(July 10, 2017) “Mumble Mumble”: this is the title of the show by Emanuele Salce and Andrea Pergolari, which will be on stage in Rome on July 13 (9PM) at the headquarters of the Dante Alighieri Society (Primaticcio Gallery of Palazzo Firenze). The event is promoted by the Dante Alighieri Society with the purpose of raising funds for the creation of four scholarships for the Kiev Committee. “The evening, open to the members – reads in a note – will be the occasion to meet in an informal setting Dante’s friends and enjoy a show in return for a donation that can stimulate and encourage the study of Italian in Ukraine, and in particular in Kiev, as well as in the rest of the Eastern Europe area, where Dante intends to strengthen the language teaching network”. “Mumble Mumble” is a three-act story in which Emanuele Salce has shamelessy told stories of two funerals and half (and the gestures of the protagonists who in those days stood out…). In the first, that of his father, Luciano, when he was little more than twenty years old, and having dropped from a night of excesses of alcohol, found himself having to manage the event alone, facing in the worst possibile conditions a reality unknown and very uncomfortable for him, among kind-of-relatives in search of legacy, funeral workers following him with coffin catalogs and his crush not reciprocating his feelings. In the second, that of Vittorio Gassman, her mother’s husband, lived as a thirty years old sharper and more conscious, in which the spectator observes a real Mardi Gras of sacred and profane, among the improbable political authorities and socialites of every kind: from minor colleagues, car salesmen, frustrated religious, moochers who pulled high-quality wine bottles to finish it all this with the European 2000 semi-finals between Netherlands and Italy with stadium-like scenes. The third act (metaphorically) portrays his own funeral: lived through the encounter with an Australian blonde and a défaillance in a Sydney museum, with a crescendo ending up in a real (not just symbolic) liberation. To counteract on stage the spectator-director Paolo Giommarelli, who is now an accomplice, now a provocateur of confession, passing smoothly from Achille Campanile to Petrarca to a treatise of procto-gastroenterology. (Red)
