Il fu Mattia Pascal

Place: Teatro Gioiello. Address: Via Cristoforo Colombo, 31, Torino, TO, Italy. Organizer: Teatro Gioiello. End: 22:30 By Luigi Pirandello With Giorgio Marchesi Direction Giorgio Marchesi · Simonetta Solder Production Teatro Ghione «I can say that since then I have taken pleasure in laughing at all my misfortunes and every one of my torments». It was precisely the words that Pirandello has his protagonist say that suggested to us the key to telling the story of Mattia Pascal. We wanted to experiment with a language that is accessible and appealing to everyone, especially younger generations. With the aim of moving away from the dusty view wrongly associated with some literary masterpieces, we chose a vital, dynamic and amused point of view of “this truly strange case”. «I will transform myself with patient study so that, in the end, I may be able to say not only that I lived twice, but that I was two different men». Pascal therefore seems to ask not only for another chance, as we all often dream of starting over or correcting the mistakes of the past. But he also wants to “inhabit” another person, new, different, unknown. From these two sentences came the idea