N.060 - Natale In Casa Cupiello

“And this Christmas came just as God intended: full of feelings.” At the heart of the microcosm of Casa Cupiello, we witness the quiet unraveling of a family, while its head, the dreamer Lucariello, clings to his nativity scene, an ideal of unity he believes, or chooses to believe, extends to his own life. Until the moment when tension erupts and reality breaks through, in the final scenes of the second act of Eduardo De Filippo’s tragicomedy, here represented by Elio Ferrario. A masterpiece of Neapolitan theatre, the play tells, in three acts, the disintegration and eventual reunion of a family, within a Christmas that ultimately belongs to all of us. The kind of Christmas where, with our loved ones, “we argue… we fall out… we make up… and then we sit down and eat together.”