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

Carlo Cecchi. L'uomo la bestia la virtù. 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.”

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Documents are published in original language. In case the translation is present, both the original and the translation are published.

Writings by artists and interviews

Leonardo Coen, Carlo Cecchi, Da vedere (Interview with Carlo Cecchi), «La Repubblica», 30 March 1976

Chi è Carlo Cecchi, «Gazzetta del popolo», March 20, 1973

Photogallery

L'uomo la bestia la virtù, 1976

Luisa De Sanctis, Carlo Cecchi, Carlo Monni

L'uomo la bestia la virtù, 1980

photograph by Maurizio Buscarino, TST Research Center

L'uomo la bestia e la virtù

directed by Carlo Cecchi, 1982
Video
Reviews

Nicola Garroni, Tanti Pulcinella incarogniti, «la Repubblica», February 14, 1976

A. Blandi, Si va a recitare nei quartieri per poter sfuggire la polizia, «La stampa», March 17, 1976

m.s., Pirandello in maschera, «Gazzetta del popolo», March 20, 1976

Giovanni Lombardi, Dietro le maschere, uomo, bestia e virtù, «Paese sera», 11 October 1980

Maria Grazia Gregori, Le maschere del borghese, «l'Unità», 12 January 1982

Renato Palazzi, Pirandello con arsenico, «Corriere della sera», 11 January 1982

Mario Grieco, Dentro quei salotti 'buoni' le tre maschere dell'ipocrisia, «Il nostro tempo», 28 February 1982

Orio Bertani, Tre maschere nude e odore di muffa, «L'avvenire», 10 January 1982

Context materials

Armando Petrini, Un attore di contraddizione. Note sul teatro di Carlo Cecchi, «L’Asino di B.», n. 3, July 1999

Renato Nicolini, Il valore della messa in scena, «Rinascita», 20 June 1987