The Cricket’s Marquis

August 7 at 21:30 – 23:00

Wednesday  August 7 at 21.30 in the Piazzale delle Barrozze The Cricket’s Marquis is staged by the G. Percuoco Company Free admission subject to availability.

Staged inspired by the famous comedy filmed by Mario Monicelli in 1981 starring Alberto Sordi.

In the papal Rome of 1809 the marquis Onofrio del Grillo, a Roman noble at the court of Pope Pius VII, spends his days in the most complete idleness, attending taverns and taverns, cultivating clandestine love affairs with commoners and keeping a rebellious attitude in his eyes mother and conservative, bigoted and authoritarian kinship. His main pastime, which makes him famous throughout the city, is made up of countless jokes and pranks which often results in his aristocratic family, made up of extravagant and closed to the outside world. The rich noble landowner is always able to go out with humor and in a daring manner from the many and unthinkable situations during the whole comedy, exploiting without shame even the knowledge of the often complacent upper middle class (the court scene with the example is the pillory condemnation of the Jewish cabinetmaker Aronne Piperno). A chance encounter with a poor alcoholic charcoal burner, Gasperino, his perfect double, inspires the nobleman to crown his burlesque repertoire. In various situations he comes to involve the Pontiff in the name of a justice and a renewal always invoked but that never seriously manage to worry the bold and brilliant “Sor Marchese”: in the end, in fact, after a mock condemnation to the guillotine inflicted by Pio VII, is pardoned by the latter, who grants him to resume his place among the pontifical Sediari.