Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa by Ray Cooney at Teatro de’ Servi, from February 23 to March 7, 2027

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa, the farce by Ray Cooney in the adaptation and with the direction of Matteo Vacca, is on stage at Teatro de' Servi, at Via del Mortaro 22 in Rome, from Tuesday, February 23 to Sunday, March 7, 2027. Performances are Tuesday to Friday at 21:00, Saturday at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday at 17:30. The ticket costs €25, according to the theater's official website, and the show is part of the season's fixed subscription. Teatro de' Servi is on a side street of Via del Tritone, about a hundred meters from the Trevi Fountain and inside the limited traffic zone: the easiest way to get there is metro line A to Barberini, then a few minutes' walk downhill. Tickets are bought on the official website of Teatro de' Servi, which links to the authorized presale circuit, or by calling the theater at 06 6795130. The production is by La Bilancia Produzioni.

Language: opera sung in its original language; no English surtitles are announced, so check with the theater.

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa at Teatro de' Servi: dates, times and tickets

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa stays on the bill at Teatro de' Servi for two weeks, from February 23 to March 7, 2027, with a single ticket at €25 and evening and afternoon performances.

The performance calendar

The times published by the theater are the same for both weeks: Tuesday to Friday at 21:00. Saturday has two performances, at 17:30 and at 21:00. Sunday has a single afternoon performance at 17:30. There are no performances on Monday. The debut is on Tuesday, February 23, and the last performance is on Sunday, March 7.

The price and the subscription

The de' Servi website lists a price of €25. The official poster notes that the title is included in the fixed subscription of the 2026/27 season: anyone who already has the card in their pocket has an assigned seat, and anyone buying a single ticket chooses among the remaining seats. The theater also offers sign-up to its newsletter, which according to the website entitles you to a 20 percent discount.

Where to buy tickets

Online purchase starts from the show's page on the Teatro de' Servi website, which links to the authorized presale circuit. Alternatively you can contact the box office at 06 6795130 or write to info@teatroservi.it. For Saturday evening it's best to move a few days ahead: it is the most requested performance in a hall of modest size.

The plot of Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa: a minister, a lover and a window

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa tells of the disastrous night of the Honorable De Mitri, deputy minister of Labor, who wants to meet in secret, in a suite of the Grand Hotel, his lover, the secretary of the opposition leader.

Suite 648

According to the theater's presentation, the appointment is set in suite 648 of a grand hotel. The idea is simple: a night away from prying eyes, with a woman he shouldn't even greet for political reasons. But nothing goes as planned: behind the window a corpse appears, and the hotel staff show a decidedly excessive curiosity.

The aide

The one called on to save the deputy minister from scandal is his faithful aide, Giorgio Franchetti. He is the real comic engine: an honest and mild man who, to cover for his boss, finds himself telling ever bigger lies, changing identity, defending versions of the facts that are completely indefensible. The presentation speaks of incredible and hilarious situations, faced against his will.

Lies, gags, misunderstandings

The theater sums up the rhythm of the show in five words: lies, gags, misunderstandings, betrayals, mistaken identities. It is the vocabulary of classic farce, in which every solution found to get out of trouble opens new trouble, and in which the audience always knows something more than the characters. The ending, of course, is not revealed.

Ray Cooney, the author: the English Feydeau

Ray Cooney, born in London on May 30, 1932, is a British playwright, actor and director, author of 17 plays staged in the West End and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire since 2005 for services to the theater.

Early years as an actor

Cooney began acting in 1946 and between the 1950s and 1960s he was on stage in many of the farces at the Whitehall Theatre produced by Brian Rix, the school from which his craft as a comic author was born. In those years he co-wrote his first play, One for the Pot, and with Tony Hilton he wrote the screenplay of the film What a Carve Up!, released in 1961.

The West End record

His biggest success is Run for Your Wife, from 1983, which stayed on the bill in London for nine years and is considered the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End. His titles also include Not Now, Darling, written with John Chapman and made into a film in 1973, Move Over Mrs. Markham, Two into One, It Runs in the Family, Funny Money and Caught in the Net.

