JACQUES THE FATALIST
(Jacques il fatalista)
by D. Diderot
Adaptation and direction by Roberto Marafante
Cast: Giulio Scarpati, Stefano Marafante, Piero Pasqua
The show was staged in collaboration with the “Centro Culturale Francese” (French Cultural Institute). The great novel by Diderot it is here a dialogue among three young friends during a boring, rainy day. They talk about their dull life playing with the characters and the language of a brilliant century of which only the cosmic fatalism of the servant Jacques remains nowadays.
Reviews
“… but it is sure that from this calculated confusion a good flavour of critical intelligence comes out. We have the feeling that Diderot’s ironic and cruel speech reaches us through enlightenments, tastes, distillations of moods”
Ghigo De Chiara – Avanti, 18th September 1980
“Without changing tone, rhythm, duality, as if there was the wish to privilege the rationality over the sparkling and to contradict the Author with his own weapons of logic.
Rodolfo Di Giammarco – La Repubblica, 18th September 1980
“ …Roberto Marafante signed the adaptation and the direction, clever and full of rhythm. He enclosed the whole journey into a room…”
Pietro Favari – Corriere della sera, 19th September 1980
“The play has the pace of an easy-going group therapy, with the task of helping the good Jacques to recover his memory.”
L’Unità, 18th September 1980
“… the whole colourful and heterogeneous crowd created by Diderot is contained in a box.”
Rita Sala – Il Messaggero, 18th September 1980
“ Who goes to see “Jacques the Fatalist and his Master” finds the actors acting on the stage, joining thus into a conversation already begun. It is like taking up a book you had already started to read.”
Il Manifesto, 20th September 1980
“… and without being overwhelmed by the urgence of movement of the novel. Here we have, and with reason, a pause, a rest of the speech…”
Franco Cordelli – Paese Sera