Venue: Auditorium Biagio Marin, Via Marchesini, 31 - Grado
Website: https://ertfvg.it/spettacoli/il-malato-immaginario-2/
Monday 25 January 2027 – 8.45 pm
performed in italian
From the Director’s Notes:
Staging The Imaginary Invalid today – one of Molière’s funniest and most topical plays – is a marvellous challenge. Re-reading the text of one of the few authors who were also actors brings the author’s comic and critical intent to life right from the table readings. What can one of the most frequently performed plays still tell us today? Certainly that Argan, the protagonist, is still amongst us. Along with his band of wives, children, maids, brothers and doctors. The theme of medicine, the controversies it generates, and the passions it unleashes are still the subject of public debate today, just as they always have been. Amongst professionals and, above all, amongst those who are genuinely ill and those who are feigning illness. From the very first lines, Molière takes the audience by the hand and lulls them with the laughter provoked by the characters in this comedy, only to then leave us to reflect on our relationship with doctors and their prescriptions. We wanted to return the text to its roots, striving wholeheartedly to recapture the spirit that animated Molière and his troupe, not only at the time of its creation but also, and above all, in its staging. So that a timeless text may speak to, make laugh and provoke reflection in today’s audience. A wonderful adventure, made possible only thanks to a marvellous company that has taken to the stage with love and passion, and which finds in Angelo Tosto its perfect comic leader. Angelo was born to be Argan.
Salvo Ficarra
from Molière
adaptation, script and direction by Salvo Ficarra
starring Angelo Tosto, Filippo Brazzaventre, Daniele Bruno, Cosimo Coltraro, Giovanna Criscuolo, Luca Fiorino, Anita Indigeno, Emanuele Puglia, Lucia Portale, Giovanni Rizzuti.
Production: Teatro Stabile di Catania
Distribution: Duepunti srl
Information
Tel: 0431 85834 / biglietteria@ertfvg.it
Municipal Library
Tel: 0431 82630
Culture Office
Tel: 0431 898269
Tickets and advance sales
TICKETS:
Full price €24.00
Concession €21.00
Concession available for over-65s, under-25s and ERT season ticket holders.
GRADO THEATRE TICKETS:
Single-price ticket €5,–
Free admission for theatre season ticket holders
ADVANCE BOOKING:
Online from Monday 19 October at ertfvg.it
At the Auditorium two days before the performance from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm and on the day of the performance from 5.30 pm until the start of the performance.