TURN, SPEAK TO ME
(Voltati, parlami)
by Alberto Moravia ALEXIS by Marguerite Yourcenar
(Adaptation Roberto Marafante)
Direction: Roberto Marafante
Cast: Maria Sansonetti, Stefano Marafante
Set and costumes: Massimo Marafante
Two of the most important European writers in a specular show: Moravia, a man, writes a monologue for a woman facing alone her only love, drug-addicted; Yourcenar, a woman, writes a long letter of a man to his wife revealing his homosexuality. Two great solitudes of our time.
Reviews:
“Roberto Marafante bet on two characters acting in front of a mute being, who cannot o doesn’t want to answer. The word thus expands, only to go desperately back to the character who uttered it.”
Ubaldo Soddu – Il Messaggero, 27th January 1989
“… Yourcenar’s text looks like the logical continuation of Moravia’s play.”
Marcantonio Lucidi – Il Messaggero, 21st January 1990
“… It is an example of very good theatre, both for the choice of the plays and for their interpretation and staging.”
Emilia Costantini – Corriere della Sera, 12th January 1989
“.. in the end you feel you have just witnessed two aborted duels, two fights that everyday routine made vain and harmless, in spite of their apparent violence.”
Nicola Fano – L’Unita, 10th January 1989
“… a passionate and clever vein for the big, little theatrical trenches.”
Rodolfo di Giammarco – La Repubblica, 23rd January 1989