Until 4 July, every Tuesday evening a different show. It begins with “Two Dozen Scarlet Roses”.
With “Due dozzine di rose scarlatte” (Two dozen scarlet roses), a classic of the comedy of misunderstandings, will kick off on Tuesday evening the mini theatre review in the open air in front of the Circolo “Il Bastione” (via Verdi), which until 4 July will feature a different show every Tuesday (9.30 pm) (admission 8 euro).
Organised by the cultural theatre association Gat and TeatroCastello with the patronage of the Municipality of Castelfiorentino, the first evening will see the actors of Gat on stage performing one of those witty and elegant piéces in which the play of couples shows itself as an unavoidable narrative engine.
In an all too faithful marriage, the wife (perhaps a little neglected) begins to feel the urge to escape and organises a trip alone. The husband takes the opportunity to try to approach a beautiful countess by sending two dozen scarlet roses under the pseudonym ‘mystery’. But the bouquet mistakenly reaches his wife. From this misunderstanding develops a parallel story about desire and the need to dream, an initiatory path that makes us reflect smilingly on our weaknesses.
Written “made-to-measure” by Aldo De Benedetti in 1936 for Vittorio De Sica and Giuditta Rissone and brought to the cinema screens by De Sica himself in 1940, the play tells with lightness, elegance and subtle irony a story set in the upper middle class and born of a casual misunderstanding, preserving the scent of the past, the discreet charm of an elegance of writing, of matrimonial monotony
The other two shows are scheduled for Tuesday, 27 June with “Il Matrimonio mancato” (also by Gat) and Tuesday, 4 July, with “Sei personaggi in cerca di dottore” (Six characters in search of a doctor), performed by the “Indisciplinati” of TeatroCastello.
