Antonio Albanese in “Personaggi”

The show Personaggi over time has been enriched by the new masks created by Antonio Albanese, becoming the summa of his plays.
What do the thousands of faces with which Antonio Albanese recounts the present have in common? Humanity.
Reality becomes theatre through Epifanio, L’Ottimista, il Sommelier, Cetto La Qualunque, Alex Drastico and Perego, masks and at the same time prototypes of our society, familiar faces that can be found in the neighbour, in the best friend, in ourselves.
The show Personaggi brings together some of the faces created by Antonio Albanese: from the immigrant who is unable to fit in in the North, to the entrepreneur who works 16 hours a day, from the sommelier seraphic in decanting wine, to the less than honest political candidate, from the visionary Ottimista “abitante di un mondo perfetto” to the tender
Epifanio and his international dreams.
Characters that we have learnt to know and love over the years, where neurosis, alienation, soliloquy in human relationships and the
affective breakdown of the family, senseless optimism and ideological emptiness help to weave the plot written by Michele Serra and Antonio Albanese.
On stage, men from the South and the North, tall and short, fat and thin, rich and poor, optimists and qualunquists. Irreverent and grotesque masks, mirrors of a reality looked at with a careful eye to capture its flaws, habits and tics.
A gallery of anti-heroes that reveal a world made of obsessions, fears, delusions of omnipotence and shortcuts, but where poetry also finds a place in the end.
A recital that recounts, with corrosive comedy and a fast pace, a world populated by characters typical of our time, by contemporary thinking interpreted with disruptive physicality.

“I would like everyone to feel a little less lonely, a little more cheerful, a little stronger, I would like to embrace them all. Laughter è an embrace, a need that will always be there.”

Antonio Albanese