Filumena Marturano
By Eduardo De Filippo, directed by Oriol Broggi
After 25 years of living supported by Domenico Soriano and multiple refusals to marry her, Filumena decides to feign a serious illness to get Domenico to agree to marry her on her deathbed. The house is full of doctors and neighbors, and in the middle of this funeral atmosphere the priest arrives to give her extremuntion and the wedding is organized. Meanwhile, a young lover of Domenico waits anxiously in the next room for Filumena to cross... But once married Filumena Marturano gets out of bed fresh as a rose, and that's where the show begins.
What has pushed Filumena to set up this whole farce? Why her obsession with marrying Domenico? And why had he been avoiding marriage for 25 years? This is a comedy of tangles, secrets and twisted intentions. Filumena is the protagonist of a life journey that has led her to deceive, steal and take advantage of Domenico, who has always been swimming in opulence. The explosion of their love affair splashes everyone around them and even those who are not yet around them. All the truth is thrown on the table, but we already know that the truth is often painful...
The airs of Italy by Eduardo De Filippo return to La Perla 29 to tell us about love and revenge, the instinct of survival and human pettiness. A Neapolitan-style portrait where love is put to the test and reminds us that love is a force that sometimes bounces in opposite directions.
Text
Eduardo De Filippo
Translation
Xavi Valls Guinovart
Directed and adapted
Oriol Broggi
With
Clara Segura
Enrico Ianniello
Jordi Coromina
Marissa Josa
Jordi Llovet
Lluís Oliver
Xavier Ruano
Josep Sobrevals
Montse Vellvehí
Carla Vilaró
Assistant Director
Albert Reverendo
Space
Oriol Broggi
Lighting
Pep Barcons
Costume
Nina Pawlowsky
Characterization
Angels Salinas
Sound
Oscar Villar
Construction of scenography
Taller d'escenografia Castells
Confection of costumes
Època Barcelona
Stage Managers
Marc Serra i Pol Quintana
Technical shows
Pau Montull i Roger Blasco
A production of La Perla 29
Play in Catalan, Spanish and a bit of Italian
De Filippo often speaks of souls to explain his characters. I also think of all of you, who come to find them, and you too are souls. Welcome, all of you. "The world is basically a great stage, and life is a comedy, happy or sad depending on the circumstances. To live, we must adapt to perform the comedy...", writes the author of our play. We would like the audience to see it as well while we rehearse it. A living present in which the actors are searching for the exact gesture for each word, the forms, the necessary rhythms. An action that progresses without anything being fixed, where everything could change. A piece of unrefined life. A certain sense of exhalation. Without having been finished or limited, without wanting to fix it. Life passing before us, seemingly without haste but very rapid. Perhaps this is our profession, this attempt. We want to show you what we have found in the fleeting discussions of couples. To see who is who. To understand each other. To show love or lovelessness. The passion and strength of understanding. After the play, we will have humanized a little, because we will have witnessed their reconciliation, after having spied on a while of their life, which is also ours. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do because we are in love with life and also with our profession.
Oriol Broggi
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