Lecce, “Il Giuocatore” with the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese at the Paisiello Theatre

Lecce, “Il Giuocatore” with the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese at the Paisiello Theatre

For the 2023/24 theater season of the Municipality of Lecce with the Puglia Public Theater at the Paisiello Theatre on Wednesday 13 December the Compagnia del Sole, directed by Marinella Anaclerio, with The Gambler, by Carlo Goldoni, a very current play on the mental mechanisms of the pathological gambler, on the consequences of gambling addictions, the involvements and upheavals of the surrounding social environment. With Stella Addario, Flavio Albanese, Antonella Carone, Patrizia Labianca, Loris Leoci, Tony Marzolla, Luigi Moretti, Dino Parrotta, Domenico Piscopo.

«I don't pretend that my Comedies should be the school of men; but this one I would like it to be, and in this one I have studied to act as a Preceptor, as much as I ever could; because, having needed it in the past, I would have liked to see an example on the stage that would have woken me up and corrected me.» Carlo Goldoni

This is what Goldoni underlines regarding his comedy, written in 1750. Gambling as vertigo, therefore, for him was not only linked to the desire to accumulate money but a real way of life. In any case, he knew the gambling tables very well, just as he knew very well all the backrooms and casinos, official and otherwise, where fortunes were made and undone. The author tells us about the typical day, from dawn to dusk, of a young bourgeois, Florindo, completely subservient to the game, without other horizons and concrete objectives. Goldoni skillfully paints the environment: girlfriends, friends, real and fake, servants, exploiters and protectors. With this piece he manages to deftly expose the mental mechanisms of the pathological gambler, revealing all the processes and traps into which the gambler falls, often dragging those around him with him. The spectator, as the story progresses, finds himself on a ridge between tragedy and comedy. We laugh but we also understand how gambling is a dramatic addiction, no less dangerous than any narcotic.

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