L’uomo, la bestia e la virtù. 1976, 1980.

L’uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1976)

by Luigi Pirandello
Company “Granteatro”
Directed by Carlo Cecchi
With Rosanna Benvenuto, Carlo Cecchi, Marina Confalone, Bruno Fantuzzi, Annalisa Fierro, Stella Gregoretti, Berto Lama, Carlo Monni, Alfonso Santagata, Aldo Sassi
set, costumes and masks by Sergio Tramonti
scenic set up Attilio Monti
Debut January 10, 1976 Guastalla, Teatro Ruggero Ruggeri
Repetition: 13 February 1976 Naples, San Ferdinando – Turin, Cabaret Voltaire, 10 March 1976

L’uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1980)

by Luigi Pirandello
Company “Granteatro”
>Directed by Carlo Cecchi
With Rosanna Benvenuto, Toni Bertorelli, Dario Cantarelli, Carlo Cecchi, Marina Confalone, Annalisa Fierro (dal 1982 sostituita da Raffaella Azim), Paolo Graziosi, Gigio Morra
set, costumes and masks by Sergio Tramonti
Debut Florence, Teatro Niccolini, October 10th 1980
Repetition with different cast (1982)
With Raffaella Azim, Rosanna Benvenuto, Toni Bertorelli,  Carlo Cecchi, Marina Confalone, Paolo Graziosi, Augusta Gori, Giacomo Piperno, Nicolò Rinaldi
Milan, Salone Pier Lombardo, 8 January 1982

Cecchi actor and director: L’uomo, la bestia e la virtù.

di Armando Petrini, in «L’asino di B.», luglio 1999, pp. 67-64
Words could no longer remain written on paper, they had to burst into the air, spoken or shouted.
Luigi Pirandello
Carlo Cecchi presented L’uomo, la bestia e la virtù for the first time in 1976. The variants were countless: at least in the ‘80/81, ‘81/‘82, ‘86/‘87 and ‘87/’88 seasons. In 1991 he also did a fine TV version.
Cecchi’s encounter with the grotesque in Pirandello meant realizing one of his most successful stage works, even if it was maybe Cecchi’s special approach that made this “tragedy drowned in farce” so totally grotesque. “I used the text – Cecchi said in a 1976 interview – but changed its slant, introducing a total detachment of the public’s identification with the hero.”