And even if it is a fairy tale, it certainly is not a joke as a child. There is talk of Pentaerone, by Giambattista Basile, entered fully into the national literature with Benedetto Croce in 1925. The tale in question is
"The old skinned" , now night of the waning moon ", galley from the moon which marks the time of the game of love between the Janara Carmela - Anna Criscuolo - Pasqualotto and the King of Sfessania - Pasquale Cirillo -.
Carmela, now old and ugly, he lives his life with his sister Concetta - Maria Accardo . Both the sun, never approached by love, they are a scam to weave romance with the King not tried but dropped suddenly in their lives and in their hovel. The Hoax goes to the famous night of the waning moon, when the King discovered the ugliness of his beloved, throws from the tower, starting at "magic" of the story: Carmela is rescued by a group
to do some 'anomalous ( Gianni Ilardi, Andrew Ronza, Crescenzo D'Amato, Abruzzese Nunzio, Nicola Razor), which transform it into a young and lovely princess - MariaRosaria Pugliese. The king falls in love, marry the two, but the worst fate comes just a concept, with quell'imbroglio did not want us to do ...
Around the three main characters, a wheel and colorful colorful village life, including doctors missed - Antonio Salvoni precludes a bit 'gigione - Decio Of Chiaie , fascinated and capere Peperino - Tweety Mauro ... all linked by musical interludes of "I Bazzarioti", capable of transporting the public by atmosphere dreamy and romantic pizziche wild for the feast of the country.
We leave you with some notes of director, director and writer of the story
Pino Brancaccio: "When Benedict Cross meets the work of Basile did not hesitate to call it: the oldest, the richest and most artistic of all the books of folk tales, going to say that the Pentamerone book is the most beautiful Italian Baroque.
[...] theatrical adaptation of the old skinned, tenth story of the first day
, it was decided to absorb all the suggestions and encouragement received from this so little known, but remarkable seventeenth-century fresco of a reality where people are breathing the communal living fully their spoken Neapolitan savory images of succulent precepts of popular burlesque of double meanings and blunt invective. [...] The title Night of the waning moon, as the adaptation
theatrical fable, was born from that Basile's bizarre and explosive need for metaforeggiare around the alternation in the life of men, the day and night, the Sun and the Moon ... [...] And themselves, the two old protagonists of the tale are two beings at night, because so little bad to be seen, and only at the going down of the sun, and only when the moon tends to dampen its splendor. The same moon is also an accomplice of falling in love and not immune to the role of eternal pimp. And when
to emphasize important moments, the prose turns dancing and singing, the tale became prose turns into musical comedy. who loves to end the usual moral of the story is not disappointed, because in addition to the direction of Sannazzaro Basile dictated by the end of the story (Envy, my son, steeping herself) may identify a more current: Live still life with courage, without fear . "
Pino Brancaccio
