Christmas at Casa Cupiello

A show for actors cum figuris
by Eduardo De Filippo
based on an idea by Vincenzo Ambrosino and Luca Saccoia,
directed by Lello Serao
with Luca Saccoia
, stage space, masks and puppets by Tiziano Fario,
actors Salvatore Bertone, Paola Maria Cacace, Lorenzo Ferrara, Oussama Lardjani, Angela Dionisia Severino, Irene Vecchia,
training and coordination of actors Irene Vecchia,
production by Teatri Associati di Napoli/Teatro Area Nord and Interno 5,
with the support of the Eduardo De Filippo Foundation and Teatro Augusteo,
winner of the 2023 National Association of Theatre Critics Award and the 2023 Gennaro Vitiello Award.

An unconventional production featuring a single actor interacting with seven puppets. The show, faithful to Eduardo's text, evokes the events of the Cupiello family, opening a window into the imagination and memory of every viewer. The setting is a large nativity scene, where the actor and the animated figures, which he himself manipulates, move around.

"The nativity scene is the horizon within which the entire work moves, both in a real and metaphorical sense. The nativity scene is the element necessary for Luca Cupiello to hope for a renewed and conflict-free humanity, but it is also the representation of birth and death, it is the time of the transition from the old to the new, it is the blend of past and present, it is a consolidated iconography and at the same time it is constantly to be deconstructed."
Lello Serao