Ornella Muti and Enrico Guarnieri in:
THE GOVERNOR.
PLOT - This play was written in 1952 and immediately censored. The excuse was that of the - then very hot - topic of homosexuality, although Vitaliano Brancati claimed that "The substance of the story is more the slander than the love between the two women." But against the backdrop of a complex discourse on ethics and individual responsibility, the text is full of polemical accents against the hypocrisy of Catholic well-wishers, bourgeois pro-communism, the principles of baronial Sicily and against censorship itself.
Vitaliano Brancati died in 1954. "The Governess" was first staged in Paris in 1963. In order to present it in Italy, Vitaliano Brancati's wife had to wait for the abolition of censorship. The Italian debut was on January 22, 1965, starring the same wife, Anna Proclemer, and a great Gianrico Tedeschi in the role of Platania. It was directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, already a well-known playwright, in his first try as director.
attributed to a young maid of the Platanias her own tendencies, causing her dismissal. Catherine feels responsible for the death of the girl, who was involved in an accident on her way back to the South-a sin that the housekeeper will decide to atone for by committing suicide.
PROTAGONISTS - Ornella Muti returns to the Garibaldi after bringing "The Jew" to the stage in 2010-2011. Enrico Guarneri is making his first appearance on the Garibaldi Theater stage.
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