The Theatre of Comedy

In 1983 Cooney founded the Theatre of Comedy Company and became its artistic director. Under his direction the company produced more than 20 shows, including a Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole and John Thaw, Loot and Run for Your Wife itself. With his son Michael, a screenwriter, he wrote the farce Tom, Dick and Harry in 1993.

Success in France

In France Cooney is much loved and is called the English Feydeau, in homage to the great vaudeville author Georges Feydeau. Many of his comedies have been staged for the first time, or revived, at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris. In 1975 he was the subject of an episode of the television program This Is Your Life, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews at the Savoy Hotel in London.

From Out of Order to the Roman stage: the story of the comedy

The Laurence Olivier award mentioned by Teatro de' Servi refers to Out of Order, the farce Ray Cooney wrote in 1990 and which won the Olivier for best comedy in 1991. Its plot, with a young minister, a secretary, a hotel suite and a faulty window, matches the one presented by the Roman theater.

The London debut

Out of Order had a long run at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, with Donald Sinden and Michael Williams in the lead roles. As in other Cooney comedies, at the center is a prominent man forced to lie to get out of an embarrassing situation, helped by an innocent accomplice who gets more and more tangled up in the story the first one improvises. The action takes place in an elegant hotel and revolves around the mishaps caused by a sash window that doesn't work.

A comedy that went around the world

The text has had a very long international life. In France it became Panique au Plazza, with Christian Clavier. In Hungary it became a successful film. In Poland it was staged in Warsaw and in many other cities. In Moscow it was produced by the Art Theater. There have been productions in Beijing, in Singapore and in Kuala Lumpur, and a Hindi adaptation in Delhi. In Italy, Marco Risi's film Natale a 5 stelle, released in theaters on December 24, 2018, takes up the same plot and moves it to Budapest.

The Italian title

The title doesn't sound new to Italian audiences. Se devi dire una bugia dilla grossa is a comedy directed in 1986 by Pietro Garinei from a story by Ray Cooney, with Johnny Dorelli, Paola Quattrini, Gloria Guida and Riccardo Garrone, broadcast by Rai. A second edition, in 2000, starred Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Paola Quattrini, Fabio Testi and Anna Falchi. Paola Quattrini also returned in the third one, in 2022. The de' Servi production is a new adaptation, signed by Matteo Vacca.

The direction and the company of Matteo Vacca

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa at de' Servi carries the signature of Matteo Vacca, who handles the adaptation and the direction and is also on stage, with Marco Fiorini, Alessandro Bevilacqua, Cristiano Arsì, Eleonora Santini, Serena Ricci, Elena Pandolfi and Martina Cervoni.

A director who has already worked with Cooney

Matteo Vacca's name has been tied to Cooney's theater for some time: in 2019 he directed a production of Taxi a due piazze, the Italian version of Run for Your Wife. Going back to the English author with another of his most famous mechanisms means working on a familiar repertoire, in which comic timing counts as much as the lines.

An in-house production

The show is presented by La Bilancia Produzioni. La Bilancia is the company that has run Teatro de' Servi since July 2002, so the comedy is an in-house production, designed for the hall on Via del Mortaro and its regular audience.

Eight actors for a farce

The company has eight performers. In a farce of doors, windows and disguises the number is not a detail: every entrance at the wrong moment is a cog in the comic machine, and the precision of the entrances decides if the whole evening works.

How a Ray Cooney farce works

Ray Cooney's farces combine the traditional cheekiness of British comedy with a very complicated structure, in which the characters jump to wrong conclusions, are forced to pretend to be what they are not and often talk without understanding each other.

The lie that grows

The Italian title says it all: the first lie is small, but to sustain it you need a bigger one, and then another. The fun lies in watching the construction become more and more unstable, until the moment when everything seems destined to collapse.

The innocent accomplice

The key character in Cooney is often the one who is not at fault. Here it is the aide Giorgio Franchetti: he pays the price for the deputy minister's lies, and he is the one the audience ends up growing fond of. In our opinion it is the hardest part to play, because it requires staying believable while the situation plunges into the absurd.

