The season at the Manzoni in Rome, Quattrini and Galiena among the artists on stage

Nine shows on the bill, one of which is still being defined, for the new season of the Manzoni theater in Rome, which will open on 30 September and close on 12 June. The first to raise the curtain will be ‘The tenant of the upper floor’, a comedy by Pierre Chesnot with Pietro Longhi and Paola Tiziana Cruciani as protagonists. ‘Slot’ will follow from 26 October with Paola Barale and Paola Quattrini, an actress who with the monologue ‘Today is already tomorrow’ had cut the ribbon on the stage last May, after the forced closure of the theater due to anti-Covid measures. Last show of 2021 will be ‘Money, no!’ from 25 November with the couple formed by Corinne Clery and Enzo Casertano, while the new theatrical year will open on 4 January with ‘La divina Sarah’ by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, interpreted by Anna Galiena and Stefano Santospago. Pietro Longhi will return on January 27 together with Caterina Vertova for ‘Happy birthday, commander’, while the show that will debut at Manzoni on February 24th is still to be defined.The season will then continue from March 24 with ‘Sexy and undecided’ and the couple at female formed by Patrizia Pellegrino and Milena Miconi. From 21 April it will be the turn of Marco Marzocca and Stefano Sarcinelli with ‘Two days a week, while the curtain will close on the comedy by Roberto D’Alessandro with the duo Nicola Pistoia and Enzo Casertano for’ Matrimonio all’italiana ‘. All this, as the slogan of the bill says, for “the pleasure of going to the theater”. (By Enzo Bonaiuto)