2023-05-08 16:26:44
The artistic director Guglielmo Ferro: “A new course opens” – Among the performers on stage Haber, Papaleo, Insegno, Ranzi, Solfrizzi, Guerritore, Benvenuti, Ovadia, Guarneri, Pattavina, Solenghi, Pozzi, Marcorè, Vukotic
“Being superstitious is ignorant, but not being so is bad luck…”. It opens under the aegis of this motto between the absurd and the oxymoron coined by Edward De Filippo the new 2023-2024 season of quirino theaterpresented by its artistic director William Iron and by the managing director Rosario Coppolino, with the directors, actors and actresses protagonists on the stage dominated by the photograph of a large clove of garlic, “which seasones well and promotes health”, as the leaders of the room in via delle Vergini wish in Rome. A new course opens, no longer signed by Geppy Gleijeses, with the trust, which borders on the certainty on the part of the theater management, that “the Quirino has existed in Rome for more than 150 years and we want to carry it forward, so that it is also present for the next 100 or 200 years”.
As per tradition, the program offers shows with great authors for great actors and actresses, between the more classic repertoire and that linked to contemporary dramaturgy, including cinematographic. It starts on October 17 with ‘Zeno’s conscience’ by Italo Svevo which will see the protagonist Alessandro Haber who assures: “I’m still reflecting on this character that I never thought I’d be asked to play, but I can’t wait to get started”. He continues with Rocco Papaleo for Nikolai Gogol’s ‘The Inspector General’ and with Pino I teach in ‘Today wed… Heartfelt condolences’, “a double show – he explains – for a couple who love each other, get married, leave each other, with a frenetic pace and with a myriad of actors who… will not be on stage or even overs”.
From the Globe – closed and seized after the collapse of a part of the structure in Villa Borghese – comes William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ directed by him Gigi Proietti“the only direction taken care of by my father – he remembers Carlotta Proietti – Let’s hope that this ‘garlic season’ does us good too, hoping to reopen the Globe as soon as possible”. Lina Wertmuller who has also signed his own theatrical adaptation now adopted by the director Marcello Cotugno.
The Quirino theater season continues with ‘The invisible husband’ by Edoardo Erba, protagonists ‘remotely’ Maria Amelia Monti and Marina Massironi for a “videocall comedy” as described by the former; with ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy with Galatea Ranzi; with ‘The duck with orange’ with Emilio Solfrizzi directed by Greg who defines the work as “a game of chess” which unites, as the leading actor observes, “the English sensibility of the author and the French one of the playwright”.
The cinematic trend continues with ‘Ginger and Fred’ from the homonymous film directed by Federico Fellini con Monica Guerritore – now engaged on the set of ‘Inganno’ for a Netflix series – and Claudio Casadio. The play ‘Falstaff a Windsor’ is freely adapted from Shakespeare’s ‘The Merry Params of Windsor’ proposed by Alexander Welcome directed by Ugo Chiti. And after Franz Kafka’s ‘Inhuman Tales’ with Giorgio Pasotti, we return to Shakespeare for an experimental ‘Othello’ for women only. Another English classic, ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ by Thomas Stearns Eliot, directed by Guglielmo Ferro and interpreted by Marianella Bargilli and Moni Ovadiawho jokes: “I, a Jew by birth and by trade, am specializing in playing Catholic saints on stage in defense of the Church. They even went as far as proposing to me to play God, but then nothing came of it, after I had asked if for me there was no better role…”.
Sicilian drama, as per the recent but consolidated tradition at the Quirino, is validly represented by ‘Storia di una capinera’ by Giovanni Verga with Henry Guarneri and from ‘Think about it Giacomino’ by Luigi Pirandello with Pippo Pattavina, both directed by Guglielmo Ferro. From Sicily we go up to Genoa, for ‘I maneggi per maritare unadaughter’, the workhorse of the dialect actor Gilberto Govi in whose shoes he now falls Tullio Solenghiflanked by Elisabetta Pozzi, for what he defines as “the realization of a youthful dream”; and with ‘The good news’ that Neri Marcorè takes from the album of Fabrizio De Andrè. It closes with ‘A spasso con Daisy’, from the homonymous film, performers Milena Vukotic and Salvatore Marino. The curtain will fall on May 5 next year, for the last repeat of a rich and intense season.
(Of Enzo Bonaiuto)
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