Sixth appointment for the 2023-2024 theater season of the Teatro Cilea in Naples with Enzo Decaro who from January 25 to 28 will be on stage with the show “Non è vero ma ci credo” by Peppino De Filippo.
Four dates for the theatrical return of Enzo Decaro who, with Massimo Troisi and Lello Arena, was among the protagonists of the new Neapolitan school of modern comedy. Until La Smorfia, Neapolitan comedy was the prerogative of artists of the caliber of Totò, Nino Taranto and Peppino De Filippo, author of this comedy that Decaro will bring for the first time on the stage of the renowned Vomero theater. The show entitled “Non è vero ma ci credo” is directed by Leo Muscato who began his career in Luigi De Filippo's company.
On stage (in oa) Carlo Di Maio, Roberto Fiorentino, Carmen Landolfi, Massimo Pagano, Gina Perna, Giorgio Pinto, Ciro Ruoppo, Fabiana Russo, Ingrid Sansone.
The sets are by Luigi Ferrigno, the costumes are by Chicca Ruocco and the lighting design is by Pietro Sperduti.
“It's not true but I believe it” is a show directed by Leo Muscato who debuted with the company of Luigi De Filippo, who passed away in 2018. Together – says Decaro – we wanted to pay homage to both Luigi and Peppino De Filippo who was the original author. In this tragicomedy all to laugh at, superstition reigns supreme. Personally - continues Decaro - I am so little superstitious that, in fact, I believe that being so brings bad luck. The show is a war machine of comedy where the authors emphasize the damage that can arise from the exasperation of a belief; from superstition which is a tare of ignorance passed down from generation to generation, capable in some cases of turning into a nightmare not only for those who are superstitious but also for those around them. The show is transported from the setting of the twenties to the 80s respecting the canons of Neapolitan tradition but giving it a contemporary flavor – concludes the actor – carrying forward the objectives of Luigi De Filippo: reuniting the genius of his father Peppino with the truth comedy of his uncle Eduardo”.
SYNOPSIS
The show respects the canons of the Neapolitan theater tradition, but with a more contemporary flavor. The story is a tragedy to laugh at, populated by a series of characters with unlikely names and who are somehow modern versions of the masks of the commedia dell'arte. The protagonist of this story is very similar to some of Molière's characters.
The miserly, very miserly entrepreneur Gervasio Savastano lives in the constant nightmare of being a victim of jinx. His life has become a real hell because he sees ominous signs everywhere: in the people he meets, in the correspondence he finds on his desk, in the dreams he has at night. Perhaps he fears that someone or something could threaten the economic empire he has managed to set up with so much sacrifice. Anything, even the most banal, sends him into a crisis. Those around him no longer know how to approach him. His wife and daughter are on the verge of a nervous breakdown; they cannot leave the house because he prevents them. Even his employees are tired of tolerating those absurd obsessive manias. At a certain point his obsessions cross the threshold of the ridiculous: he fires his employee Malvurio just because he is convinced that he brings bad luck. The man threatens to report him, take him to court and file a lawsuit for slander. It seems like the preamble to a tragedy, but we are in a comedy that will make you die of laughter.
And in fact, on the threshold of his office appears Sammaria, a young man looking for work. He seems intelligent, jovial and prepared, but Commendator Savastano is attracted by another quality of that young man: his hunchback. From here begins a series of paradoxical and hilarious events that will see at the center of the story the credulity of poor Commendator Savastano.
Peppino De Filippo had set his story in the somewhat oleographic Naples of the 30s. In a more current version by his son Luigi De Filippo, however, the setting was about twenty years later. We will follow this intuition of his, bringing the action even closer to the present day, setting the story in a Naples of the 80s, a somewhat tragicomic and surreal Naples in which Mario Merola, Pino Daniele and Maradona lived together. The show conceived with a hyperbolic rhythm will condense the entire story into a single act of 90 minutes.
tickets:
January 25th Theater €25, Gallery €21 + d.p. Start at 21pm
January 26th Theater €30, Gallery €25 + d.p. Start at 21pm
January 27th Theater €30, Gallery €25 + d.p. Start at 21pm
January 28th Theater €30, Gallery €25 + d.p. Start at 18pm
Presale https://teatrocilea.it/spettacoli/enzo-decaro/
Article published on 22 January 2024 - 17:07