Vincenzo Salemme's Revival of 'Natale in casa Cupiello': A Labor of Love

"I have decided to stage this masterpiece and do it as I have learned to do in this profession: with simplicity and love; love for my origins, love for Eduardo, for Luca, love for those Christmases spent in front of the television to warm our hearts between a handful of struffoli and a game of bingo", confesses Vincenzo Salemme, explaining the "genesis" of his reinterpretation of the milestone of Eduardo De Filippo's theatre, "Natale in casa Cupiello", after the success at the Diana theater in Naples, and then in Turin and Milan, now on stage from February 15 to March 10 at the Sistina in Rome, before continuing for Bologna and Florence. "I ventured into Eduardo's masterpiece, setting up a crazy machine, in front and behind the scenes, where more than forty people work - says the Neapolitan director and actor - Staging for the first time such a fundamental work for Italian theater was an immense joy. Through Eduardo's wonderful text, "breathing" his words, I was able to rediscover a cultural civilization that I believe is fading in today's world. Also for this reason, therefore, I could not be happier to have found it on stage again."