On Thursday, June 18, at 6 pm, the Italian Institute of Culture in New York is pleased to host the show Lu Santo Jullàre Françesco by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, in the direct version and interpreted by Matthias Martelli.
The show arrives in New York as part of an international tour celebrating three important celebrations of 2026: the eight hundred years since the death of St. Francis of Assisi, the centenary of the birth of Dario Fo and the tenth anniversary of his disappearance.
Written on the model of the famous Mistero Buffo, Lu Santo Jullàre Françesco intertwines jullarate and narrative moments in which the life of St. Francis becomes a mirror to question the present and in which the saint is not the reassuring figure of traditional agiography, but a rebel, visionary and radical man, able to discard the conventions and return to the Gospel message his revolutionary charge.
On stage alone, Matthias Martelli gives body and voice to a universe full of characters, mixing comic and poetic, sacred and profane, in a physical theatre where the actor relies solely on the power of gesture, voice and body.
Born in Arezzo in 1986, Matthias Martelli is a contemporary actor, playwright and jullar, as he himself, internationally recognized as a natural heir of the theatrical tradition of Dario Fo. His Mistero Buffo, directed by Eugenio Allegri, has surpassed the 270 replicas in Italy, Europe and the United States, consecrating it as one of the most original voices of the contemporary Italian scene.
The show is in Italian and is a co-production of the Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale and Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria.
L’articolo Matthias Martelli, the heir of Dario Fo, at the IIC with Lu Santo Jullàre Françesco proviene da IlNewyorkese.
