Leo Gullotta with Fabio Grossi
In every life rain must fall
written and directed by Fabio Grossi
scenes Alessandro Chiti
music Germano Mazzocchetti
light design Umile Vainieri
assistant director Romano Gennuso
assistant to scenes Giulia Fagnani
video Vincenzo Villani
poster photo Tommaso Le Pera
sound Vincenzo Palma
light operator Pasquale Sicignano
administrator Tullia Salina Attinà
“Solitude”
choreography Luca Di Nicolantonio
starring Gianluca Conversano and Alessandro Carradori
thanks to Valentina Gristina
Antonio Parrinello for stage photos
production manager Marco Palmieri
executive production Maria Grazia Cimini, Claudia Dastoli
It lives on emotions, on sensations. It rejoices and suffers, laughs and is saddened.
It appropriates every moment of the life of those who live there, and we know how this life can change in an instant. The seconds that mark existence all have the same importance, burdened as they are by the change that time determines in the future of each one. It – the house – watches immobile but participates in the rapidity with which a life can change, even radically, even definitively.
In a second, what could have seemed immutable, changes, and we must go along with what life has reserved for us, with the awareness that somewhere, by someone, all this has been pondered, decided, written.
But the house, the house is there, a silent witness to the fleeting moment that never stops and that follows the path of Love, Pain, Sadness and Joy.
The House!”
“In every life rain must fall” tells the story of a life, the life of two people who live together and love each other. Today we can say that a “rainbow family” is told, even if this label is not right for our family: no children, just two people. The focal point is the house, which welcomes this union. Two people of different ages, not the classic type of beauty, but real people: joys and sorrows, with a lot of imagination. Papi and Piercarlo are two men who carry out their existence with tranquility and serenity until, one day, “the rain” arrives and this ideal life is turned upside down. When there are problems, we are never prepared to face them, but we must. The comedy talks about love, humanity, truth, sharing. On stage two actors, one house, two lives that are one life. Text written in 2004, it now finds the stage lights in a society that is reviewing its social relationships, coordinating with the European line of civilization, canceling the shadows that we often hide, even from our rationality. The protagonists of the Piece are Leo Gullotta and myself, also signing script and direction.
— Fabio Grossi