Comedy of precision

Farce is a genre that doesn't forgive: one second of delay and the line falls flat. Anyone who loves stage comedy knows how to recognize the work of timing and rhythm that hides behind an apparently easy laugh, and that is what a Cooney production is measured on.

A curiosity about Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa by Ray Cooney at Teatro de' Servi, February 23 to March 7, 2027

The tastiest curiosity concerns the career of Out of Order, the English text that won the Olivier in 1991. Born as a farce about the bad habits of British politics, the comedy has proved surprisingly easy to transplant: in every country you only need to change the name of the party and of the ministry, and the mechanism works. It has been adapted into French, Polish, Russian and Hindi. In Hungary it became a successful film. In Italy it supplied the plot of Marco Risi's Natale a 5 stelle, in which the protagonist is even the prime minister on a trip to Budapest. In the de' Servi adaptation the protagonist is instead a deputy minister of Labor and the lover is the secretary of the opposition leader: a marital betrayal that is also a political betrayal. The second curiosity concerns the author. Before conquering the West End with 17 comedies, Ray Cooney spent years on stage as an actor in the farces of Brian Rix's Whitehall Theatre: his writing is born from the stage, from someone who knows from experience how long a laugh lasts and when to bring on the next character. The third curiosity is close to home: the title is a production of the same company that has run the theater since 2002.

Teatro de' Servi: a hall born in a convent garden

Teatro de' Servi is a hall in the Trevi district, built in 1950 in the large vegetable garden and garden of the convent attached to the parish of Santa Maria in Via, between Via del Tritone and the Trevi Fountain.

The opening with Eduardo

The hall opened to the public on April 26, 1957 with Eduardo De Filippo's company and the world premiere of De Pretore Vincenzo. Direction by Eduardo, sets by Titina De Filippo, music by Renzo Rossellini. In the main roles were Achille Millo and Valeria Moricone, who made her theater debut on that occasion.

The censorship case

The history published by the theater recalls that, right after the premiere, the Vicariate imposed censorship on the play, amid heated controversy in the city, and that de' Servi had to stay closed for a few months. A turbulent start for a hall that would become a landmark for Roman audiences.

Years of works and reopenings

Until the end of the 1970s de' Servi hosted Italian and foreign companies, concerts and chamber opera. The safety regulations of the 1980s required a series of works: the hall closed at the end of the 1983 season, reopened in 1984 with 252 seats, closed again in 1988 and went back into operation at the beginning of 1990.

La Bilancia management

Since July 2002 the theater has been run by the company La Bilancia, which renovated the systems and spaces, with the contribution of the set designer and architect Massimo Marafante. For more than 10 years the program has focused on Italian comedy by living authors, with forays into the repertoire. This season titles such as Se ti sposo mi rovino and Niente progetti per il futuro have played here.

Something nobody tells you about Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa by Ray Cooney at Teatro de' Servi, February 23 to March 7, 2027

What the previews don't say is that, in a farce like this, the size of the hall changes the experience. De' Servi is an intimate theater: reopened in 1984 with 252 seats, it keeps a scale in which even the farthest rows are close to the stage. For a comedy built on doors that open at the wrong moment, panicked expressions and knowing looks, closeness is a huge advantage: every grimace lands, no line gets lost in empty space. The second thing concerns the title. Anyone who has seen Garinei's old comedy on television with Johnny Dorelli, or one of its revivals with Paola Quattrini, might think they already know the story. Not necessarily: the plot presented by de' Servi, with the deputy minister, the opposition's secretary and the corpse behind the window, matches that of Out of Order, the 1990 farce, and the adaptation is new. My advice is to go without preconceptions. The third thing concerns the calendar: the afternoon shows at 17:30 on Saturday and Sunday are, in our opinion, the best fit for those coming from outside Rome, because they leave time for an unhurried dinner and a relaxed trip home.

How to get to Teatro de' Servi for Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa

Teatro de' Servi is at Via del Mortaro 22, a side street off Via del Tritone a few steps from the Trevi Fountain. It is in the historic center, inside the ZTL, and the most convenient metro stop is Barberini, on line A.

