Comoedia - 1929

COMMEDIA - MARINETTI - MUNARI - THEATRE - Rome Giovanni Treccani Institute 1929

The work was performed for the first time in Rome, at the Teatro Sperimentale degli Indipendenti, on December 12, 1929, with sets and costumes by Bruno Munari and stage structures by A.G. Bragaglia: "To read ‘The Naked Messager/Suggester’ while adhering to the text, one could almost say it is a ‘many characters who reject the author’... Perhaps it is a grand pamphlet about art, realized in a metaphorical style, in which we can decipher, behind the appearances created, the corresponding meanings: the castle, where the action begins, is life, and the stage is art, and Mario Applausi is the author himself, symbol and emblem of the futurist attitude opposed to reality, which in its various forms is struck, overturned, crushed, ridiculed, denied, in favor of total freedom: ‘We no longer want suggestors. We will live better without advice, without prudence, without what has already been done and without what has already been written’" (Mario Verdone, ‘The Theatre of Futurist Time’, Rome, Lerici, 1969; pp. 144-145).