The great magic

Calogero Di Spelta, a betrayed husband, with his mania for control and his inability to love and trust, becomes a mirror of contemporary man's challenges and difficulties in the area of relationships.

A man driven by obsessive feeling, lost in a world that seems equally confused, with a constant need to cling to granitic certainties, at the cost of symbolically locking them up in a box.

A closed place interpreted by Di Spelta as a safe place, a second prison as a solution for his relationship, to defeat his own fears, uncertainties and obsessions that permeate our modern society. 

On the other hand, Otto Marvuglia, magician and manipulator, a character less “sweet” in writing than he is on stage when softened by interpretation by Eduardo himself.

The Marvuglia/illusion, the Marvuglia/reality, and the Marvuglia/imposter are the ever-changing and interchangeable faces that change the context and Girolamo Di Spelta's perception of reality; a continuous short-circuit ensues that confuses the plane of illusion with that of reality, destabilizing the characters themselves and the spectators.

Lost are the characters, lost are the spectators, lost are the men and women of today, lost in relationships, lost in the continuous blending of the true and the false. What is true? What is false?

LA GRANDE MAGIA | THE GREAT MAGIC

by Eduardo De Filippo

directed by Gabriele Russo

with Natalino Balasso and Michele Di Mauro

and with (in alphabetical order) Veronica D'Elia, Gennaro Di Biase, Christian di Domenico, Maria Laila Fernandez, Alessio Piazza, Manuel Severino, Sabrina Scuccimarra, Alice Spisa, Anna Rita Vitolo

set design Roberto Crea

light design  Pasquale Mari

costume design  Giuseppe Avallone

music and sound project Antonio Della Ragione

production Fondazione Teatro di Napoli - Teatro Bellini, Teatro Biondo Palermo, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT/ Teatro Nazionale