After last year’s great success and after “winning” the audience and critics, h “Kissed Marturano”one of the most well-known and beloved plays in the world theater repertoire, returns in October 2023 to the Dimitris Horn theater, putting women, human relationships and problematic family and social structures under the microscope.

Two worlds collide and the stereotypes of patriarchy are shaken using the great language of Eduardo De Filippo in this tender story of love, faith and forgiveness that today seems more relevant than ever.

Under the directorial gaze of Odysseus Papaspiliopoulos, Maria Naufliotou gives a shocking performance as Filumena Marturano, a heroine who to this day is a symbol of heroism, survival and motherhood, while Meletis Ilias as Domenico Soriano proves that everything can change as long as there is love.

A few words about the project

Eduardo de Filippo’s masterpiece is an example of lyrical and romantic writing, with strong comic elements and clever dialogues. It was originally written as a tribute to the author’s sister, Titina, a famous Neapolitan theater actress, who took the title role in the first presentation of the play in Naples in 1946. It later saw a huge big screen movie as “Marriage alla Italiana” with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and at the same time established itself as a classic play.

Filomena Marturano is the woman who never cries. Her tears have dried up from sorrows and sorrows. In the slums of Naples, the well-to-do handsome merchant Domenico Soriano meets her in a brothel fighting for her life and the lives of the people she loves. She gradually becomes his mistress. Indeed, after twenty years of cohabitation, Soriano is preparing to marry a much younger woman. Philomena then breaks out and uses her hidden big guns.

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