Wednesday 6 August at 9.00 pm – Villa Arbusto – FREE ENTRY
A show that combines comedy and introspection, capable of making the public reflect and have fun at the same time.
“Word to the Defense” is a short comedy in two paintings created and directed by Giuseppe Lacono, for a tribute to the legal theater of the English playwright John Mortimer.
What would happen if an inexperienced lawyer without clients wanted to defend, at all costs, a murderer who considers himself absolutely guilty of the crime of which he has been accused? What if the accused considered totally
was the punishment inflicted on him fair and was he also comfortable in prison?
The play, performed by the same lacono with Vincenzo Esposito, takes place in a cell in Poggioreale, where a person under investigation for femicide, Sergio Pienabarca, reluctantly awaits his procedural fate. The man seems resigned to paying for his guilt, at least, until a penniless and bizarre public defender, Luigi Bongiorno, comes into play, who, in order to scrape together some money and some fame from that ” cause lost”, tries in every way to convince Pienabarca to collaborate and motivate himself in order to overturn a situation that would seem hopeless. A close, very human and dramatically comical confrontation begins between the two in a paradoxical dramaturgical experience that overturns the common stereotypes of accusation and defense.
