After years of closure, the Parioli Theater reopens in Rome

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The season designed by the director Maccarinelli starts after Christmas with the ‘Mistero Buffo’ by Fo-Rame and continues with Nancy Brilli, Chiara Noschese, Ale & Franz, Glauco Mauri and Roberto Sturno, Filippo Dini and Valerio Binasco, Lina Sastri, Enzo Decaro, Stefano Fresi and Toni Fornari

“Are the madmen who have decided to open a theater“. This is how the new ‘patrons’ of Parioli theater in Rome – known, if only for its name, by tens of millions of Italian viewers because it was from here that the ‘Maurizio Costanzo Show’ – which after years of closure reopens to the public, with a season that will officially start the day after Christmas to close in mid-May.

The new one draws the bill for the first season of the reopening artistic director, director Piero Maccarinelli: “It will be a season that will see art theater and entertainment theater represented, both linked by the quality of the proposed texts and by the directorial and actor quality”, he assures by presenting the ‘lineup’ of the shows, after thanking the Mic and the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini “for the commitment made and maintained on full capacity in theaters, starting today, hoping that it will be a beneagurante sign …”.

It starts on December 26 with ‘Mistero Buffo’ by Dario Fo and Franca Rame which will re-propose the medieval and popular atmosphere embodied by the jester Matthias Martelli; to continue with the pair of twins in perennial contrast “even before being born” formed by Nancy Brilli and Chiara Noschese for ‘Manola’, the text written by Margaret Mazzantini, who at the debut was also an actress directed by Sergio Castellitto. So male couples with Filippo Dini and Valerio Binasco per ‘Spank’, Ale & Franz for ‘Comincium’, Glauco Mauri and Roberto Sturno for Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s ‘Enigmatic Variations’.

After the double homage to Naples and the De Filippo with Lina Sastri in her ‘Eduardo mio’ of which she is the author, director and performer and with Enzo Decaro in the comedy ‘It’s not true but I believe it’ by Peppino De Filippo, the season ends with ‘Cetra … once’ with Toni Fornari, Emanuela and Stefano Fresi, directed by Augusto Fornari. The program is then completed with two special events: ‘La Mafia’ from a text by Don Luigi Sturzo dated 1900 directed by Piero Maccarinelli; And ‘The lesson at the theater’ for the project produced by Artisti Riuniti: both proposals aim to involve a young audience, for a sort of ‘parallel’ season.

(by Enzo Bonaiuto)

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