Productions · 1987
Miseria e nobilta
Directed by Enzo Sirna
Cast
- Gaetano
- Bruno Napoletano
- Gemma (figlia di Gaetano)
- Tina Messina
- Luigino (figlio di Gaetano)
- Tony Rapanaro
- Marchese Ottavio Favetti
- Paul Camenzuli
- Eugenio (figlio di Favetti)
- Riccardo Serrano
- Pasquale
- Luciano Pinto
- Concetta (moglie di Pasquale)
- Carmela Briguglio
- Pupella (figlia di Concetta)
- Claudia Vecchio
- Felice
- Enzo Sirna
- Luisella (amante di Felice)
- Franca Potalivo
- Bettina (prima moglie di Felice e domestica di Gaetano)
- Ambra Marra
- Peppeniello (figlio di Felice)
- Gianmarco Currado
- Giacchino Castiello
- Mario Ambrosino
- Vicienzo (servitore di Gaetano)
- Nick Cappa
- Biase (servitore di Gaetano
- Carlo Cosentino
- Facchini
- Carmelo Genovese
- Carlo Genovese
- Sandro Ambrosino
- Adam Pinto
About the play
Miseria e nobilté (1887) is perhaps the most successful play by Eduardo Scarpetta. In spite of its fairly predictable plot and certain stereotypes in its characterisation it is, nonetheless, a play with a considerable amount of sensitivity shown towards those characters from real life who must resort to their wits and sheer survival instinct in order to overcome hard times. In this case it is because of extreme poverty and hunger that some characters are forced into the pretension of wanting to appear different from what they really are, and we can only sympathise with them as Scarpetta no doubt intended. Above all, Scarpetta’s aim was to entertain and, indeed, this play is full of thoroughly amusing situations which are brilliantly captured and developed by means of a racy and highly enjoyable dialogue which manages to involve the audience in the action on stage.
