Alone on stage, Toni Servillo, 64, interpreted in Italian texts by the Neapolitan writer Giuseppe Montesano during this sold-out show.
The performance was interrupted definitively after about 45 minutes, following a fall of the actor, victim of a "vagal malaise", said the theater to AFP. "He's fine," he added.
Originally from Naples, Toni Servillo is the favorite actor of director Paolo Sorrentino, who gave him an international stature by entrusting him with the role of Jep Gambardella in "La grande Bellezza" (Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2014).
Impressive by his art of metamorphosis, he had always played under Sorrentino's direction the politicians Giulio Andreotti in "Il Divo" (2008) and Silvio Berlusconi in the biopic "Silvio and the Others" (2018).
More recently, in 2022 he played Pope Paul VI in Marco Bellochio's series "Esterno notte" about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro's statesman by the Red Brigades.
Coming from a family passionate about theatre, Toni Servillo has also directed plays by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Eduardo De Filippo, as well as several operas.
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