Luca De Fusco directs *Saturday, Sunday, and Monday*, Eduardo De Filippo’s timeless comedy that 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 play that is only superficially bourgeois, imbued with a subtle Chekhovian tone that reveals just how surprisingly relevant Eduardo’s theater remains today.
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
Eduardo De Filippo / Luca De Fusco
2 hours 50 minutes
Act I 50’ / Act II 50’ / Intermission 20’ / Act III 50’
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
Eduardo De Filippo / Luca De Fusco
2 hours 50 minutes
Act I 50’ / Act II 50’ / Intermission 20’ / Act III 50’
At the Priore household, everything is ready for the traditional Sunday lunch: the ragù is simmering slowly, the family is gathering, and the little daily rituals mark the passage of the weekend. But behind this domestic normality lie tensions, jealousies, silences, and misunderstandings that, 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 relevant portrait of everyday life.
“Rereading this masterpiece,” says Luca De Fusco, “we find ourselves lamenting the lost balance more than anticipating future conflicts. And perhaps what emerges is Eduardo’s longing for a ‘normal’ family—one he never had. From the perspective of stage direction, never before have I sought so much to be a director-performer who does not dare to alter a single note of the score, like a good conductor […] I think Eduardo is like Goldoni: you can interpret him, but you cannot distort him.”
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