Sala Umberto in Rome restarts with ‘The system’ on malagiustizia

Justice, violence against women, feminism, mafia, homosexuality, Catholic education, emigration and immigration, marriage and divorce … It is a topical theater, the one proposed by the Sala Umberto in Rome which will raise the curtain on 21 September on a billboard dense, full of 27 proposals, presented with a long roundup by the artistic director Alessandro Longobardi – who soon announces the ‘bis’ with the seasonal program of the Brancaccio theater – after the institutional greeting of the councilor for culture of Roma Capitale, Lorenza Fruci , and the president of the first town hall of the historic center, Sabrina Alfonsi. The ‘first’ on the bill will already cause discussion, even in the strict sense given that at the end of ‘The system’ directed and interpreted by Edoardo Sylos Labini – “based on the book that uncovered the ‘Pandora’s box’ of justice in Italy, for a show not against the judiciary but against a bribery system that has influenced the politics and life of the government in our country “- there will be a debate that will see the authors of the book of the same name from which the theatrical work is based, namely the magistrate Luca Palamara and the journalist Alessandro Sallusti … We continue on September 28 with a classic by Luigi Pirandello, ‘The man, the beast and the virtue’ with the trio formed by Giorgio Colangeli, Vincenzo De Michele and Valentina Perrella. of the shows, some even for a few days, is explained by Longobardi with the capacity reduced by half due to the anti-Covid health security measures and therefore the need to increase the number of p productions or hosted to ‘fill’ the room even on weekdays, with always new proposals “but always of a high level”, the artistic director is keen to specify. Thus, artists such as Mariano Rigillo will alternate on the Roman stage in via della Mercede with a work on the poet Ezra Pound – “Unfortunately today we talk more about Casa Pound than about Ezra Pound …”, laments – Fabio Canino and his ‘Fiesta’ homage to Raffaella Carrà recently deceased, Donatella Finocchiaro with ‘Taddrarite’ ( ‘bat’ in Sicilian), Enzo Casertano with ‘We just have to laugh’, Gianluca Guidi and Giuseppe Manfridi with ‘The Tandoy case’ written and directed by Michele Guardì – based on an idea that, as revealed by the director of many TV shows, “was born from the clippings of the newspaper ‘L’Ora’ that I kept as a boy on a news case in Sicily and that I found myself in my hands after a long time” – Tosca D’Aquino and Emy Bergamo for the transposition of the film ‘Steel flowers’. And again, on the bill : Flavio Insinna and his Piccola Orchestra for ‘The machine of happiness’, Simone Cristicchi with the work on Dante’ Paradise, from darkness to light ‘, Biagio Izzo for the brilliant comedy’ Tartassati dalle taxes’, Marisa Laurito with ‘Natural people and arrogant ‘, Barbara Foria and her’ I wanted to be born stupid … so as not to go to war! ‘, Pino Strabioli with’ Always flowers, never a florist ‘in homage to Paolo Poli, Antonello Avallone for Alessandro’s’ Novecento’ Baricco, the ‘No Wags’ by Piji Siciliani, the ‘Muratori’ by Edoardo Erba transferred from Rome to Naples and other proposals, to arrive at the end of May at the seasonal closing of the curtain. (By Enzo Bonaiuto)