Carlo Buccirosso is a respectable Italian in the ‘Scrapping’ at the Quirino in Rome

Already floating in the crisis is not easy, paying debts is even less so, fighting against Equitalia and the Revenue Agency is a ‘business’ also in the commercial sense of the term: but if, then, it is unleashed against even the mother-in-law, then survive to the daily war without becoming a wreck of society borders on the famous ‘mission impossible’ … Yet, it is the game of massacre from which the protagonist of ‘Scrapping an Italian for good’, specifically a restaurateur of a suburban trattoria, played by Carlo Buccirosso, who is also the author and director of the comedy staged from tomorrow to 5 December at the Quirino theater in Rome. Everything revolves around the figure of Alberto Pisapia, “a man now on the verge of bankruptcy – explains Buccirosso in the director’s notes – married to a sanguine woman with a combative character, the father of an anarchic and irascible daughter and a son who is all The protagonist of the comedy has been living for years in a situation of great psychological distress, which in recent times has taken on the shape of a real nervous breakdown “. Due to the economic crisis in the country and its restaurant business, but also to following a series of reckless investments, “he finds himself having to fight a personal and desperate battle against the merciless attacks of Equitalia, which with inexorable precision hits him almost daily in the quiet of his home, mortgaged for some time, with tax bills of all types, of all kinds, of various shapes and textures “. And, moreover, this ‘war’ has another enemy staff: the mother-in-law, an upright official of the Revenue Agency: “the wickedness of this woman – the author continues – is an indestructible cancer that not even medicine more avant-garde would have been able to eradicate “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)