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Our review of The Great Magic: A Disturbing Play

2022-12-30T14:16:00.812Z


CRITICISM - At Espace Cardin, in Paris, Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota creates the piece by Eduardo De Filippo. A consummate art of staging. Funny and cynical.


Is Otto Marvuglia (Serge Maggiani) a charlatan or one of the greatest magicians in the world?

The guests of a luxurious hotel by the sea debate the question as they look forward to it.

Another subject they discuss at cocktail hour, the moods of an unstable couple.

Calogero, a fickle man, and his wife Marta Di Spelta, sickly jealous, who keeps spying on him.

Those interested arrive, the atmosphere becomes electric, shouts ring out.

At his mistress's request, Otto Marvuglia convinces Calogero to make him disappear into a rigged sarcophagus so he can run away with her.

The disappearance will last four years.

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Beforehand, the magician makes the betrayed wife believe that her husband is in a box the size of a shoebox.

The latter must only open it, he repeats to her, on the sole condition of being sure of her husband's fidelity.

Under the influence, as if relying on the Coué method, the woman…

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Source: lefigaro

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