Da Questa Sera si Recita a Soggetto! - Paolo Rossi

From tonight we will act on subject, meaning we will improvise. So how can we predict what will happen during the show that you will see? It depends on the audience, the atmosphere, the actors, on who will choose to speak first. On subject, of course; improvised, with fixed points but without a script. We start from Pirandello's play, who in the warning placed at the beginning of the third drama of the theater within theater trilogy takes care to write in the first line: "The announcement of this comedy, in newspapers as well as in posters, must be given without the author's name." Or without his own name. And in the list of actors and actresses in the cast he puts at the forefront: "with the participation of the audience that kindly lends itself."

From this text we will start on a journey, always accompanied by the head comedian Paolo Rossi and his traveling company, on a path that is indeed Pirandellian, but also deeply current. Because on one hand Paolo speaks directly with Luigi Pirandello and lets himself be advised and carried forward in the plot, on the other hand he remains anchored to reality, and how today's more rough reality inevitably cannot help but enter into anything that is alive like the theater.

Life in the theater, therefore, but also theater in life, or rather our constant need to show ourselves performing on TV and social media. Perhaps we have all become tragicomic characters in search of an author. "But wait, if Pirandello, in order to maintain the most mysterious secret about his text, had his name removed from the poster," says Paolo Rossi, "who am I to spoil what will happen in tonight's show? I am not a fortune-teller, I am a comedian mountain-climber.
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