The premiere was scheduled for tonight, but was canceled due to health reasons for one of the two protagonists. The crackling comedy "The Invisible Husband", with Maria Amelia Monti and Marina Massironi, written and directed by Edoardo Erba, will be staged from tomorrow until Sunday at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari: every day at 8.30 pm, Sunday instead at 7 pm .
The two actresses are Fiamma and Lorella, two best friends, who converse at a distance in a game of mirrors between what happens on stage and what happens on their respective mobile phones, in what is the first videocall comedy . A story of love and friendship entrusted to the verve of the two actresses, to reflect on the change in human relationships during the lockdown and on the use of new technologies that create a filter between truth and appearance.
«I had a lot of fun playing Fiamma – says Monti – because it's a different character from those that are generally easier for me to play. Fiamma is more concrete, less bewildered, with two children, who thinks she doesn't have great expectations in life. But it has an evolution along the way. When her friend reveals that she will marry the invisible man, she thinks she's crazy, but then she too begins to have doubts».
Lorella on the other hand, adds Massironi, «is an extremely fragile woman , who has a path of painful love stories. She has always found the wrong man, but in the end she finds this perfect man who has only one flaw; it is invisible." The invisible which contains a particular fascination, «the fascination of being able to give it any meaning one wants to give it», underlines Monti, « the invisible which is many things and which does not have a single meaning. Comedy also deals with many other things, something broader, loneliness».
Acting for the first time in a videocall comedy, Massironi reveals, «made me feel very modern, very young. I have difficulty being on the phone, making video calls but technology has become part of life . On stage we never look at each other, what you see on the screen is more real». The idea of the videocall, says Monti, «came from Edoardo Erba who is also my husband, who wrote during the lockdown from the awareness that the way of communicating has changed in recent years. Since we said enough with these mobile phones, they have shown that they have helped not to remain isolated ». In Monti's future now, «there is still a lot of theater and many projects».
Marina Massironi will instead open this 2023 with the third edition of Lol which will see her among the protagonists , «but I can't say absolutely anything, only that I will participate». Looking back, on the other hand, the long collaboration with Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo «has been very important. We have worked together for 15 years. We trained together. It was very important for the comic language and to learn how to deal with three men in life as well. It was humanly important. A creative and fun period». Another film together in the future? “It may even happen. We took different paths but you never know, I'm not ruling anything out." Meanwhile in Sardinia, «I have already been with “Rosalyn” also by Edoardo Erba, but in Cagliari it is the first time and I am very happy to embrace the Sardinian public».
