Pojana\u2019s older brothers: Edo the security guard, Tonon the rodent exterminator, Alvise the black man and others, saw the light the day after April 1, 2014. On that day, in fact, Italy discovered that in a warehouse in Casale di Scodosia (a municipality in the Venetian province known for its furniture factories and allegorical floats) a second Tanko was being built, an armored earthmoving machine, with a \u2018small cannon\u2019 in the turret.
\nMy partner, the musician Giorgio Gobbo, and I immediately felt the need to tell the nation the stories of the northeast that no one outside the borders of the newly formed Padania knew. \u201cThe world must know \u2013 we thought \u2013 why the industrious Venetians build \u201ctechniques\u201d worthy of ISIS in their warehouses emptied by the crisis\u201d. It must be said that these stories were already being told by extraordinary journalists like Rumiz and Stella, or sociologists like Diamanti, but they were still barely present in the theater. There was a gap, we thought.
\nIt is significant and terrible that the Venetians have become, today, the bad guys: tax evaders, racists, obtuse. Suddenly. From good provincials, hard workers, a bit of a mona, who out of poverty migrated to Rome to work as servants or carabinieri (clich\u00e9 of many black and white films), to greedy bosses, just like that, suddenly, with ignorance acting as the common denominator of stereotypes.
\nAn enigma, which for us is resolved in a story: we have gone from more or less Goldonian masks to a mirror of an entire society.
\nA promotion practically. When Francesco Imperato proposed that I collaborate on the project \u201cThis is Racism\u201d, reciting the text by Marco Giacosa for the video of \u201cCiao Teroni\u201d (there was a longer and more complex title, but virality reduced it to this), Franco Ford, known as \u201cPojana\u201d, was already born. He was the rich little master of my adaptation of \u201cThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u201d set in Veneto, with all his obsessions: guns, money and taxes, black people, the black. Later, the Propaganda Live band wanted him on their stage, and he revealed himself fully for what he is: a demon, small, not devoid of wisdom but not particularly high up in the infernal hierarchy, who uses the truth for his own ends and finds funny things that are not, and who is inside each of us. And here he is, with all his brothers, telling stories with a little truth and a little falsehood mixed in, to look at himself in the mirror. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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