Director Davide Livermore brings to the stage the extraordinary universe of stories and characters created by Paolo Villaggio, with Gianni Fantoni in the role of the famous accountant. A modern-day Fantozzi, tragically unlucky but always ready to fight, somewhere between the grotesque and the human.

The megagalactic directors, the monstrous office workers, the human leather armchair, Fantozzi's cloud. With his books and films, Paolo Villaggio not only recounted the contradictions and paradoxes of Italian society like few others, but also left an indelible mark on the collective imagination and even on the language.
In the show, based on the first three books dedicated to Fantozzi, published between 1971 and 1976, fans will recognise episodes that have become proverbial, from the tennis match in the morning fog (“Hit it!”) to the Battleship Potemkin, from the camping scene to the one where Fantozzi gets ready to go to the office at the last second, drinks Pina's coffee at 3000 degrees Fahrenheit and catches the bus by jumping off the balcony. In Livermore's directorial vision, on the one hand, the echoes of classical tragedies, of marked and inevitable destinies, of vicissitudes leading to the only possible solution (defeat!) return emblematically, while on the other hand, stories and characters seem to adhere perfectly to the theatrical mechanisms of the Commedia dell'Arte.
On stage, in the role of Ugo Fantozzi, is Gianni Fantoni, who has crossed paths with Paolo Villaggio several times during his career, starting with his incredible ability to reproduce his voice and ending with his artistic legacy, in a handover strongly desired by Villaggio himself. Alongside him are Pina, Mariangela, his colleagues Filini and Calboni, Miss Silvani, Countess Serbelloni-Mazzanti-Viendalmare and the Honourable Knight Count Catellani: they are masks, expressions of a human category oscillating between opportunism and malice, sycophancy and disenchantment.