“Tararà” is the show, scheduled for June 28th, at 6pm, in Agrigento, at the Circolo Empedocleo, which will make the theatrical adaptation of some of Luigi Pirandello’s novels more accessible to the international public. Created for the 157th anniversary of the birth of the great playwright (28 June 1867) and in view of Agrigento being the Italian Capital of Culture 2025, the show is part of the project called “Pirandello in Agrigento”, carried out by Professor Enza De Francisci of the University of Glasgow in collaboration with the Pirandello Stable Festival theater company, directed by Mario Gaziano.
The innovation consists in the need to make Luigi Pirandello’s works in the Sicilian language more accessible to an English-speaking public, even before the 2025 celebrations. The project, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council with the University of Glasgow and The Society for Italian Studies, focuses in particular on the production of surtitles in English for the monologue Tararà, with passages adapted from “The truth”, “A birritta cu’ i ciancianeddi (The rattle cap)”, and “The game of roles”.
The tools made available for the show via a link (https://translatingpirandello.gla.ac.uk/en/) represent a communication model that can be replicated in the future and aimed at safeguarding languages at risk of extinction.
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The show is free to enter. The direction is by Mario Gaziano; protagonist is Giuseppe Gramaglia with the participation of Maria Grazia Castellana and the folk trio Riccardo Cacicia.
The surtitles are created by professor Enza De Francisci and researcher Ruggero Bianchin. The show is created in collaboration with the Valle dei Templi Tourist District.
De Francisci, of Agrigento origins, is a lecturer in Translation Studies in the United Kingdom, directs a Master’s degree at Nankai University in China, and was a linguistic consultant for the theatrical production of “Liolà” at the National Theater in London.
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