Sabato, domenica e lunedì (Saturday, Sunday and Monday)

One of the greatest masterpieces of Eduardo De Filippo's theatre is on stage at the Argentina Theater with Sabato, domenica e lunedì (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday), directed by Luca De Fusco.

The three-act comedy, written and performed in 1959 by Eduardo De Filippo and included in the Cantata dei giorni dispari (Cantata of Odd Days), represents the most bourgeois work by the great Neapolitan author, in which the family is the true protagonist and where everything stems from a slight misunderstanding between the couple, which however masks the crisis in their marriage. In the comedy, the author considers what could still be seen in the 1950s and 1960s as a large Neapolitan family, where three different generations - grandparents, children, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles and servants, - live together happily, seemingly without conflict, in the large apartment of Peppino Priore, a wealthy textile merchant. A family still "old-fashioned," then, yet one where signs of crisis are evident, especially in the couple at the centre of the comedy. In the end, the Priore family does not crumble, because it is still a traditional family, in which solidarity and affection are not lacking. As the author himself says, to resolve family crises, all it takes is talking and clarifying the conflict; the work concludes with Rosa and Peppino's reconciliation and the inevitable happy ending.

With Teresa Saponangelo, Claudio Di Palma, Pasquale Aprile, Alessandro Balletta, Anita Bartolucci, Francesco Biscione, Paolo Cresta, Rossella De Martino, Renato De Simone, Antonio Elia, Maria Cristina Gionta, Gianluca Merolli, Alessandra Pacifico Griffini, Paolo Serra, and Mersila Sokoli.

Photo: by Tommaso de Pera