Troisi-Arena-Decaro - The Smorfia
In 1976, the trio Troisi-Arena-Decaro is called The Saracens, the following year became the Smorfia.
In the theater immediately achieved success at local level first, then also national (Roman land at the cabaret La Chanson and local Northern Italy). The radio makes the famous trio in the transmission Sincerely together where offer the famous sketch of Noah's Ark, Annunciation, Soldiers, San Gennaro and many others. The celebrity comes with television broadcasts Non Stop (1977) - will be here that will tighten two fundamental and lasting friendships: the one with Marco Messeri and the other with Anna Pavignano - The Faceman (1978) and Luna Park (1979) directed by television directors Enzo Trapani and Eros Macchi. The last of the trio is the play Right You Are (if you like), so the quote is (if you like) of Luigi Pirandello. Troisi is the leader of the trio, screened at the new role of interpreter of the Neapolitan tradition. With his gestures and facial expressions and his gibbering and aphasic language, at times almost incomprehensible - reminiscent of some interminable monologues by Eduardo De Filippo - expresses an ironic criticism of the old Neapolitan styles and clichés of the company ...
The Smorfia was a cabaret group active in the seventies and eighties.
The trio, originally called the Saracens, was formed by Massimo Troisi, Lello Arena and Enzo Decaro and based on his comedy sketches, drawing inspiration from everyday situations of Naples at the time, pointing the index on topics as diverse as religion, employment (and unemployment), folklore and traditions anachronistic but still lives mainly in Naples.
After good statements are outside the local theater, the trio enjoyed its greatest period of notoriety when he was the protagonist of the television and the subsequent Non Stop The Faceman.
Annunciation
San Gennaro
Massimo
Troisi
