Due cuori in chat at Teatro de’ Servi, from October 27 to November 8, 2026

Due cuori in chat, the comedy by Ray Cooney adapted and directed by Matteo Vacca, is on stage at Teatro de' Servi in Rome from Tuesday, October 27, to Sunday, November 8, 2026. The theater is at Via del Mortaro 22, in the Trevi district, on the corner of Via del Tritone and about 100 meters from the Trevi Fountain. Performances are Tuesday to Friday at 21:00, Saturday at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday at 17:30, and the theater is closed on Monday. The nearest metro is Barberini, Line A, a few minutes' walk downhill along Via del Tritone. The theater's official website lists a 25 euro ticket. For information the theater answers at 06 6795130 and at info@teatroservi.it, and online purchase starts from the official Teatro de' Servi website, which links to the presale network authorized by the organizers. The show is presented by Politeama S.r.l.

Language: performed in Italian. No English version or English surtitles are announced.

Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi: dates, times and tickets

Due cuori in chat runs at the de' Servi for two weeks, from October 27 to November 8, 2026, with 14 performances. In the sales calendar it appears as 02, Due cuori in chat: it's the second numbered title of the 2026/2027 drama season, after Se ti sposo mi rovino.

The performance calendar

First week: Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 and Friday October 30 at 21:00, Saturday, October 31, at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday, November 1, at 17:30. Monday, November 2, day off. Second week: Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4, Thursday 5 and Friday November 6 at 21:00, Saturday 7 at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday, November 8, at 17:30, last performance. The sales page warns that the schedule may change.

How much it costs

The show page on the Teatro de' Servi website lists a 25 euro ticket. The theater also offers subscriptions and a discount for those who sign up for the newsletter, with conditions on the website. For groups it's best to call.

The bill

Politeama S.r.l. presents Due cuori in chat by Ray Cooney, adapted and directed by Matteo Vacca. On stage are Matteo Vacca, Marco Fiorini, Annalisa Amodio, Eleonora Santini, Martina Iuele, Riccardo Ubertini, Armando Puccio and Fabrizio Pallotta. Eight actors for a farce of mix-ups: the right number for a mechanism of doors, phones and lies.

The All Saints' long weekend

The first week fell on the All Saints' long weekend: Saturday, October 31, with two performances, and Sunday, November 1, a holiday, with the afternoon performance.

The plot of Due cuori in chat: a taxi driver, two wives, two children

Due cuori in chat tells the story of Mario Rossi, a Roman taxi driver who has been married for 20 years to Barbara, with whom he lives in Piazza Irnerio, and to Carla, with whom he lives in Piazza Risorgimento. The tagline the theater gives the description sums it all up: the secret of a happy marriage remains a secret, in this case a double secret.

Mario's system

Mario has two children: Alice, with Carla, and Giacomo, with Barbara. By carefully planning times and work shifts, he manages for years to hide his double family. The taxi is the perfect alibi: a job made of shifts, unexpected fares, hours nobody checks.

The chat

Then social media arrives. One day Alice and Giacomo, who don't know they are brother and sister, meet in a chat and decide to meet in person. The meeting cannot, indeed must not, happen: to prevent it the poor taxi driver, helped by his friend Walter, who is dealing with an elderly father of his own, tries by every means to keep the secret of his double life intact.

Mix-ups at a hellish pace

From here, according to the theater's description, comes a string of mix-ups, coincidences and lies that, at a hellish pace, leads to an unexpected ending. A show full of crazy comic situations, in which the audience becomes participant and accomplice: it knows everything the characters don't, and laughs precisely because of that.

Two Roman squares

The adaptation brings the story to Rome with two precise addresses. Piazza Risorgimento is the big square of Prati, a stone's throw from the Vatican walls, while Piazza Irnerio is in the Aurelio area, a few kilometers farther west. Two neighborhoods close enough for a taxi driver on the move, far enough apart for the two lives never to cross. It's a detail the Roman audience picks up instantly.

Why see Due cuori in chat: our verdict

Due cuori in chat is a classically built farce of mix-ups, written by a master of the genre and brought into the age of social media. It's the right evening for anyone looking for two hours of skillfully built laughs, in an intimate hall in the center.

Who it's for

For couples, groups of friends, families with teenagers, for those who love English-style comedy and for those taking a parent to the theater. The mechanism is universal: one man, two homes, a secret about to blow up.

What it isn't

It isn't experimental theater and it doesn't aim to make a statement. The chat in the title is the detonator of the mix-up, not an essay on social media. Those who go with this expectation come out satisfied, and those looking for something else should pick another title.

