LA LUNA NEL LETTO

THE NEW SUIT

  • 20 March 2020 - 15:00 Teatro Comunale - Series Under Stage
  • 21 March 2020 - 21:00 Teatro Comunale - Series A
  • 22 March 2020 - 16:00 Teatro Comunale - Series E
by

Eduardo De Filippo / Luigi Pirandello

with

Marco Manchisi, Nunzia Antonino, Salvatore Marci, Vittorio Continelli, Annarita De Michele, Paolo Gubello, Dante Manchisi, Olga Mascolo, Antonella Ruggiero, Luigi Tagliente

direction, scenery and lighting

Michelangelo Campanale

music

Giuseppe Verdi

costumes

Maria Pascale

production Compagnia La Luna nel Letto Associazione culturale “Tra il dire il fare” Residenza di Ruvo di Puglia – Teatri Abitati
in collaboration with Sistema Garibaldi

Performance running time
105 mins without interval

In 1935 De Filippo and Pirandello crowned their artistic collaboration with The New Suit-L’Abito Nuovo, which was staged in 1937 at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. At the centre, the figure of the clerk Michele Crispucci, forced to choose whether to follow the path that fate indicates to him or lose his integrity. The lucid insanity that governs Crispucci’s choices makes him a sort of contemporary hero who fights against the obsessive attachment of man to things. A harsh, sharp text for its time, today however, illuminatingly relevant.