Over My Dead Body;
Or, How to Distribute Generational Wealth

It is pure Commedia dell’Arte.
The classic one, which in the middle of the Renaissance invented modern professionalism and theater.
Five centuries of continuity and it is still alive, lively, vital.
Directing the Laughing Stock Company is a pleasure corresponding to the very nature of the Comedy: dynamism.
The comedy is direct and is not "gentle", if anything, it is raw, harsh.
With OVER MY BODY; OR HOW TO DISTRIBUTE GENERATIONAL WEALTH, we are in the great classic of repeated, insistent cheating to get something that is important for the characters in action. No one is bad, but they are all gripped by the urgent need to not lose something that, they believe, is their own.
The intrigue around the will of the "dead", Pantalone, pretending to be such, triggers the hunt for the old man's wealth.
There is a historical reference to Dante's Inferno, to canto XXX, dedicated to counterfeiters, where Gianni Schicchi appears, later immortalized in Puccini's masterpiece.
In memory of the two greats, however, we did something else, an original, timeless, yet concretely human comedy. In Comedy there is no struggle between Good and Evil, there is instead the struggle for survival, between people, who for different reasons are in the urgency of a problem, which gives love, money, hunger, or fear.
In short, normal people. Of the spectacular version of normality that arises from the "mask", in which Comedy is the whole character.
The aim is to make the public spend two pleasant hours. The Comedy has been doing this for five centuries.

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