Shakespeare a Palermo

The story

In the late 1990s, in a dilapidated theater in the heart of Palermo, Carlo Cecchi is working on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the second play in his Shakespearean trilogy, translated by the poet Patrizia Cavalli. Director Francesca Comencini – who sees Cecchi as the last representative of an Italy not subservient to the media and Berlusconi’s power – decides to follow him and is allowed to film the show’s rehearsals, on the condition that she does it all on her own and with discretion.

Cast

C Carlo Cecchi I Iaia Forte V Valerio Binasco A Arturo Cirillo V Vito Di Bella V Viola Graziosi A Andre Pushkin L Lorenza Indovina T Tommaso Ragno R Roberto De Francesco S Spiro Scimone F Francesco Sframeli