Stasera at 9.30pm live on Rai 1, Vincenzo Salemme gives viewers his new one theatrical comedy Every promise is debt. On stage at the Auditorium of Naples, the broadcast of the piece is a Rai Cultura project which brings, once again, the great theater on television, with the unmistakable style of the Neapolitan actor, playwright and director.
Every promise is debt: tonight 5 January live on Rai 1 Vincenzo Salemme’s show, the plot
Benedetto Croce (Vincenzo Salemme) is the owner of a small pizzeria on the beach of Bacoli. One day the man aboard a boat, he ends up on the rocks and finds himself lost at sea together with his children and his waiter. Unconscious due to a blow to the head during the accident, Benedetto manages to send a message on the on-board radio where promises, in case of salvationto make a vow to Saint Anna and donate 5,557,382 euros and 60 cents.
A boat nearby takes up his appeal and rescues them and, once back on land safe and sound, everyone asks the man to account for that votebut he doesn’t remember anything at all, as happens to all sleepwalkers. In fact, Benedetto does not remember having launched the SOS nor of having promised the saint that millionaire vote and so he finds himself ad face an absurd situation in which everyone, from the children to the mayor, wants to know if that money really exists. How will Benedict extricate himself and respect his solemn promise but, above all, Does this money really exist?
Vincenzo Salemme in the show “Every promise is debt”. (Photo by Federico Riva)
Vincenzo Salemme, one of the symbolic faces of the theater of Naples
Show he recorded many sold out around Italy last year, Every promise is debt it is a very particular theatrical comedy«a dialogue within another, a kind of matryoshka as if the words were magnetized to each other and repelled each other” Salemme declared in an interview withAGI.
Again to the press agency, the Neapolitan actor and director said: «It was very tiring to write this playI wrote it before Covid then when I picked it up again it no longer convinced me and I rewrote it many times. It’s a delicious, light, funny comedy and it seems to me that the public likes it very much.”
Beloved face of cinema and TV, Vincenzo Salemme – who this year will celebrate 50 years of career – He has over thirty theatrical works to his credit (both comedies and one-act plays), all staged with great success. Debut in the mid-70s with Eduardo De Filippo’s companythe Neapolitan showman in 1990 he opened the cultural association ET, forming his own theatrical reality. Success is instantaneous and will be such as to allow him the formation of a professional company: the “Who’s on stage”.
After decades of great successes in theaters throughout Italy, at the end of the 90s Salemme made his debut as a film director with The best friendco-starring Eva Herzigova. A triumph with the public that will lead the Neapolitan director to film other cult films like Love at first sight And If you leave me it’s not worth it. However, without ever abandoning his beloved theatre.
The cast of Every promise is debt: from the veteran Rosa Miranda to the young Gennaro Guazzo
Rosa Miranda has been active in cinema and theater for over 40 years she is one of the most versatile actresses on the Neapolitan scene. Artistic partner for many years of the legendary Mario MerolaRosa worked with the “king of Neapolitan drama” in numerous theater and television productions and toured the world with him with the show Canada, United States and Australia.
With Salemme instead, Rosa Miranda worked in several shows as People want to laugh, People want to laugh… again, Dreams and needs, The beauty of dad And The Salemme Family Show. He also appears, in a small role, in the film If you leave me it’s not worth it of 2016.
Class of 2005, Gennaro Guazzo is one of the emerging faces of the Neapolitan theatre. A former child actor, he often acted on stage with Vincenzo Salemme but also in films such as Welcome to the Esposito house And Too Neapolitan. To complete the cast there are also Nicola Acunzo, Domenico AriaVincenzo Borrino, Sergio D’Auria, Oscarino Di Maio, Pina Giarmanà, Antonio Guerriero, Geremia Longobardo, Agostino Pannone and Fernanda Pinto.