A few years ago Giovanni Casula asked me to tell some stories he had written and from which he had started writing a book. Stories taken from experiences he lived as an educator within the Psychiatry Service (SPDC) of the SS Trinity Hospital in Cagliari. The book told fragments of intense humanity, the surprises, the empathy, the beauties and the distortions that he had seen and encountered since he began his work as an educator. We decided to cr...

Moby Dick does not tell a story. It is not a novel. Perhaps not even a book. It is a monster that stands among other written volumes as the white leviathan stands among other sea creatures. Moby Dick cannot be narrated, “though many have tried” (to quote Melville). What can a narrator do with it, then (and in the time of a narration)? He can at least make some incandescent fragments shine; make us sense, by synthesis, the entire light, the en...

Alessandro is the story of the life, exploits and works of an extraordinary intellectual. It is the story of a young man who chooses to keep his eyes open to the reality that surrounds him, to dedicate his life to giving light to what remains dark and hidden in the most terrible places, to commit himself to dismantling stereotypes and stock phrases with to which we distance ourselves from the dramas that pervade our present, to always and in any ...

A few years ago Giovanni Casula asked me to tell some stories he had written and from which he had started writing a book. Stories taken from experiences he lived as an educator within the Psychiatry Service (SPDC) of the SS Trinity Hospital in Cagliari. The book told fragments of intense humanity, the surprises, the empathy, the beauties and the distortions that he had seen and encountered since he began his work as an educator. We decided to cr...

Owl Rosmarino is the little owl we all would like for a friend, the courageous little brother who manages to transform every difficulty into a formidable opportunity for adventure. Rosmarino has the bold wisdom of the little ones in the world of adults, he sees things with the eyes of simplicity and for this reason he manages to find the right solution to every problem. You always have to get to the bottom of things to find a little light and per...

«I don't know who coined the expression Years of Lead. The fact is that this label stuck to my adolescence. To the point of almost making me feel guilty for having grown up in those years and for having laughed and loved and rejoiced in those years, years of murdered deaths. Because that lead calls for bullets. But lead is also the leaden gray of the fog, which covered Milan in those years, and which has now disappeared. And lead is also the mat...

We are what we feel. And telling ourselves to others means telling our emotions. But how to do it, in a moment that seems to confuse everything with everything, losing the boundaries between states of mind? We are told that we are emotional illiterates, and Stefano Massini - the writer so loved for his stories on TV on Thursday evenings on "Piazzapulita" - starts right here for a very profound and ironic journey at the same time into the labyri...

A few years ago Giovanni Casula asked me to tell some stories he had written and from which he had started writing a book. Stories taken from experiences he lived as an educator within the Psychiatry Service (SPDC) of the SS Trinity Hospital in Cagliari. The book told fragments of intense humanity, the surprises, the empathy, the beauties and the distortions that he had seen and encountered since he began his work as an educator. We decided to cr...

Biography and anecdotes are left out of this "anarchic and poetic tale" where the words live outside the accompanying music. There is also room, however, for a few song excerpts, performed with intensity and poetic vigor by the actress. Alongside the protagonist is the talented accordionist Giulia Bertasi, who does not limit herself to mere accompaniment, but becomes herself, in many cases, a dramaturgical complement, in emphasizing intimate atmo...

The most extraordinary stories are those that pass us by without us realizing it. These are often so small that you have to go and look for them among the many things that are worthless. Domenico Iannacone's neorealistic television story descends in the theater of narration and transforms its journalistic investigations into an intimate space of reflection and denunciation. The stage becomes the ideal physical place to bring to light what televis...

Many years ago, in the mid-1990s, while I was preparing a show about the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste, I learned about Aktion Te Vier, Action Ti Quattro, the first Nazi mass extermination: the elimination of seventy thousand Germans, including the mentally ill, the handicapped, the disabled and children with malformations. Why did I learn about it? Because the same laborers, the same squads of butchers from T4, who for the f...

My Father and I comes when a musician who suddenly could no longer play in public and did not know when he would be able to do so again, dove pen in hand into his relationship with music. And he discovered that that pen was able to dig deep, very deep, where he never would have believed. From that pen the streets of the neighborhood appeared on paper, the blacksmith's shop where a domestic rooster in full light ate iron shavings while a child did...

Without any warning, God appears in a supermarket on the outskirts of Rome and announces the end of the world. Through his fault and misfortune, there are very few people listening to him. To take him seriously there is only an amorphous and enervated young man, from then on fatally destined to be the prophet of the end of times. Accompanied by a listless angel of the Apocalypse, the young apostle makes his way into the sinful abyss of the Roma...

The word Myth comes from the Greek mythos which means story. Ascanio Celestini has always told stories. Even before he was born, because it was his father and before him his grandmother who told the story. Celestini collects stories and leaves a memory of them. He is capable of listening to many and distilling one collective one. In the reading “Le Nozze di Antigone”, accompanied by Gianluca Casadei’s accordion. The text is his personal rew...

(recommended for an adult audience) A psychomagical ritual of return to the theater that becomes a passionate, exhilarating, moving life story. She wouldn't want, Beatrice, to be there on stage. Yet something happens. A first memory, an anecdote, a laugh, and the story of an entire existence takes shape, step by step, without interruption, through a range of episodes, characters, thoughts that touch on all human themes. A very personal monologue...

SCOOP: SAPIENS WOMAN, is the title of Giobbe Covatta's new show which wants to demonstrate to us, with its irreverent and desecrating language, the superiority of women over men. To validate this thesis the comedian ranges from history, to sociology, to medicine and from every point of view the male of the human race comes out as a loser and ridiculous compared to the woman. There is no shortage of impossible interviews with important figures who...