Our opinion

Plainly put: Ray Cooney's farces are among the most solid comic texts of the 20th century, and they stand up to any adaptation, provided the company has the right timing. A medium-sized hall like the de' Servi is the ideal place to see them: the audience is close, you hear the doors slamming, the laughter bounces around.

Ray Cooney: biography of the author of Due cuori in chat

Ray Cooney, born Raymond George Alfred Cooney, was born in London on May 30, 1932. A comedy writer, playwright and actor, he is the best-known name of British farce in the second half of the 20th century and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Early days as an actor

Cooney began acting in 1946, at 14. In the 1950s and 1960s he appeared in several of the Whitehall farces produced by Brian Rix, the school where his sense of comic timing was formed. In the same period he co-wrote his first comedy, One for the Pot.

Film

With Tony Hilton he wrote the screenplay of the British film What a Carve Up!, from 1961, with Sid James and Kenneth Connor. His farce Not Now, Darling, written with John Chapman, became a successful film in 1973. Cooney has also appeared on television and in a few feature films.

Run for Your Wife

His greatest success is Run for Your Wife, from 1983, which ran in London's West End theaters for nine consecutive years: his longest-running comedy. In all, 17 of his plays have been staged in the West End.

The Theatre of Comedy

In 1983 Cooney founded the Theatre of Comedy company and became its artistic director. Under his leadership the company produced more than 20 shows, including Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole and John Thaw, Loot and Run for Your Wife itself.

The comedies

His catalog spans 60 years: Who Were You With Last Night?, Charlie Girl, Move Over Mrs. Markham, Why Not Stay for Breakfast?, There Goes the Bride, Two into One, Wife Begins at 40, It Runs in the Family, Out of Order, Funny Money, Caught in the Net, Tom, Dick and Harry, Time's Up. He wrote Tom, Dick and Harry with his son Michael, screenwriter of the film Identity with John Cusack.

The Cooney method

His farces combine traditional English mischief with iron-clad structural complications: the characters are forced to pretend to be what they are not and leap from assumption to assumption, with hilarious effects. It's a theater of comic engineering, in which every lie requires another, bigger one, and the audience watches the construction grow until it collapses.

The honor

In 2005 Cooney was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to drama. For an author of farces, a genre critics often look down on, it's an honor that says a lot.

Matteo Vacca's adaptation and the company

Matteo Vacca adapted and directed Due cuori in chat and is also on stage, leading a company of eight actors. The triple role is common in comic theater: the adapter knows every line, the director controls the timing, the actor tests it every night in front of the audience.

From Cooney's London to the Rome of social media

The work of adaptation can already be seen in the plot: Italian names, two Roman squares, a taxi driver who knows the city like the back of his hand, and above all the chat as the engine of the mix-up. It's the most direct way to bring into the present a mechanism born for a world without phones in pockets.

The performers

On stage with Matteo Vacca are Marco Fiorini, Annalisa Amodio, Eleonora Santini, Martina Iuele, Riccardo Ubertini, Armando Puccio and Fabrizio Pallotta. The description doesn't assign the roles, so check the program in the theater.

Politeama

The show is presented by Politeama S.r.l., the production company bringing the title to the de' Servi for the two weeks of performances.

Teatro de' Servi: the hall in a convent garden

Teatro de' Servi is a medium-sized hall in the Trevi district, built in 1950 in the vegetable garden and garden of the convent next to the parish of Santa Maria in Via, facing Via del Tritone, with the Trevi Fountain a few steps away.

The opening with Eduardo

The hall was inaugurated on April 26, 1957, by Eduardo De Filippo's company, with the world premiere of De Pretore Vincenzo: directed by Eduardo, sets by Titina De Filippo, music by Renzo Rossellini, starring Achille Millo and Valeria Moricone, in her debut.

The censorship

According to the history published by the theater, after the premiere the Vicariate imposed censorship on the show, amid great controversy, and the hall stayed closed for a few months. A theater born in a convent garden that opens with a comedy censored by the church authorities: in Rome this happens too.

Closures and reopenings

In the 1980s safety regulations required works: the hall closed at the end of 1983, reopened in 1984 with 252 seats, closed again in 1988 and resumed activity at the beginning of 1990. Since July 2002 it has been managed by the company La Bilancia, which carried out new works with the architect and set designer Massimo Marafante.

Its vocation today

For more than 10 years the de' Servi has built its seasons on comedies, with living Italian authors, musical shows and its own productions. A Cooney farce adapted to Rome is in keeping with the house: the comedy of mix-ups is the genre the audience on Via del Mortaro comes looking for.

