A thirty-floors tree
A reading of readings and songs on the theme of nature. Poems, stories, songs and reflections that invite us to take care of nature, of Mother Earth, of trees. The tree, with its roots in the ground and its head towards the sky, is the image that recurs in almost all the texts and accompanies […]
Mai Morti (reading)
“Mai morti” brings to the stage the horrors of the crimes of the Decima Mas during the years of the Republic of Salò, recalling the names and the martyrdom of some of the victims. The narration then moves to the post-war period, recalling the ties that several exponents of the Decima Mas have maintained for […]
Terra (reading)
It is the story of the invasion of Carnia by the Cossacks, sent by Hitler to fight the partisan war with the promise of being able, once the war was over and the resistance was defeated, to inhabit the conquered land. The story is told in the first person by a Cossack, and it is […]
Chicago Boys
This sentence begins Chicago Boys, a sort of “crazy, unhappy ending” conference that takes place in a nuclear shelter. A surreal exaltation of capitalism, consumerism and the most unbridled liberalization. The Chicago Boys were a group of economists formed in the Seventies at the University of Chicago, under the aegis of the great guru of […]
Books on stage: Ho cavalcato in groppa ad una sedia
Books on stage Marco Baliani with Gavino Murgia presents I rode on the back of a chair Against a society that burns experiences in a vortex of banality, that standardizes feelings according to advertising standards, that flattens the perception of the world according to opaque patterns, that forces the imagination to measure itself with the […]
Dante’s lesson
The Divine Comedy is a poem of reality and faith in the poetic word, which can speak to the hearts of men.Dante says The sacred poem, to which he put his hand and heaven and earth of his journey in the three kingdoms of the afterlife, in the state of souls after death. It is […]
Calici di emozione: stories, fables, events from the textures of Maria Lai
Giancarlo Biffi, Alessandro Mascia, Mauro Mou, Pierpaolo Piludu, Silvestro Ziccardi, with the guitar of Massimo Ferra and the screening of the video “Le parole dei poeti” by Emanuela Cau.
Toni Servillo reads Naples
Naples, a city with a thousand faces and a thousand contradictions in which vitality and desperation have always coexisted, comes to life in the voice of Toni Servillo. A journey through the words of Naples, from Salvatore Di Giacomo to Ferdinando Russo, from Raffaele Viviani to Eduardo De Filippo, up to the contemporary voice of […]
VIA HERMADA – STRADA PRIVATA
During the First World War, 287 kg bombs created craters 8 meters wide and deep, killed within a radius of 400 meters and had a range of over 12 km. Hermada and San Michele are two small mountains near Monfalcone and Gorizia, just over 10 km apart as the crow flies. Today, as then, they […]
Il giorno del giudizio 2
The voice of a great actor to rediscover one of the key works of twentieth-century Italian narrative. It was in fact Toni Servillo who suggested recording in the radio studios of Naples what George Steiner defined as “one of the masterpieces of solitude in modern literature, if not of all time”, a novel of which […]
Chirù
Loving each other means losing your balance, stealing from each other, attracting and frightening each other, switching places: this is what Eleonora and Chirú do. Theirs is a story of apprenticeship, gift, manipulation and youth. She is a teacher, he is a student, but both are unprepared for the most difficult lesson: when love stops […]
Mia madre e altre catastrofi
A series of dazzling dialogues, irresistibly comic, that weave the story of an entire life, or rather two: that of a son and his mother, from childhood to today. With extreme grace, but without discounts, Francesco Abate has written the tragicomedy of the sweetest and most tangled sentimental relationship of all.
