An irresistible jam session of laughter, featuring great TV comedians from the “Genoese school.” In one sentence, this is the essence of Bruciabaracche. A show, always different, that attracted 500 people to the hall each week to watch two hours in which tried-and-true TV characters and new performances alternated, in a continuous interchange of comedy between the members of the lineup.
Eight artists and one television author, who divide their time between theater, cabaret and television (Zelig, Colorado and other famous programs), all extremely well known to the general public. In strict order: Antonio Ornano, Enzo Paci, Andrea Possa and Marco Rinaldi (i Soggetti Smarriti), Andrea Carlini, Andrea Di Marco, Daniele Raco, Daniele Ronchetti (Gabri Gabra) , coordinated at the author level by Graziano Cutrona and for the organizational part by Arianna Traverso. The Bruciabaracche Live Show was staged every Friday starting in the 2013-2014 season. What was meant to be little more than an experiment, a way to catch up with old friends and colleagues, turned out to be a resounding success right away. More than 500 people filled the cabaret every Friday night, soon becoming a landmark for the Genoese theater scene.
After the closure of the historic venue Bluemoon, where the group performed until May 2016, the group was forced to move to another location of adequate capacity, not an easy task in a city like Genoa, stingy with spaces and with an audience that is highly accustomed and unaccustomed to moving from the center to the suburbs. The move for the 2016/2017 season to the dockworkers’ club, the Luigi Rum Hall, has decreed the Bruciabaracche’s acclaimed success, selling out almost all of its weekly performances and necessitating two extraordinary repeats of the season finale to satisfy audience demands.
In the summer seasons, the show has now become a regular fixture of the “Ridere d’Agosto” Review at Genoa’s Porto Antico, where it has always sold out, in the last two years, even at the Sea Arena with more than 1,400 people even willing to stand. This magnificent response, also recorded at two other one-night shows in Vado Ligure and Acqui Terme, has prompted the Bruciabaracche to take on a new challenge: the Bruciabaracche Live Show is in fact ready to confront new squares, to take the Ligurian comedy school around Italy.
Since May 2018, the Bruciabaracche have moved their dates to the prestigious Politeama Genovese, already recording 14 shows in the season, all SOLD OUT.
The Artists
Enzo Paci was born in Genoa in 1973; in 2000 he graduated from the acting school of the Teatro Stabile of Genoa. Over the years he takes part in numerous shows in the theater but at the same time pursues his passion for cabaret by participating in 2002 in the comedy club of Genoa, then landing on television in shows such as Central Station, Copernico, Zelig and Colorado. Alternating between monologues and characters such as: Mattia Passadore and Marisa, Mattia’s mother, Enzo Paci offers genuine comedy telling a grotesque world at times comic.
Andrea Di Marco, a trumpet graduate, has been a member of the musical comedy group Rotten Horses led by Claudio Rufus Nocera since 1996. On television, he has participated as an actor-musician in Gregorio Paolini’s programs Ciro il figlio di Target, Fabio Fazio’s Serenate and Palcoscenico edited by Felice Cappa; he is among the authors and performers of the radio program Cavalli Marci in treno, broadcast on Radio Italia Network. He has to his credit numerous theatrical tours in some of the main rtalian theaters. As a “soloist” he participated in the season of Colorado Cafe and since 2013 he has been in Zelig.
Antonio Ornano, was born in La Spezia and moved to Genoa when he was 10 years old. After graduating from classical high school, he graduated in law. During the same years he cultivated a passion for theater, attending a workshop; between a Richard III and other plays about Pavese and Allan Poe, he met those who would become his friends and fellow ramblers. With them he will found a theater company and begin to produce and perform plays and short films. He attends the Zelig laboratory in Genoa, where he fine-tunes his famous characters: Space Cacae, aka Mimmo Cacace, Franco Prunes, Ignatius, Prof. Tommaselli and many others. On TV he is famous for programs such as Scorie and Centrai Station, Zelig Off, Zelig, Zelig Circus, and Zelig Event.
Born in Savona in 1972, Daniele Raco in addition to being a comedian, a professional musician and bluesman, is above all a thoroughbred monolographer. His shows focus on satire of manners, appealing to what we can call “the common sense of humor.” For several years now he has been treading the stages of the most important clubs and cabaret venues throughout Italy, also being appreciated for his participation in TV shows such as Zelig off, Zelig TV (aired on Channel 5), Ci vediamo su Rai Uno, Mai dire domenica, Comedy Club. He has also participated in some feature films, such as Carlo Mazzacurati’s La sedia della fortuna.
Andrea Carlini was born in Genoa in 1981 and began acting at the age of 14 in several amateur companies.
At the age of 18 he founded the theater company Buio in Scena in which he held the roles of president, actor, director, trovarobe, siparista and often also paying audience member. After 10 years on the theater stage, in 2007 he decided to make the big leap to cabaret by joining the Zelig Workshop in Genoa. On TV he has participated in Central Station and Copernico on Comedy Central, in Zelig Off, Zelig Circus and Zelig Event with the Bear Teddy characters and with the Poor Savior sketches (paired with Alessandro Squillace).
Daniele Ronchetti was born in Genoa in 1983. A borderline monologuist, on stage he deals with issues concerning youth, music, tattoos, work and the superficiality of doing it. He mainly plays the character of Gabri Gabra. He participates with his character in Tecniche Perfette, the most important freestyle rap festival (risking lynching!). In 2008 he won the Popular Jury Award at the ‘Bologna Cabaret’ Festival. Since September 2009, he has been the rapper of the show Colorado Cafe on Italia 1 and starred in the sitcom “Dinner of Cretins” on Comedy Central in 2012.