By metro

Coming out of Barberini station you walk down Via del Tritone for a few minutes, until the turn for Via del Mortaro. Piazza Barberini is about 570 meters from the theater as the crow flies: on the way there it's a downhill walk, on the way back after 23:00 a short climb.

By surface transport

Via del Tritone is served by several surface public transport lines. To choose the line and the stop best suited to your starting point, it's worth using ATAC's route planner. If you arrive from Piazza Venezia, you can walk up Via del Corso to Piazza Colonna, about 200 meters from the theater, and continue on foot.

By car and taxi

De' Servi is inside the limited traffic zone: if you arrive by car, check the gate hours and leave the car outside the ZTL, in a parking garage, continuing by metro or on foot. For evening shows a taxi remains the most convenient solution, especially on the cold evenings of late February.

My advice for visiting Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa by Ray Cooney at Teatro de' Servi, February 23 to March 7, 2027

My advice is to make the show the center of a whole evening in the Trevi district, taking advantage of a location that few Roman theaters can claim. The Trevi Fountain is about 110 meters away, the Galleria Alberto Sordi 130, the Galleria Sciarra and Piazza Colonna about 200. Anyone who arrives an hour before the 21:00 show can make the full circuit without rushing. There is also a thematic pairing, for those who like games of reference: a few minutes on foot away is Montecitorio, home of the Chamber of Deputies, with the obelisk in front of the palace. Walking past the real Parliament before laughing at the troubles of an imaginary deputy minister adds a touch of irony to the evening. The second piece of advice concerns the choice of date: the first weekday performances are usually the quietest, and Saturday at 21:00 is the most requested show. The third concerns attitude: in a Cooney farce it's best to let go from the first scene, without looking for plausibility, because the pleasure is precisely in the accumulation of the absurd.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that Ray Cooney holds the record for the longest-running comedy in the West End, with Run for Your Wife staying on stage for nine years. It is less often remembered that the same comedy has a specific Roman history. In Italian it is called Taxi a due piazze: translated and edited by Iaia Fiastri, it debuted at the Teatro Sistina in Rome on March 30, 1984, directed by Pietro Garinei and performed by Johnny Dorelli, Paola Quattrini, Martine Brochard, Riccardo Garrone, Paolo Panelli and Toni Ucci. In Fiastri's adaptation the two homes of the bigamist taxi driver, Mario Rossi, were placed in Piazza del Risorgimento and Piazza Irnerio, defined by the script as four minutes apart by car: a detail that raised some doubts about the plausibility of the story, at least among spectators in the capital. Cooney's theater, in short, entered the Italian comedy tradition precisely by way of Rome, thanks to the pairing of Garinei and Dorelli, who in those years also staged Se devi dire una bugia dilla grossa. In the following years Taxi a due piazze was revived several times, with Gianluca Guidi, Dorelli's son, and in 2023 in a female version with Barbara D'Urso. Matteo Vacca, who directs the de' Servi show, had put on a production of it in 2019.

The right photo to take at Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa by Ray Cooney at Teatro de' Servi, February 23 to March 7, 2027

In the orchestra seats, during the performance, the phone stays in your pocket: in a farce built on comic timing a lit screen distracts those on stage and those sitting next to you, and photos taken in house lighting don't turn out well anyway. The right photo is taken outside. The first is in front of the theater entrance, on Via del Mortaro, next to the official poster with the light blue frame on a yellow background: a cheerful image that fixes title, date and place. The second is in Piazza Colonna, a stone's throw from Montecitorio: for a comedy about a deputy minister on the run from a scandal, a square of Roman politics lit up in the evening is the perfect themed shot. The third is the Trevi Fountain after the 21:00 show. Around 23:00, at the end of February, the crowd thins out and the travertine, under artificial light, takes on a warm color that it doesn't have by day: just wait for a gap to open in front of the basin and shoot without flash, which flattens the water and bothers the people around you. If you like detail shots, you can also look for the covered passage of the Galleria Alberto Sordi, with its glass and iron structure, a few steps from the theater.

Around Teatro de' Servi: what to see before and after the show

Around Teatro de' Servi, within five minutes on foot, you'll find the Trevi Fountain, the Galleria Alberto Sordi, the Galleria Sciarra, Piazza Colonna, the Accademia di San Luca and, uphill, the Quirinale.