How to get to Teatro de' Servi for Due cuori in chat

Teatro de' Servi is at Via del Mortaro 22, a side street off Via del Tritone a stone's throw from the Trevi Fountain, inside the limited traffic zone (ZTL) of the historic center. The easiest way to get there is Metro A to Barberini.

By metro

From the Barberini stop you walk down Via del Tritone for a few minutes and turn toward Via del Mortaro. On the way there it's a pleasant downhill stroll, and on the way back, after the evening performances, a short climb.

By bus

Via del Tritone is one of the main surface transport routes in the center, and the lines that run along it stop a few steps from the theater. From Piazza Venezia you can also walk up Via del Corso to Piazza Colonna and reach the theater in five minutes through Galleria Alberto Sordi.

By car and taxi

The de' Servi is inside the ZTL. If you come by car, check the hours of the access gates and leave the car in a parking garage outside the limited traffic zone, then continue on foot or by metro. For the evening performances a taxi is the simplest solution, and for a comedy about a taxi driver, arriving by taxi makes a certain sense.

Around Teatro de' Servi: what to see a few steps away

Within five minutes' walk of Teatro de' Servi you reach the Trevi Fountain, Galleria Alberto Sordi, Galleria Sciarra, Piazza Colonna and the Quirinal. Few Roman theaters have such dense surroundings.

The Trevi Fountain

The Trevi Fountain is about 100 meters from the theater. In the evening it's lit and still crowded, and after 23:00 the crowd thins out and you can look at the basin calmly.

The galleries

Galleria Alberto Sordi connects Via del Tritone and Piazza Colonna under its glass and iron roof. Galleria Sciarra is a covered courtyard with late 19th-century paintings devoted to the female figure: for a comedy about a man split between two wives, a prelude with a touch of irony.

Piazza Colonna and the Quirinal

A few steps away opens Piazza Colonna, with the Column of Marcus Aurelius and Palazzo Chigi. Uphill you reach the Quirinal Palace. A little farther is Piazza di Spagna.

Another theater nearby

In the same area is Teatro Quirino Vittorio Gassman, one of the great drama theaters of the center. Those who saw Se ti sposo mi rovino here in early October will find the same hall with another comedy of mix-ups.

Where to eat near Teatro de' Servi

The Trevi area is full of restaurants geared to passing tourists, with high prices and variable quality. For dinner before or after the show it's better to move a few streets away, toward the streets below the Quirinal or toward the Pantheon, where there's more choice.

Before or after

With the 21:00 performance, dinner comes afterward, Roman style: book a place that takes guests after 23:00. With the 17:30 performances on Saturday and Sunday you come out at dinnertime, and the center offers plenty of options.

A coffee at the counter

Between the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon there are historic cafés and gelato shops. A stop at the counter before the show, as Romans do, costs less and lasts just long enough.

Accessibility, young people and practical information

Teatro de' Servi is a medium-sized hall, renovated several times to bring it up to safety standards, and after reopening in 1984 it had 252 seats. For accessibility for people with motor disabilities and reserved seats, contact the theater before buying, at 06 6795130 or info@teatroservi.it, and the phone box office answers Monday to Friday, from 10:00 to 20:00.

With teenagers

Due cuori in chat is a lively comedy about a father's double life. Kids aged 12 and up, used to chats, will get the mechanism instantly, while for small children the subject is of little interest. The Saturday and Sunday performances at 17:30 are the most convenient for families.

The rhythm of the evening

Between late October and early November Roman evenings turn cool, so you'll need a jacket. Arrive a quarter of an hour early: in a farce the first scenes set up Mario's system, and those who miss them struggle to follow the collapse that comes after.

A curious fact about Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi, from October 27 to November 8, 2026

The tastiest curious fact is the geography. Matteo Vacca's adaptation doesn't just give the characters Italian names: it places Mario Rossi's double life in two real squares, Piazza Irnerio and Piazza Risorgimento. The Roman audience knows exactly how far apart the two are, and immediately understands why a taxi driver is the perfect man for this system: nobody is surprised if a taxi crosses Prati and the Aurelio area 10 times a day. The protagonist's name is a choice too: Mario Rossi is the Italian equivalent of the average Joe, the name on sample forms.

The second curious fact concerns the number in the title. In the sales calendar the comedy appears as 02, Due cuori in chat, just as the previous title was 01, Se ti sposo mi rovino: the de' Servi numbers the titles of its drama season. Two farces of mix-ups in a row, one about a man who promises marriage to too many women and one about a man who has two wives, open the 2026/2027 season with the same theme turned upside down. Those who see both enjoy comparing them.

