Sky, the documentary on Raffaele Viviani is coming

"Long live Viviani" It's a documentary by Mario and Stefano Martone which reconstructs the artistic and human universe of one of the greatest Italian playwrights of the 900th century.

Sunday 12 March at 21.15pm on Sky Art and streaming on NOW. "Raffaele Viviani has not yet received the full recognition he deserves.", this is the driving force that drove the Martones, great-grandchildren of the artist originally from Castellammare di Stabia, to create this document.

The recomposition develops from his work, which marks a clear discontinuity with the previous theater and introduces deeply innovative characters and elements. His texts, which he sets in the alleys and squares of Naples, are full of street people who act as a universal metaphor.

Following an ideal thread between past and present, the portrait of a multifaceted and original artist and a contradictory city, scene of the world, emerges. Produced by Nephila Film, with the contribution of Regione Campania, Film Commission Regione Campania and the Ministry of Culture, the work is enriched by the precious archives of the Cineteca di Bologna, of the Rai, of the Eye Museum, of the unpublished letters from Raffaele to his wife Maria, and from the testimonies of important exponents of the national and international cultural world linked to Viviani's work, such as Alfredo Arias, Mimmo Borrelli, Davide Iodice, Mario Martone, Nello Mascia, Toni Servillo, Giuliano Longone Viviani, Valentina Venturini.

"He is the greatest author of the twentieth century, one of the greatest in Europe.", he begins BorrelliFor Martone, "there is great political power in Viviani's theatre." "If a text had to be added to Chaplin's, this text should be written by Viviani", Arias explained.

Servillo He argues that "what characterizes Viviani's figure is this dimension of fighter." The narration, punctuated by the narrative voice of Paolo Cresta and accompanied by the musical arrangements of Maria Pia De Vito, is interspersed with scenes of everyday life of our days, to testify to the contemporaneity of Viviani's theatre, and by extracts of productions from "Gypsies" ai "Ten Commandments", "Naples night and day" a "I, Raffaele Viviani."

 Raffaele Viviani for Dario Fo was a "gigantic character of our theatre". 

"His is a view from below - that does not judge and does not offer easy solutions - on the poverty of the Neapolitan people. The perspective of the excluded and marginalized, to whom he restores dignity with his poetry. and the depth they deserve despite any folkloristic interpretation", explain the authors who approached the great author from a privileged perspective.

Although it is appreciated by the public throughout Italy and also in various parts of the world, as well as by critics, it has not yet had the full recognition it deserves. An author, Raffaele Viviani, who Dario Fo he defined a "gigantic character of our theatre".