Simone Montedoro and Toni Fornari explain Rome ‘Ar bar de la Storia’ at the Golden theater

It is true that history is a teacher of life, but it is also true that it does not always have students who are attentive and willing to learn its lessons … perhaps also for this reason it repeats itself, very often with its mistakes and even with its tragedies. . “Ar bar de la Storia” – as the title is the musical comedy written by several hands by Andrea Maia, Vincenzo Sinopoli and Toni Fornari and staged at the Golden theater in Rome until April 24 by Toni Fornari himself, who also signs the direction , and by Simone Montedoro, flanked by Emanuela Fresi and Claudia Campagnola – wants to describe “an ordinary day that turns into something else, thanks to an unusual discussion that becomes the pretext to tell historical facts and anecdotes through the history of Italy and of Rome “, as explained in the director’s notes. In the bar run by the character played by the actress sister of Stefano Fresi, composer of the original music, a lazy bartender and disillusioned with life, the regulars are a lazy worker and a bit mythomaniac who has the face of Toni Fornari and a ‘ an elderly and braggart beefsteak played by Simone Montedoro, as well as a cynical and savvy ‘forced’, as well as a group of boys who enjoy making fun of these unlikely adult masters but who then also listens to their stories and chronicles that go beyond all eras, since we start from Adam and Eve to get to Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America – with a quote from the poem by Cesare Pascarella – we start from fascism and we get to Francesco Totti and therefore nowadays, for a sort of generational clash between historical facts and modern stories, mixed with the typical ‘bar chatter’. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)