Something nobody tells you about Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi, from October 27 to November 8, 2026

What nobody says is that a Ray Cooney-style farce is clockwork that gets fine-tuned night after night. Every lie Mario tells breeds another, every entrance has to land on the exact second, and the audience laughs only if the mechanism is perfect. That's why the second-week performances, from November 3 to 8, are generally the ones where a comedy of this kind runs best: the company has gauged the audience's reactions and the timing has tightened.

The second thing nobody says concerns the crowds. On Saturday and Sunday the center of Rome is full of visitors, and the Trevi area is at its most crowded. If you choose the weekend, arrive well in advance and expect the crowd in front of the fountain. The third: Sunday, November 8, at 17:30 is the last performance, and the last performances of a farce often have a special energy, with the company allowing itself a few extra liberties. For lovers of the genre it's the date to mark.

My advice for seeing Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi, from October 27 to November 8, 2026

The advice is to build the evening on foot, without a car. Choose a second-week performance, for example Thursday, November 5, at 21:00. Arrive with Metro A at Barberini around 19:45, walk down Via del Tritone, pass through Galleria Sciarra and enter the theater a quarter of an hour early. When you come out the Trevi Fountain is 100 meters away: at night, with fewer people, you can really look at it.

Second tip, for those going in a group: call the theater. The de' Servi is a medium-sized hall, and the best seats for a group of eight or 10 people should be secured in advance, especially on Saturday night. Third tip, for those coming from outside Rome: the Sunday performance at 17:30 lets you get home the same evening, perhaps after a stroll between Trevi and the Pantheon.

One last tip, in the spirit of the show: go home by taxi. After two hours spent laughing at a taxi driver's lies, you'll look at the driver with different eyes.

Another well-known fact, yet seldom mentioned

Everyone knows that English farce has made half the world laugh, and many know the name Ray Cooney. It's less often remembered that his greatest success, Run for Your Wife, ran in London's West End for nine consecutive years, and that in all 17 of his plays have been staged in that theater district. Even less remembered is that Cooney began acting at 14, in 1946, and trained in Brian Rix's Whitehall farces: an actor's apprenticeship that explains why his scripts work so well on stage. He writes as someone who knows the stage from the inside.

The other well-known but seldom mentioned fact concerns the hall. Everyone knows Eduardo De Filippo, few remember that it was his company that inaugurated the de' Servi in 1957, with a comedy immediately censored by the Vicariate. The stage born with Eduardo, master of Neapolitan comedy, today hosts a master of English farce brought back to Rome: two different traditions, the same faith in a well-built comic mechanism.

The right photo to take at Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi, from October 27 to November 8, 2026

No photos in the hall during the show: it disturbs the actors and your neighbors, and in a comedy of precise timing a lit screen in the audience is noticed immediately. The right photo is taken outside. The first is at the theater entrance on Via del Mortaro, in front of the poster, perhaps sent in a chat to those who didn't come: it's the most fitting way to remember this evening.

The second is in Galleria Sciarra, a few steps away, with the lens pointed at the late 19th-century painted walls. The third is the Trevi Fountain at night, after the 21:00 performance: at that hour the crowd thins out and you just need to wait for a gap in front of the basin. Under artificial light the travertine takes on a warm color it doesn't have by day. Avoid the flash, which flattens the water. If you have time in the following days you can complete the series with Piazza Risorgimento, in Prati: Carla's home, according to the comedy, with the dome of St. Peter's not far away.

Some important events that happened here

The history of Teatro de' Servi begins in 1950, when the building was built in the vegetable garden and garden of the convent next to the parish of Santa Maria in Via, in the Trevi district. On April 26, 1957, Eduardo De Filippo's company inaugurated the hall with the world premiere of De Pretore Vincenzo, with Achille Millo and Valeria Moricone, sets by Titina De Filippo and music by Renzo Rossellini. Right afterward the Vicariate imposed censorship on the show, amid great controversy, and the theater stayed closed for a few months.

In the following years the de' Servi became a point of reference for the Roman public, with Italian and foreign companies, concerts and chamber opera. In the 1980s new safety regulations for entertainment venues required works: at the end of 1983 the hall closed for a year, reopened in 1984 with 252 seats, closed again in 1988 and resumed activity at the beginning of 1990. In July 2002 management passed to the company La Bilancia, which renovated the systems and spaces with the architect and set designer Massimo Marafante and built a program based on comedy. In autumn 2026 the drama season opens with two farces of mix-ups in a row: Se ti sposo mi rovino and Due cuori in chat.

