Mr. Green is, like Mario Mattia
Giorgetti's production itself,
somewhat operatic. A month into
a planned two-year tour of Italy,
Corrado Pani, the brilliant
theatre and film star (Rocco in
Visconti's classic Rocco and his
Brothers) died suddenly in
January, 2005.
After an enormous response by
critics and the public at both
Teatro Vittorio Gassman in
Borgio Verezzi and Teatro della
Cometa in Rome, the production
which also starred Maximilian Nisi
as Ross Gardiner, suddenly
ended.
Corrado Pani was so
well-respected and so celebrated
for this performacnce, that out of
respect for him, it was decided to
let some time pass before
beginning a new Italian language
production.
