The tribute to the deaf of Ghini and Cruciani. At Parioli ‘the widow’

Massimo Ghini and Paola Tiziana Cruciani will be the protagonists, at the Parioli Costanzo theater from 26 February to 9 March 2025, of “Il Vedovo”, directed by Ennio Coltorti. Ghini and cruciani will dress i Panni who were by Alberto Sordi and Franca Valeriin the famous film by Dino Risi, who made the history of Italian cinema. The adaptation of the text is by Ennio Coltorti and Gianni Clementi. To complete the cast: Giuseppe Gandini, Leonardo Ghini, Irene Girotti, Diego Sebastian Misasi, Tony Rucco, Tomaso Thellung.

“I have never been afraid to go on stage – said Massimo Ghini by presenting the show – but this time yes, because I meet the public of Rome in a role that was of deaf. I am not doing its imitation, I want to clarify it. Mine is interpretation. The show is based on the famous film by Dino Risi. On stage we find Alberto Nardi, a Roman industrialist, megalomaniac, but with little, if not disastrous, a sense of business, married (probably for interest) with a rich business woman, skilled and unscrupulous, to whom he, perpetually besieged by creditors , turns when it needs signatures for contracts, bills or cash for its bankruptcy initiatives.

His wife, aware of the absolute inability of her husband in business, wisely, not only has it now stopped continuing to subsidiaine her husband but continuously humiliates him by “cretinetti” even in public and, behind anonymity, he continually lends money on usury conditions, Through the Commendator Lambertoni, his intermediary, further ruining it. Alberto all that remains is to study improbable plans, together with his improbable collaborators, to get rid of his wife and inherit the capital. In a enthralling comedian, his attempts will trigger absurd situations that made “Il Vedovo” a magnificent comedian masterpiece of the “Italian comedy” who saw two sacred monsters such as Alberto Sordi and Franca Valeri protagonists.

In this adaptation signed by Gianni Clementi and Ennio Coltorti, the action is moved to Rome. “The strength of this film – said Ghini again – or if you want the provocation, is also in the fact that it talks about a proto femicide. There are four idiots who try to do the wife out for the money just that there is a final that It brings to the opposite. Massimo Ghini and Paola Tiziana Cruciani carry on the shoulders the heavy inheritance of Alberto Sordi and Franca Valeri: “Mine, I emphasize again – reiterated Ghini – is not the imitation of Alberto Sordi rather a tribute. With me there is Paola Tiziana Cruciani, class actress, very funny. I was wearing the same costumes as Alberto. Nice to be with him and already on that occasion I said that mine was an interpretation. ”

To Paola Tiziana Cruciani touches the role that was by Franca Valeri: a helow, no longer Almiraghi but Ceccarelli, who, although Roman, with cynical pragmatism cradles the dream of moving without her husband to Milan adopting the dialect to emancipate itself also slowly from common places characterizing Rome and its people and thus entering the great economic movement that will lead to the future “Milan to drink”. Already in the 1950s, Risi identified what would become the protagonists of another his masterpiece: “The monsters”. Today the characters of the “widower” cannot fail to remember the dizzying increase in the current social “monstrosity”. The show, respecting the intertwining of the famous film to the maximum and transforming the film scans of the time into theatrical rhythms, does not propose itself as an imitation but rather, a tribute to this masterpiece of the seventies and as a return to great fun “all ‘Italian”.