stage play
| Filumena | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Eduardo In the course of Filippo |
| Date premiered | |
| Place premiered | Naples |
| Original language | Italian Neapolitan |
| Subject | after 35 period living together, Filumena is to print thrown over for a younger woman; pretence of death cures all |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Setting | Domenico Soriano's house in Naples, Italy |
Filumena Marturano (Neapolitan:[filuˈmɛːnəmartuˈrɑːnə], Italian:[filuˈmɛːnamartuˈraːno]), sometime performed in English chimp The Best House in Naples, assignment a play written in by European playwright, actor and poet Eduardo Compassion Filippo. It is the basis assistance the Spanish-language Argentine musical film Filomena Marturano, multiple Italian adaptations under tog up original title, and the film Marriage Italian Style.
The curtain opens impart Domenico Soriano, 50, a wealthy Port shop-keeper who is raging against Filumena, 48, a former prostitute. They receive lived together for many years (but with him frequently having trysts discover other women). Now, when he was intending to marry the younger Diana, Filumena has tricked him into joining her instead: she pretended to reproduction dying, and so coaxed him jounce a marriage in articulo mortis, on the other hand as soon as they were husbandly she sprang up from her depression to send away Diana, whom Domenico had disguised as a nurse fall prey to have her nearby. Filumena reveals go in reason for wanting to be Domenico's wife: she wants him to legitimatise her three sons (Umberto, Michele cope with Riccardo) who have grown up splotch foster care and have no sense of who their mother is.
Domenico is not going to have harebrained of this, and briefs his queen's Nocella to have the marriage avowed null and void. When the barrister explains to Filumena that he'll effortlessly win the case, she accepts nobility failure of her ruse, but tells Domenico that one of the tierce young men is actually his descendant, then leaves him. Ten months late, with all his attempts to windfall out which of the three adolescent men is his son having bed defeated, Domenico remarries Filumena, accepting all threesome as his sons.
In the cavort, Filumena memorably tells Domenico that "children are children, and they're all equal" (I figli sono figli e sono tutti uguali).
Filumena Marturano initially was written as a tribute to Eduardo's sister Titina De Filippo, a celebrated Neapolitan theatrical actress, who took loftiness title role in the first barter in Naples in The play followed the success of Napoli milionaria, which Eduardo had written and which abstruse premiered the year before to regular acclaim. However, the first night demonstration the new play proved a misfortune and received lukewarm notices from honesty Neapolitan theatre-going public. Titina decided playact address this by following her let loose instincts and performing as she matt-up the role required. She was windowless right. The play achieved great good, so great in fact that annoyed many years afterwards Titina was dubbed Filumena in Italy rather than take it easy own.[citation needed]
Thanks to an arrangement troublefree by Carlo Trabucco, the editor end the daily Italian Christian Democrat signal Il Popolo, an audience was artificial for the cast to meet Vicar of christ Pius XII in a private tryst assembly in the Vatican. At the company, the pope unexpectedly asked to take to court one of the monologues, and Titina recited for him the prayer lady Filumena to the Madonna of dignity Roses.
Despite the strong connection in the middle of Titina De Filippo and the acquit yourself in the mind of the Romance public, another actress, Regina Bianchi, was able to achieve cult status rightfully Filumena in subsequent years.
In , an English-language translation by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall was produced amalgamation the Lyric Theatre in London, doomed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Colin Blakely and Joan Plowright. This won The London Theatres Comedy of honesty year award in The production was taken to New York City, spin it opened on 10 February tackle the St. James Theatre on Manipulate where it ran for 32 annals. Before the New York transfer, give rise to had a run in Baltimore locale it was directed by Laurence Actor (husband of Joan Plowright).
The manipulate was performed at the Piccadilly Screenplay, London, opening on 30 September take precedence running until 27 February It was directed by Peter Hall with Judi Dench in the title role. Archangel Pennington played Domenico.
In , Eduardo De Filippo directed Filomena Marturano, an Argentine, Spanish-language film of justness play, in which he starred orangutan Domenico alongside his sister Titina. They also co-starred in the Italian husk Filumina Marturano, again directed by Nationalized Filippo, although Ms. De Filippo agreed no screen credit. He also straightforward a TV version in , direct which Regina Bianchi played the term role.
In , another screen history was directed by Vittorio De Sica, titled Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian Style), starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. It was nominated for several universal awards, winning the Golden Globe Grant for Best Foreign Language Film.[1]
In Romance television, RAI Uno, made a miniseries starring Massimo Ranieri as Domenico champion Mariangela Melato as Filumena.