Luca De Fusco directs Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Eduardo De Filippo’s timeless comedy which explores, with a blend of irony and tension, the dynamics of a family gathered around the ritual of Sunday lunch. Written in 1959, it is a work that is only superficially bourgeois, imbued with a subtle Chekhovian tone, revealing just how surprisingly relevant Eduardo’s theatre remains today.

At the Priore household, everything is ready for the traditional Sunday lunch: the ragù simmers slowly, the family gathers, and the small daily rituals mark the passing of the weekend. But behind this domestic normality lie tensions, jealousies, silences and misunderstandings which, between Saturday, Sunday and Monday, will eventually come to the surface. With his extraordinary ability to blend comedy and melancholy, Eduardo De Filippo portrays a family in which the private sphere becomes a universal mirror of human relationships, transforming a simple lunch into a vivid, ironic and deeply topical portrait of everyday life.
“Rereading this masterpiece,” says Luca De Fusco, “we find ourselves regretting the lost balance more than the anticipation of future conflicts. And perhaps what emerges is Eduardo’s regret for a ‘normal’ family, one he never had. From the point of view of stage direction, never before have I sought so much to be a director-performer, one who does not dare to alter a single note of the score, like a good conductor […] I think Eduardo is like Goldoni: he can be interpreted, but not distorted.”