“Pirandello 3 – Pirandello Journey in three acts”. This is the title of the final evening
of the XVI theater review “Lo Stagnone – scenes from a show” – organized by the “Sipario” theater company chaired by Vito Scarpitta, with the patronage and participation of the Municipality of Marsala.
On Saturday 4 May at 9.30 pm on the stage of the Impero theater the events narrated in the works will come to life: “La Morsa”, “La patente” and “The man with the flower in his mouth” with an exceptional interpreter: Corrado Tedeschi who will be protagonist together with Vito Scarpitta. Also on stage: Giuseppe Todaro, Davide Maltese, Francesco Di Bernardo, Enza Giacalone, Serena Tumbarello and Max Vacante.
“La Morsa – explains director Vito Scarpitta – deals with the classic triangle of wife, lover and husband. The protagonist of the love affair is Giulia, a sincere and passionate woman, who finds herself at the epilogue of her adulterous relationship with her lover Antonio. Andrea, her older husband, has discovered the two lovers and wants to take revenge on them both by squeezing Giulia in a vice of accusations. He begins a close and increasingly pressing dialogue with Giulia. Andrea pretends at first to be unaware of everything, but with a game of allusions and half-words, suddenly, even though he too was ultimately guilty of having neglected her, he spits the whole truth in her face and violently pressures his wife who, overwhelmed and astonished, she is unable to defend herself against her husband’s accusations.
Giulia also lacks the support of her lover Antonio who cowardly abandons her and is left alone in the face of Andrea’s desire for revenge, who kicks her out of the house, forbidding her from seeing her children for the last time. When Giulia, who also says she continues to love him, desperately threatens to kill herself, to her indifference he incites her to do so.” A work that involves and transports spectators with the narrative force of Luigi Pirandello.
In “La Patente” – continues Scarpitta – “the protagonists of the tragicomic story are: Rosario Chiarchiaro, an employee of the pawn shop, who, according to people’s rumours, is a Jettator who finds himself, despite himself, excluded from society, and judge D ‘Andrea who doesn’t believe in the Jettatura at all, but finds himself, as a rational man, having to keep in mind that Chiarchiaro has also lost his job due to the gossips, he is unable to marry his daughters because, in fact, the Jettatore’s daughters and that due to this reputation, the whole family is at risk. He denounces two young people (the son of the Mayor and councilor Fazio) who allegedly made the typical anti-Jella gesture when he passed, that of the horns in his direction, to ward off bad luck. The situation is truly absurd and gets even worse when Chiarchiaro, summoned to court to give his version of the facts, shows up dressed as a Jettatore and forcefully calls for a trial, loudly asking for the official Jettatore license complete with tax for making it his profession, Chiarchiaro explains that if the world has imposed a mask on him, against his will, he is able to accept it and make it his own and go to the end in order to obtain the right economic gain from it. Judge D’Andrea, astonished and disconcerted, can only agree: Chiarchiaro will be a jinxed and tragicomic municipal employee for everyone, even a paid one as long as he doesn’t cause evil to the rest of the citizens.”
Finally, the organizer of the event concludes: “In The Man with the Flower in his Mouth whose protagonist is Corrado Tedeschi, it is highlighted how man tries to face death. He highlights how death is predominant, he manages to change anything, even the personal vision of the world. In the face of death, even small things begin to have immense importance. In a small train station, at night – says Scarpitta -, two men wait for the train in a bar, talking about common, almost everyday topics, such as the delay as a result of which the train was missed, or the purchases they had to make at respective wives or even the elegance that the clerks had in wrapping the gifts, but one of these has death “on him” that gnaws at him and takes the shape of a woman who appears like a shadow to the condemned man. She is the bourgeois wife of the man with the flower in his mouth, who has little time left to live. Her doctor diagnosed him with an epithelioma, hidden under her lip like a “beautiful purple tuber” and fatal.
For information, reservations and presales you can call the numbers 320.8011864 – 338.2615790 or contact the Pro Loco in via XI Maggio or at I Viaggi dello Stagnone, in via Dei Mille n. 45. tel. 0923.956105 or also online at https://www.liveticket.it/compagniateatralesipario
