Portugal – “In the darkness of human destiny”: Rubini gives voice to Pirandello

“In the darkness of human destiny: Pirandello and self-knowledge” is the title of the event being held that marks 150 years since the birth of the Nobel Prize winning author and which features the well-known actor and director Sergio Rubini. The event is planned for Thursday, 11 May, at 6:30 p.m., at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon, which is organising the event together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the De Sanctis Foundation. Mr Rubini will give voice to Pirandello in a sequence of readings selected from some of the writer’s literary works, particularly the novels The Late Mattia Pascal and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand and the novella The Train has Whistled. Mr Rubini’s reading will be preceded by a critical analysis by Professor Sebastiana Fadda, a literature, culture and theatre scholar and researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Arts.