After the original and successful theatrical performances “Elettra” by Sophocles, created with the patronage of the ADA of Syracuse, and “Pirandelian Screen -Sceneate” sponsored by the National Center for Pirandellian Studies of Agrigento, the theater company “Great Talent” of Palmi, bears on stage the brilliant comedy “The doctor of the Pazzi”, written by Eduardo Scarpetta in 1908, and made in the cinema version by cinema version by Totò, in 1954.
The show is part of the theater review “Kalatetro 2025”, financed by the Calabria Region – Tourism and Territorial Marketing Sector, and will take place at the Motta di Palmi Theater, Saturday 2 August 2025 at 9.15 pm, with free admission.
We met the actors and actresses of the company “Great Talent” and the director Giovanni Parrello (in the theater Gianni Ndc), who edited the reduction and adaptation of the original text of Scarpetta, developing a revisited and more modern setting, but respectful of the original content of the work.
“In 2025, to be exact on November 29, – highlighted Parrello – the centenary of the death of Eduardo Scarpetta, progenitor of the modern Neapolitan dramaturgy. To celebrate the memory of this important theatrical author, the National Library of Naples has organized the exhibition” Scarpetta 100 “, a tribute to its life and its theatrical legacy. We also” Great Talent “of Palmi that we are theater for Poor, Diletto and for passion – but always with great attention to the authors and theatrical texts – we wanted to pay homage to the great Neapolitan playwright bringing on stage (for the second time after 16 years NDC), one of the two most important and hilarious works written by Eduardo Scarpetta: “The doctor of the crazy” precisely, which together with “Misery and nobility”, are the funniest works written by Scaritta, so much so that the great Totò made them in cinematographic version “.
In the cast, also Professor Lilli Sgrò, the journalist Domenico Latino and the lawyer Domenico Infantino.
“Being part of a theater company and living the theater by playing a character – remarked Lilli Sgrò – is a very fun and satisfying experience; to interpret a character, many times completely different from ourselves, is in itself” cathartic “and liberating, and allows you to know and discover one’s merits and also their limits, in a system of relationship between fiction and reality, which offers a space in which the scenic fiction becomes a mirror of reality, To spectators to reflect on oneself and on the surrounding world, sometimes in a tragic and dramatic key, other times in a comic and ironic key, according to the variation of theatrical genres “.
“I believe that if I did not make the journalist – Mimmo Latino said for his part – my profession would be to be a full -time actor, the art of acting has accompanied me since the time of the classical high school, when I participated as a student at the theatrical essays at the end of the school year, and after even as an adult I have always continued to exercise the hobby of the theater that has slowly taken more time and space in my weeks. – convinced and with great pleasure – I have always been part, we have made in the last two years, from 2023 to today, six different representations of their kind, passing from the yellow of Agatha Christie, to a comedy by De Filippo, from the Greek tragedy to the Pirandellian drama; Intense and full of satisfactions for us who love to do theater and who believe that “until there is theater there is hope”.
For the Lawyer Infantine, it is always nice to “get involved not only for the sake of lightening the tiring working days, – he underlined – but also and above all to continue to believe and put into practice significant experiences of cultural aggregation. The theater – defined rightly” the noble art “, especially when it comes to forms of entertainment that enhance the artistic expression and profound communication with the public – is a privileged opportunity to perpetuate the values that Since ancient Greece they have been handed down over the centuries until we get to us, at the present time, also reminding us of the maximum Latin: “Artes Servunt Vitae, Sapientia imrat”, which means: art comforts life, wisdom directs it! “.
Finally, the president of the “Great Talent”, Luisa Anastasio: “We welcomed with great pleasure the invitation that was addressed to us by the cultural association” L’Alba dei Tricchi “of Palmi, directed by Emanuele Maceri, to participate in the theater review” Kalatetro 2025 “, financed by the Calabria Region, in which they take part in addition to the” Great Talent “and” The Alba dei Tricchi ” Theatricals: the “Acting School of Calabria” and the “Proagòn Association”. Our territory. We are pleased to open the “Kalatetro 2025” review on August 2nd at the Motta Theater, we are waiting for you for an evening of theater and fun “.
Below are the characters and interpreters: Ciccillo Sciosciammocca, alienist doctor: Mimmo Latino; Gennaro Saitta, director of the Hotel De Rosa: Salvatore Repaci; Michelino Palumbo, friend of Ciccillo: Enzo Versi; Raffaele Saitta, brother of Gennaro: Domenico Infantino; Enrico Pastetta, violin master: Francesco Greco; Goffredo del Càdez, retired major: Antonino Illuminato; Amalia De Rosa, owner of the hotel: Lilli Sgro; Nicoletta, his daughter: Laura Antonacci; Lisetta, De Rosa hotel waitress: Roberta Modafferi; Felice Sciosciammocca, mayor of Roccasecca: Gianni Parrello; Assunta, his wife: Luisa Anastasio; Margherita, their daughter: Ivana Vigna. Music: Nino Palermo and Saverio Caminiti. Direction: Gianni Parrello.