Who has passed through Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi, from October 27 to November 8, 2026

According to the history published by the theater, the de' Servi stage has seen names that tell half a century of Roman entertainment. Besides Eduardo De Filippo and his company, with Achille Millo and Valeria Moricone, actors such as Aldo Giuffrè, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Silvio Spaccesi, Jole Fierro and Giusi Raspani Dandolo, and foreign performers such as Robert Alda and Eva Bartok. On the music side, conductors such as Massimo Pradella and Renzo Rossellini, opera singers such as Katia Ricciarelli and Giuseppe Sabatini, and I Solisti Romani of Massimo Coen. The list also includes Eduardo Bennato and Momix.

Between October and November 2026, Matteo Vacca and his company pass through here: Marco Fiorini, Annalisa Amodio, Eleonora Santini, Martina Iuele, Riccardo Ubertini, Armando Puccio and Fabrizio Pallotta. And, through his script, Ray Cooney, the author whose Run for Your Wife ran for nine consecutive years in West End theaters. Aldo Giuffrè and Fiorenzo Fiorentini, masters of Neapolitan and Roman laughter, are the ideal ancestors of an English farce transplanted between Prati and the Aurelio area.

How to plan the evening of Due cuori in chat

An evening at the de' Servi can be planned entirely on foot: metro to Barberini, walk down Via del Tritone, the show, a night stroll between Trevi and the Pantheon, dinner. Nothing else is needed.

Which performance to choose

Friday and Saturday evenings are the most requested performances, with the liveliest audience, and in a farce that's an advantage: people laugh more when the hall is full. Tuesday and Wednesday offer more choice of seats. The Sunday afternoon is the performance for families and for people coming from out of town.

With a group

For organized groups, associations and companies, the theater answers by phone and email: ask a few weeks in advance, giving the date and number of people, and get seats close together in the orchestra confirmed.

Rome between late October and early November

Late October and early November are busy weeks for Rome's comedy theaters. The weather is mild by day and cool in the evening, the historic center is busy but less stifling than in summer, and with the return of standard time darkness comes early: an evening at the theater becomes the natural way to end the day.

Ideas for the weekend

If you're in Rome for the November weekend you can pair the afternoon performance with a visit to Palazzo Barberini, near the metro, or to the Pantheon, within walking distance of the theater.

FAQ about Due cuori in chat

When is Due cuori in chat on stage at Teatro de' Servi?

Due cuori in chat is on stage at Teatro de' Servi in Rome from Tuesday, October 27, to Sunday, November 8, 2026. Performances are Tuesday to Friday at 21:00, Saturday at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday at 17:30. On Monday, November 2, the theater is closed.

How much is a ticket for Due cuori in chat?

The official Teatro de' Servi website lists a 25 euro ticket for Due cuori in chat. For information and bookings the theater answers at 06 6795130 and info@teatroservi.it, and online purchase starts from the theater's website.

Who wrote Due cuori in chat?

Due cuori in chat is a comedy by Ray Cooney, the London playwright born in 1932 and author of Run for Your Wife, adapted and directed by Matteo Vacca. Cooney is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

What is Due cuori in chat about?

Due cuori in chat tells the story of Mario Rossi, a Roman taxi driver with two wives and two homes, in Piazza Irnerio and Piazza Risorgimento. His secret holds for years, until his two children, Alice and Giacomo, meet in a chat and decide to meet in person without knowing they are siblings.

Who is in the cast of Due cuori in chat?

The cast of Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi includes Matteo Vacca, Marco Fiorini, Annalisa Amodio, Eleonora Santini, Martina Iuele, Riccardo Ubertini, Armando Puccio and Fabrizio Pallotta. The show is presented by Politeama S.r.l.

Where is Teatro de' Servi?

Teatro de' Servi is at Via del Mortaro 22, in the Trevi district, on the corner of Via del Tritone and about 100 meters from the Trevi Fountain. The nearest metro is Barberini, Line A. The theater is inside the ZTL of the historic center.

Is Due cuori in chat suitable for teenagers?

Due cuori in chat at Teatro de' Servi is a lively comedy of mix-ups, suitable for kids aged 12 and up, who will immediately recognize the chat mechanism. For families the most convenient performances are on Saturday and Sunday at 17:30.

The final word on Due cuori in chat

We close with a clear piece of advice: a Ray Cooney farce should be seen in an intimate hall, with the audience close and the laughter bouncing from one row to the next. The de' Servi is that hall. Choose a second-week performance, walk there from Barberini and head out toward the Trevi Fountain once the crowd has thinned.

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