Trevi and the galleries

The Trevi Fountain is about 110 meters away. The Galleria Alberto Sordi connects Via del Tritone and Piazza Colonna under a glass and iron roof. The Galleria Sciarra, about 200 meters away, is a covered courtyard with walls painted in the late 1800s. The Accademia di San Luca is about 120 meters from the theater.

The Quirinale and Piazza di Spagna

Going up you reach the Quirinal Palace, about 340 meters away, with the square looking out over the city. In the opposite direction, about 450 meters away, is Piazza di Spagna. The Pantheon can be reached in about 10 minutes.

Another theater nearby

In the same area is the Teatro Quirino Vittorio Gassman, one of the great drama theaters of the center: anyone spending a few days in Rome can build a small theater itinerary between the two halls.

Some important events that happened here in history

The history of Teatro de' Servi begins in 1950, when the building was constructed in the vegetable garden and garden of the convent next to the parish of Santa Maria in Via, in the Trevi district. Seven years later, on April 26, 1957, Eduardo De Filippo's company inaugurated the hall with the world premiere of De Pretore Vincenzo: direction by Eduardo, sets by Titina De Filippo, music by Renzo Rossellini, with Achille Millo and Valeria Moricone in her theater debut. Right after, the Vicariate imposed censorship on the play, the city split into controversy and the theater stayed closed for a few months. Once the storm passed, until the end of the 1970s de' Servi became a landmark for Roman audiences, with Italian and foreign companies, concerts and chamber opera. In the 1980s the new safety regulations for entertainment venues arrived: at the end of the 1983 season 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 La Bilancia, which renovated the systems and spaces with the set designer and architect Massimo Marafante and steered the program toward contemporary Italian comedy. Between February and March 2027 the same company stages its own production of Ray Cooney, one of the great authors of farce in English theater, an Olivier winner and West End record holder.

Who has passed through Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa by Ray Cooney at Teatro de' Servi, February 23 to March 7, 2027

Through the stage of de' Servi, according to the history published by the theater, have passed names that tell more than half a century of entertainment in Rome. First of all Eduardo De Filippo with his company, with Titina De Filippo on sets, Achille Millo and Valeria Moricone. Then actors such as Aldo Giuffrè, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Silvio Spaccesi, Giusi Raspani Dandolo, Carlo Tamberlani, Jole Fierro and Walter Maestosi. Foreign performers such as Robert Alda and Eva Bartok. Directors such as Mario Landi, Luciano Lucignani and Renzo Giacchieri. Music brought to Via del Mortaro conductors such as Massimo Pradella and Renzo Rossellini, opera singers such as Katia Ricciarelli, Giuseppe Sabatini and Pietro Spagnoli, ensembles such as I Solisti Romani of Massimo Coen and the Società del Quartetto, and also Eduardo Bennato and the Momix. Between February 23 and March 7, 2027 the same stage welcomes Matteo Vacca, director and performer, with Marco Fiorini, Alessandro Bevilacqua, Cristiano Arsì, Eleonora Santini, Serena Ricci, Elena Pandolfi and Martina Cervoni. And, ideally, Ray Cooney passes through too, who had already come to Rome more than 40 years ago on the Sistina stage with Taxi a due piazze: an author raised on the farces of London's Whitehall, in a hall inaugurated by Eduardo, the Italian master of comedy.

Which show to choose for Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa

With two weeks on the calendar and three different start times, Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa at de' Servi lets you choose the performance based on the kind of evening you want to spend in the center.

Tuesday to Friday evenings

At 21:00, on weekdays, the hall is attended mostly by a Roman audience that arrives after work. Dinner comes after the show and the center, at that hour, is quieter.

Saturday

Saturday offers two shows, at 17:30 and at 21:00. The afternoon one leaves the evening free, the evening one is the most requested: for Saturday, February 27 and Saturday, March 6 it's best to book early.

Sunday

Sunday at 17:30 is the most convenient choice for those who come from outside Rome and want to head home in the evening, and for families with kids who have school on Monday.

