April 4-6 and 11-13 Arca’s Teatro will host “Il Padrone” (The Master)
A readaptation by Paolo Cossu and Rosario Giglio
featuring:
Peppe Carosella, Francesca Colapietro, Nicola Galiero, Rosario Giglio, Patrizia Masiello, Loretta Palo, Marcello Raimondi, Alberto Tortora, Feerica Totaro, Gabriella Varriale
directed by
Rosario Giglio
Director’s Note. “Il Padrone”(The Master)
Why “Il Padrone”?
When you approach a classic text and its adaptation, you realize that there are a thousand other possibilities for understanding its content.
And working on an author such as Molière, you become more and more convinced that his “classicism” is great because his “timeliness” is great.
In the original text, Moliere developed the famous Plautine comedy that mocked avarice, placing the emphasis – a forerunner in his time – on the nascent usury in French society.
A topic more current than ever.
But in our “Il Padrone” we wanted to place the emphasis on the moral and, why not, spiritual aridity of Don Arpagone: “..of all men he is the least human”, “…Don Arpagone is Don Arpagone and with the name we have said it all.” In fact, this is what some lines of the comedy say.
“Il Padrone” is therefore not just a miser in love and obsessed with his money. He is – precisely – a master, who must possess the lives of others in order to then achieve his interest.
And the characters who follow him are nothing but products of his own aridity. They too are ultimately sterile, ready to beat him with his own weapons, to give him the same coin.
Who knows if ultimately even “Il Padrone” is not the product of the desperation he experiences in his time and that his greed is nothing but a weapon to overcome the distance from feelings.
This is one of the keys to reading the adaptation, which respects the lively theatrical machine and the comic mechanisms, also wants, with a smile, to make us perceive the drama hidden within the original text.
Rosario Giglio
