Silvio Orlando—one of the most award-winning and acclaimed actors in Italian theater and film—takes on a Luigi Pirandello role for the first time, playing the scribe Ciampa, a tragic and grotesque figure who is the beating heart of *Il berretto a sonagli*, presented here in Andrea Baracco’s stage adaptation.
The Rattling Cap
Luigi Pirandello / Andrea Baracco / Silvio Orlando
© Laila Pozzo
1 hour and 30 minutes
The Rattling Cap
Luigi Pirandello / Andrea Baracco / Silvio Orlando
© Laila Pozzo
1 hour and 30 minutes
Five years after writing the novella *La Verità*, Luigi Pirandello—awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934—adapted it into the two-act play *Il berretto a sonagli*, whose Sicilian version, tailored for Angelo Musco, premiered in 1917 at the Teatro Nazionale in Rome. In one of the letters addressed to Musco, in which he questioned the merits of the play and its protagonist, Ciampa, Pirandello describes him as a character “brimming with tragic humanity, not alive but vividly alive.”
In his director’s notes, Andrea Baracco states: “Ciampa’s humility looms large, while ridicule drags him through the mud; it is as if an inexorable blade were cutting ever deeper into his chest to expose his heart, and so he defends himself with vivid and heart-wrenching words. He begins his journey with a simplicity that allows him to display comic aspects—an ironic humor with which he mercilessly mocks the obtuseness of others—only to plunge, in his humiliation as the vanquished, into a sort of lyrical exaltation that constantly shifts the viewer from laughter to anguish.”
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