Sorrentino, I bring Mattia Torre's 'human' theater to TV / VIDEO

In 'his' home, the Ambra Jovinelli theater in Rome, Mattia Torre, the playwright who died prematurely on 19 July 2019, would enjoy the moment: his theater, ironic, powerful, funny and tragic at the same time, arrives on TV brought by the his actors-friends of all time, with the television direction of the Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, the production of Lorenzo Mieli, his 'brother' for a lifetime.

"With this project and Boris on the air, a great gift was made for the 50 years he never turned, he would be happy", says widow Francesca Rocca.

Six Easy Pieces, from November 19 at 10 pm on Rai3, proposed by Rai Cultura, are six of Torre's most famous works, interpreted by his actors who have returned to the stage for this staging.

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Paolo Sorrentino: 'I bring on TV the' human 'theater of Mattia Torre'

The one around Torre is a sort of community, everyone happy to find themselves still grappling with stories that make you think and leave their mark in entertaining.

There is Valerio Mastandrea in Migliore, who opens the series, then Geppi Cucciari in Perfetta ("Nobody like him has been able to make such a true female portrait"), Valerio Aprea, one of his fetish actors, starring with Paolo Calabresi of Qui and now (December 3), In the middle of the sea and Gola (December 17), Giordano Agrusta, Massimo De Lorenzo, Cristina Pellegrino, Carlo De Ruggieri in the choral '456' (December 10).    

A theater that is also TV and also cinema, "an original project that represents one of the best moments of Rai, as when it involved great artists such as Fellini, Bertolucci, Olmi, Ronconi, a tradition that is repeated today", says CEO Carlo Fuortes.

There is the bet of the theater on TV, in a prestigious time, "right - adds the director of Rai Cultura Silvia Calandrelli - that the public service makes this treasure accessible".    

What is so powerful about Torre's contemporary theater?

Sorrentino replies to ANSA: "He is on a double track, comic but he also moves on extremely profound, delicate, fearful themes. He is not a slave to certain drifts of recent times, he is free in the use of words and tones, ironic , self-deprecating. Torre is a great investigator of our miseries and above all reminds us that certain miseries can be loved ".    

Aprea says: "His is not a boring theater, it is frightening, it is an indispensable, revolutionary comedy that is never an end in itself. It makes you feel fragile, small, contradictory".

Valerio Mastandrea, protagonist of Migliore, the story of a normal man who becomes a bad man in an accident and suddenly sees all the doors of society open, speaks of a "sentimental journey. I have a kind of love and repulsion towards the theater, it was Mattia to give me this inclination, which gives me torment and anguish ".

Fremantle production in collaboration with The Apartment (Fremantle group) for Rai Cultura, Six Easy Pieces brings Paolo Sorrentino back to the television direction of theatrical works years after the experiences with Toni Servillo in The Voices of Inside and Saturday Sunday and Monday by Eduardo De Filippo.

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