Luca De Filippo brings to the stage and interprets the Edwardian comedy "The great magic" at the Bellini Theater
Il Bellini Theater of Naples inaugurated as announced, the new theater season 2013 / 2014 bringing the show on stage The great magic, a text written and interpreted by Eduardo De Filippo, and now taken over by his son Luca.
The comedy in three acts, written in the 1948 and inserted in the series of works entitled The cantata of odd days, is one of the least represented eduardiane works, staged only by the same Eduardo and Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan from the 1985.
Luca De Filippo and his company propose The great magic to continue the in-depth study on Eduardo's dramaturgy started in 2012, dropping the choice on this comedy which, as Luca himself tells:
“It is the least represented, because at its debut it did not receive the consent of the public. By the time she was staged, early 50s, she was perhaps too avant-garde and was not accepted. So Eduardo moved on to other texts and this left him a bit on the sidelines "
The plot revolves around the figure of the magician Marvuglia, a magician who puts on traveling shows by performing cheap tricks. He will find an opportunity to show his "Great magic" making the wife of a rich bourgeois disappear to allow her to escape with her lover. She will then convince the jealous man that his wife has not disappeared but she is hidden in a box. Only if he accepts the betrayal and has full confidence in her fidelity and in her return will he be able to open her and see her again. On the real return of the woman, Calogero rejects her, not wanting to believe in a cheating wife and deluding himself that she is still there inside her, still in love with him ...
The sense of comedy lies in the relationship between fiction and reality, between the world of theater and that of spectators, a theme of "Pirandello" memory, which brings to mind another "Edwardian" magician Sik Sik is the magic maker, but much more cunning and more disturbing to do ...
As Luca De Filippo himself confirmed:
It is an evident reflection on how the human being tries not to look reality in the face in order to close himself in his illusion. The reality is too difficult to bear and manage. But it is also a clear metaphor for the magic of the theater, an illusion par excellence on the stage
Information on the show The great magic
When: from 25 October to 3 November 2013
Price tickets:
- Tuesday: I place 20 euros; II place 15 euro; III place 12 euro
- Wednesday Thursday friday: I place 25 euro (full), 22 euro (reduced); II place 20 euro (full), 18 euro (reduced); III place 17 euro (full), 15 euro (reduced)
- Saturday and Sunday: I place 30 euros; II place 25 euro; III place 20 euro
Where: Bellini Theater, via Conte di Ruvo 14, Naples
