Filippo Timi, “INZIPIT AMBLETI TRAGEDIA”

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On 16 January 1972, L’Ambleto was staged at the Pier Lombardo Theatre. Not only was the curtain lifted on a new space that is still one of the most important on the Milanese scene, but it also marked the beginning of an extraordinary partnership between an author, Giovanni Testori, and an actor, Franco Parenti. There was something subversive about that pairing that burst onto the Milan scene in those years. A Catholic writer and a Communist actor broke all the moulds, opening up spaces for passionate reflection in the wounded fabric of Milan in those years.Despite the novelty and the anomaly of the text, L’Ambleto was a resounding success, marking the beginning of an extraordinary partnership. Years later, L’Ambleto was brought back on stage by another great protagonist of Italian theatre: Sandro Lombardi, directed by Federico Tiezzi. In this case too, the success was extraordinary. And now, forty years after that debut, will Filippo Timi be the third Ambleto? The Perugian actor, just back from a series of shows that have been box-office hits, has given Casa Testori a first taste, interpreting the memorable incipit of the text and his deep and unmistakable voice resounds through the rooms of the house (as did Sandro Lombardi’s for the first edition of Giorni Felici). What we all hope is that this is really a beginning. Our thanks go to Andrèe Ruth Shammah, who forty years ago directed the first Ambleto, and today has “taken Filippo Timi by the hand” in this beginning of Testori’s journey.

Filippo Timi was born in Perugia in 1974. He lives in Milan.