DALLA PIÈCE TEATRALE/FROM THE PLAY THE SERVANT
DAL ROMANZO OMONIMO DI/FROM THE NOVEL BY ROBIN MAUGHAM
TRADUZIONE E ADATTAMENTO/TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED BY LORENZO PAVOLINI
CON (IN ORDINE DI APPARIZIONE)/WITH TONY LAUDADIO, EMILIA SCARPATI FANETTI, ANDREA RENZI, LINO MUSELLA, MARIA LAILA FERNANDEZ
REGIA/DIRECTED BY PIERPAOLO SEPE, ANDREA RENZI
SCENE/SET DESIGN FRANCESCO GHISU
COSTUMI/COSTUME DESIGN ANNAPAOLA BRANCIA D’APRICENA
LUCI/LIGHT DESIGN CESARE ACCETTA
PRODUZIONE/PRODUCTION FONDAZIONE CAMPANIA DEI FESTIVAL – NAPOLI TEATRO FESTIVAL ITALIA, CASA DEL CONTEMPORANEO-CENTRO DI PRODUZIONE, TEATRI UNITI, TEATRO STABILE DI NAPOLI-TEATRO NAZIONALE
date/dates 13 luglio/july h 21.00
14 luglio/july h 21.00
15 luglio/july h 19.00
luogo/venue teatro san ferdinando
durata/running time 2h con intervallo
lingua/language italiano/italian
paese/country italia/italy
Il servo (The Servant) is a short novel by Robin Maugham, nephew of the renowned British novelist W. Somerset Maugham. When first published in 1948, this work was considered “a small masterpiece of abjection”. The version by Pierpaolo Sepe and Andrea Renzi is inspired by the stageplay written in 1958 by Robin Maugham himself, and the film released in the 1960s by Joseph Losey, and dramatized by Harold Pinter. Now Lorenzo Pavolini’s latest adaptation is a weave of these various texts, considered as a “black comedy” which delves into the psychological makeup of the protagonists, while the plot – set in a house – creates a veritable spider’s web which is slowly and inexorably spun by the “servant”. At the heart of the plot, the exemplary and cruel issue of the domination of one over the other: Hugo Barrett is the manservant in the household of Tony, a rich London lawyer. At first, the manservant appears to carry out his duties zealously but through a series of ambiguous psychological games, the roles of “master” and “servant” are upturned.