Where to eat near Teatro de' Servi

Around the Trevi Fountain many restaurants work on passing tourist trade, with high prices and variable quality: for dinner before or after the show it's worth moving a few streets away, toward the streets below the Quirinale or in the direction of the Pantheon.

Dinner after 21:00

With the evening show, dinner comes after, in the Roman way: my advice is to book a place that welcomes guests even after 23:00, so you don't have to choose in a rush on the way out of the theater.

Aperitivo before 17:30

With the Saturday and Sunday afternoon shows you leave the theater at dinner time. Before the performance a stop at the counter of a café, Roman style, is enough: it costs little and lasts just the right amount of time.

Accessibility, kids and practical information

Teatro de' Servi is an intimate hall, renovated several times to bring it up to safety regulations. For information on accessibility for people with mobility disabilities and on reserved seats, it's best to contact the theater before buying, at 06 6795130 or at info@teatroservi.it.

With kids

The comedy plays on marital betrayals, misunderstandings and mistaken identities, in the register of farce: it is suitable for older kids and adults, less for small children, who would struggle to follow a plot made of fast dialogue and crossed lies. The theater's website has a section dedicated to schools.

Late February in Rome

Between late February and early March the Roman evenings are still cold, and a heavy jacket is useful above all for the walk after the 21:00 show. It is a low-season period, with fewer visitors even around the Trevi Fountain: the best time of year to enjoy the district at your own pace.

Frequently asked questions about Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa

When is Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa at Teatro de' Servi?

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa is on stage at Teatro de' Servi in Rome from February 23 to March 7, 2027. Performances are Tuesday to Friday at 21:00, Saturday at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday at 17:30. There are no performances on Monday.

How much does a ticket cost?

For Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa Teatro de' Servi publishes a price of 25 euros. Tickets are bought from the theater's official website, which links to the authorized presale network, or by calling 06 6795130. The show is included in the season's fixed subscription.

Who is in Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa?

In Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa at de' Servi the performers are Matteo Vacca, Marco Fiorini, Alessandro Bevilacqua, Cristiano Arsì, Eleonora Santini, Serena Ricci, Elena Pandolfi and Martina Cervoni. Adaptation and direction are by Matteo Vacca, and the production is by La Bilancia Produzioni.

What is Ray Cooney's comedy about?

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa tells the night of deputy minister De Mitri, who wants to meet his lover, the secretary of the opposition leader, in a suite at the Grand Hotel. A corpse behind the window sends everything into a tailspin, and the aide Giorgio Franchetti has to invent bigger and bigger lies.

What award did the comedy win?

Teatro de' Servi recalls that Ray Cooney's comedy won the Laurence Olivier award for best comedy in London. The recognition went to Out of Order, the 1990 farce awarded in 1991, with the same plot of the deputy minister, the secretary and the faulty window.

Who is Ray Cooney?

Ray Cooney is an English playwright, actor and director born in London in 1932, author of Run for Your Wife, the longest-running comedy in the West End, known in Italy as Taxi a due piazze. In France he is called the English Feydeau. Since 2005 he has been an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Where is Teatro de' Servi?

Teatro de' Servi is at Via del Mortaro 22, a side street off Via del Tritone about 100 meters from the Trevi Fountain, in the Trevi district. The nearest metro stop is Barberini, on line A. The theater is inside the limited traffic zone.

Final advice on Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa

Se devi dire una bugia è meglio dirla grossa is a farce in the fullest sense of the word: a mechanism of doors, lies and mistaken identities written by one of the masters of the genre, awarded in London and performed in half the world. At de' Servi it arrives in an in-house production, with adaptation and direction by an artist who already knows Cooney's repertoire, in an intimate hall where every line reaches the last row. In our opinion it is the right choice for those looking for an evening of laughs with no intellectual pretensions, for those who love English-style comedy and for those who fondly remember the comedies of Garinei and Dorelli. My advice is to choose a weekday performance or the Saturday afternoon one, arrive early for a walk among Trevi, Piazza Colonna and Montecitorio, and leave any demand for plausibility at home. The 25 euro ticket, for an evening of theater 100 meters from the Trevi Fountain, is an honest price.

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