Cagliari, standing ovation at the Teatro Massimo for "Il Silenzio Grande"
Massimiliano Gallo and Stefania Rocca, directed by Alessandro Gassmann, thrill a sold-out audience
Much has been said about the suffering of the culture and live entertainment sector in the two years of the pandemic.
And yesterday, for the last performance of "Il Silenzio Grande", the first title of 2022 of the great prose program organized by Cedac at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, a double magic was staged, the one given by the actors of a superlative cast , masterfully directed by Alessandro Gassmann, engaged in a powerful, hilarious and engaging play, and that of a standing ovation with over 10 minutes of applause.
In addition to the extraordinary skill of Massimiliano Gallo, Stefania Rocca and travel companions, a communion of souls between artists and spectators was palpable, a sincere, spontaneous and never so felt inspiration in the depths of the heart of an audience that wanted to preside over every place available now that you can go to the theater, albeit with masks and green pass.
Massimiliano Gallo says this in the dressing rooms in unison with Stefania Rocca, two of the magnificent protagonists of Gassmann's brilliant work taken from the book by Maurizio De Giovanni: "After so much suffering being able to go back to acting for the public gave us a very strong emotion, the hug from the Cagliari audience who accompanied us in five days of performances was fantastic but in addition we felt all the energy they wanted to convey, together with a liberating sense that came up to the stage from the armchairs, we will still be here another week. An energy - continues the iconic Commissioner Luigi Palma in I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone - which, at the end of the tour, receiving the final applause, snatched more than one tear from us, this time of happiness after a surreal and immense desperation for the deaths, for the suffering and for the unspeakable physical and psychological frustrations that we never wanted to face ".
Two hours and twenty of great theater focused on the character of Valerio Primic (Massimiliano Gallo), famous writer and three times Premio Strega.
In the ancient and precious Villa Primic live with him his wife Rose (Stefania Rocca), a woman often alone and forgotten by a famous husband who is too busy writing, and his children Adele (Paola Senatore) and Massimiliano (Jacopo Sorbini). Then the very faithful housekeeper Bettina (Pina Giarmanà).
A strongly egocentric vision, perhaps typical of the artist's temperament, which however does not take into consideration the needs, desires and aspirations of others, not out of deliberate or cruel indifference but out of mere unawareness, as if they "depended" on him, as the characters of his books. At the end of the show, the twist that upsets and astonishes, flooding the atmosphere with intense emotion.
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