With the return to 100% of the capacity of the available seats, the billboard of the great prose, prepared by the Cedac with the support of the Sardinian Region, the Municipality of Cagliari, the Foundation of Sardinia and the artistic direction of Valeria Ciabattoni, continues to offer great titles. interest.
In the welcoming stalls of the Teatro Massimo, which from January 1st will be, for at least two years, the home of the theater season, designed more than 40 years ago by Antonio Cabiddu, patron of the association, in synergy with Massimo Palmas' Jazz in Sardinia and the Multidisciplinary Circuit of Live Entertainment in Sardinia, the third appointment arrives with a best seller of classical theater, "Il Tartufo" by Molière: the ambiguous charm of virtue for a vivid and merciless fresco of various humanity.
The famous comedy by one of the most beloved authors will be on the bill from tonight, Wednesday 10 November, until Sunday 14 with a very intense program given the numerous requests from the public.
The show can be attended every day at 20.30 until Saturday and Sunday at 19, while on Friday at 16.30 there will also be an afternoon replica.
In the spotlight Giuseppe Cederna in the role of the disturbing protagonist, a dangerous seducer, almost a "nonconformist prophet" or rather a "fanatic guru" who like a "dark angel" or a "pitiful demon" bursts into the house of a rich bourgeois and upsets it the fragile balances, alongside Vanessa Gravina, who plays the enigmatic Elmira and Roberto Valerio - who also signs the direction - in the role of Orgone, the first victim of the deception, almost struck by the revelations of that master in the art of fiction who became the symbol of hypocrisy.
In the cast also Massimo Grigò (Cleante, brother-in-law of Orgone, but also the waiter Lorenzo), Irene Pagano (Marianna, the daughter of Orgone), Elisabetta Piccolomini (Madama Pernella, mother of Orgone and also as the landlord bewitched by the perfidious deceiver), Roberta Rosignoli (the waitress Dorina) and Luca Tanganelli (Damide, son of Orgone and potential "rival" of Tartufo in the struggle for the inheritance) who lend face and voice to the characters of an intriguing and effective "family portrait "between roughness and contrasts, hopes and secrets.
The piece, in the interesting mise en scène of the Pistoiese Theater Association / Theater Production Center, touches on a crucial theme in today's civilization of appearing, emphasizing the contrast between the high moral qualities publicly displayed by the guest and his real intentions, underlining the dissonance between the imperturbability of a mask and the intertwining of ambition, greed and lust that are hidden behind that image of external perfection.
An emblematic story projected in the middle of the twentieth century, between respectability and materialism, with the evocative sets by Giorgio Gori and the colorful costumes by Lucia Mariani, in a dramatic crescendo, underlined by the lighting design by Emiliano Pona and the careful sound direction by Alessandro Saviozzi , where the farce turns almost into tragedy, revealing its surprising relevance even today.
"Tartufo" is a bittersweet comedy about undeniable human frailty in which Molière lashes out against hypocrisy, so much so as to arouse harsh reactions and attempts at censorship, but which results for the precise delineation of the characters and the refined theatrical mechanism, between pathos and blows scene, absolutely enjoyable and "credible" even in the grotesque tones even in a careful reinterpretation in an almost contemporary key, in which the amorality of the protagonist is confirmed, once again, in every era, in all its sulphurous power , beyond Good and Evil.
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