I have talked about this with my friend Enrico Guarnieri. He is the spokesperson for quantum philosophy in theater- and maybe without confessing it- .
Litterio’s character represents, in fact, the universality of the Sicilian man, confined in his attempt to be what historical events and geographic position do not allow him to be. He is a labourer, and he claims himself "capocarriola" ("the leader of wheelbarrow" ), he has a very ugly wife but he fears to be betrayed, he dresses very bad and he thinks to be elegant, he sees the world with the same glasses of the country man, but he pretends to know everything, as if he were Francois de la Rochefoucauld... In his case, the Sun is the "Velleity" and the planets are all sicilian people, reduced to an indistinct mass, to an "individualistic mixture", made of stateless financial capitalism.
"Let's take a good coffee!" we used to say to have an appointment.
The day after we sat down in an outdoor table, to allow me to smoke.. And we started to invent another world at once. That day a story came out: In an old district of Catania, in a February night, the day before the patron saint's day, Saint Agata, Diego Maltisi found himself to judge a case of pedophilia in a family, where there was the uglyness of the crime and an humiliated humanity. It was the beginning of "The house of the old dream"
(" L’osteria del sogno antico").
Lately another work was born, a monologue suited to the Enrico's ability of matador: "il mio regno per un cavallo a dondolo" ("My kingdom for a rocking horse").