L’Avaro

L’AVARO

byMolière

riduzione Luigi Lunari

with

Alessandro Haber andSimona Marchini

and with

Maximilian Nisi – Marcello Romolo – Daniela Zanchini – Paolo Briguglia

Ada Todaro – Vito Facciolla –  Roberto Salemi – Patrizia D’Antona

and with la partecipazione by

Giorgio Libassi – Carlos Pavlidis

set design

Jèrome Savary

with la collaborazione by Claire Sternberg

costumes

Michel Dussarrat

music

Gérard Daguerre

lighting design

Cesare Accetta

assistant director

Maxime Lombard 

directed by

Jérôme Savary

The show premiered at the Palermo di Scena Festival on 6, 7 and 8 September 2000 at the Teatro di Verdura in Palermo. Director's notes

L'Avaro is a text as universal as it is timeless. Given its themes, it could be adapted to any era: avarice, relations between fathers and children, malice and arbitrariness are as present today as they were in those centuries.

I did not want to make a forced 'modern' staging of The Miser, but I do want to remind the audience of Molière's modernity. If I made any abstractions in the adaptation, it was because of some (rare) archaisms in the language; the lines could be used in our everyday conversations, and the clashes between Harpagon and his children could have been written by Ibsen, or Chekhov, or…

So we worked in this direction, building a bridge between Molière's time and ours and looking for similarities between these two periods, so distant at first sight and yet so close.

Alessandro Haber will be a new, modern Harpagon. In my Miser he will pass as if by magic from a Goldonian Harpagon to a harsh Brechtian banker.

Simona Marchini will play the director of a marriage agency, turning Frosine into a matchmaker of our own day.

The actors will perform Molière in a modern way, but without betraying the spirit of the text.

Abbiamo improvvisato molto e riso molto durante le prove, with una troupe affiatata.

I hope this pleasure can also be passed on to the audience.

Jérôme Savary

personaggi e interpreti (in o.e.)

Arpagone                                             Alessandro Haber

Merluzzo                                              Carlos Pavlidis

Valerio                                                   Maximilian Nisi

Elisa                                                       Ada Todaro

Cleante                                                  Paolo Briguglia

Freccia                                                   Vito Facciolla

Mastro Simone, the Commissioner – Roberto Salemi

Frosina                                                  Simona Marchini

Mariana                                                Daniela Zanchini

Mastro Giacomo                                  Marcello Romolo

Anselmo, Gran D’Avena                      Giorgio Li Bassi

Donna Claudia: Patrizia D'Antona. Photographs are free of publication rights for press use. Please always credit the photographer: ph. Oreste Lanzetta

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