FORBICI & FOLLIA di Paul Pörtner

The calm gossip life of the Forbici&Follia salon is interrupted by the murder of the old pianist who lives upstairs. Two undercover police officers are there to arrest the culprit ... How??? With the help of the audience, of course!

FORBICI & FOLLIA
by Paul Pörtner
original American production by Bruce Jordan and Marylin Abrams
Italian version by Marco Rampoldi, Gianluca Ramazzotti

with Max Pisu, Nino Formicola, Giancarlo Ratti
and with Lucia Marinsalta, Roberta Petrozzi, Giorgio Verduci

Direction Marco Rampoldi
Set Design Alessandro Chiti
Costumes Adele Bargilli

Production by ArtistiAssociati - Centro di produzione teatrale
in collaboration with RARA produzione duti

Synopsis
Forbici & Follia tells the story of a day, like any other, in a hair salon located where the show takes place. Rather... on the day the show takes place. The day when the calm life of gossip, flowing happily between the advances of the hairdresser to male clients, and the small dreams of his assistant - who may have a relationship with a misunderstood antique dealer - is interrupted by the murder of the old pianist who lives upstairs and is the owner of the entire building. But, plot twist, everyone present has a motive that would justify the crime, and they had the opportunity to commit it. It turns out that, in reality, two clients are undercover police officers and they must arrest the culprit ... how? With the collaboration of the spectators/eyewitnesses, who can solve the mystery thanks to what they have seen happen, and the questions they will know how to ask.

Forbici & Follia is a show with two opposing natures that strengthen each other: that of the detective story, which must lead to understanding who the killer is, and that of comedy, which arises from the interaction with the audience (who is never forced to participate) which becomes progressively passionate, until becoming the only possible judge.

Forbici & Follia returns in the version staged ten years ago by Marco Rampoldi, who relies on actors with the double nature of prose and cabaret, in order to support the rigor of the story and the freshness of improvisation; and for this return, Max Pisu and Nino Formicola, who in these years have further refined their acting nature, also teaming up as a comic duo in the very successful "Dinner with Friends", debut as possible culprits alongside the ambiguously mysterious Giancarlo Ratti, Lucia Marinsalta, Roberta Petrozzi, and Giorgio Verduci giving support to the commissioner.

A show that is a dynamic explosion, absolutely different every night.

THEATRICAL SEASON 2024/25
GRANDINETTI COMMUNAL THEATER OF CATANZARO
Web: www.amaeventi.org/stcz2425/