Theatre Firenze: Thursday 28 to Friday, April 29, 2011 at the Teatro Puccini Firenze
The ironic, but deeply attentive to the multifaceted social, Marco Paolini returns to Florence with his new show "ITIS Galileo .
"ITIS Galileo was born from some questions and reflections about Galileo and Copernicus and the world that they have lived for a couple of years I began to share with friends and associates that I have started studying the topic. From those arguments, those readings are born the inspiration for this story, ideas from which it is worth starting to continue to seek the right questions to this question. One of many: why four hundred years after Galileo to make the horoscope as we continue to explore the stars were fixed, we use that sky, that of Copernicus or Ptolemy?
ITIS Galileo theater is no prophet. It is an opportunity to discuss science poorly digested in the classroom, well-worn arguments of philosophers, magicians, priests and scientists about how to imagine the universe to explain the friction and make the horoscope ".
Theatre Firenze: Monday, November 29 at Teatro Everest "Nocturne in Verse" by Sandro Lombardi. Readings Giorgio Caproni, Carducci, Giacomo Leopardi, Mario Luzi, Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Pascoli.
Considered by many the greatest Italian actor of his generation, Sandro Lombardi (actor, playwright, writer) has tied his story with that of the theater company he founded along with Federico Tiezzi and Marion D'Hamburg in the early seventies in Florence. Through the decades, the company has gone through phases of very different styles, always remaining true to itself and foreground in the Italian and European.
It was marked by a personal way of reciting poetry and fiction: from pasture to Leopardi, from Dante to Petrarch, from Bell to Palazzeschi, from Pasolini to Valduga by Gadda to Tolstoy, from Seneca to Cervantes.
Theatre Firenze: On 25 November 2010 at 21.00 hours the Florence Academy of Theatre presents the Single Act Arzamas OF THE NIGHT The Theatre of ARNONE VINCENT basket Florence.
representation fits the centenary of the death of the great Russian writer and intend to dwell on the religious evolution of the author of War and Peace .
Text of Arnold, written in 1994, was first performed on 17 September of that year in Florence, with a foreword by Mario Luzi, who among other things wrote: "This Vincent Arnone drama seems to me an excellent idea and feared the venerable old man, Tolstoy, in his growing fury burn all Evangelical subjective human resistance, familial, social, at the rate of all his remorse and all the sufferings of others. It is these nuclei contrast with the world located in the epicenter of all pathos, which is the family, the bride, the offspring ("flesh of his flesh") in summary form and essence of the drama Arnone, supporting him in his progress. The acting takes on Tolstoy in my opinion a real substance of the soul of theater and speech-theater that is par excellence. "
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Part of Tolstoy will be played by Peter Bartle who is also the director.
Artistic Director Peter Bartolini Director organizational Ludovica Sanalitro.
Theatre Firenze: Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday, November 28 "The Gronholm method" at the Theatre Laudi
four managers, three men and a woman locked in a room, are ready to fight, no holds barred, for the post of Director-General for a Japanese multinational. Each against all, or at least that's what I believe. But the same company says that among the four is infiltrated, a psychologist. Who is it? And is it true?
Following the rules of a cruel game, the four agree to deal with unusual aptitude testing and to reveal to others their most embarrassing secrets, but also ready to stoop to earn the coveted position. Each
deceives the other, suffers deception and deceiving himself. Taking advantage of the structure and pace of a thriller, the author mixes real clues with false trails that feed continuous twists leading the viewer to a surprising end to overturn all convictions obtained up momento.Dopo to that the success of "The Visitor" last season, Kimera offers another masterpiece of contemporary theater for three seasons he has monopolized the program of Barcelona with a resounding success.
"Voice off-body immersion" from Saturday 13 to Sunday, November 28 at Studio Theatre .
HEADING OFF - BODY / SCUBA is an open work, a "fake sleep", a "truccaggio no object", as imagined George Bataille, a theater in which viewers are uncomfortably surrounded and forced to take responsibility physical and perceptual.
The audience surrounding the stage at the Studio Theatre are processed in four sets to set design for a completely new use of the hall, while the public is free to move placed in the middle of a real system and quadraphonic quadriscenico done virtually and physically by the interpreters .
HEADING OFF-BODY / DIVING is a project of Theatre "immersive" in which the item leaves the body and moved nell'organicità morphological architectural space. The body, however removed from the power of the word, making machine power generation on an intense relationship with space. Meat abandoned, surviving sick, he becomes a witness to the apocalyptic condition which made the contemporary world.
The (word / singing) and body (matter / experience) are not absorbed by the more sophisticated technological tool to support audio-visual stage, but active language in the definition of those natural and expressive tendencies of contemporary theater, which must reappropriate.
HEADING OFF-BODY / DIVING is deliberately devoid of input and preconceived narrative-dramatic results from a collective creative process in which the disciplines, experience, converge in the critical a 'unique perceptual testing. This sensory journey
the body seems to be no longer able to tell, but continues to breathe, but can no longer be able to exist powerfully.
Information Studio Theatre via Donizetti, 58 - Scandicci (Fi) tel 055 75 91 591
Florence Theatre: The Theatre Basement Contact This Dying written and directed by M. Maureen Ronchi.
Friday 26 and Saturday, November 27 Friday 3 and Saturday, December 4 Friday 10 and Saturday, December 11
Erika accepts an invitation to a weekend to meet with Alberto, who left the former, and that would apparently win. But Albert has a new girlfriend Erika and will not be alone for a gigolo for the difficult match. Too bad that the unknown companion, when present, Frank turns out to be an old school friend that she could not stand ... The embarrassment takes over and Erika forces him to leave.
Alberto arrives, has a new girlfriend at his side. Erika falters, where to find the strength to face the weekend? Among the general astonishment Francis falls posing as the boyfriend of Erika. His goal seems to really take off Erika embarrassment of the situation, and for this reason is an excuse to get away with his girlfriend of Albert and Erika to leave time to talk with his ex.
But everything still has to happen. Murder and the discovery of a drug trafficking opens new scenarios on the real intentions of the two couples. With bated breath we will be led on a merry go round where passion, love, interest and insane to give thrill, charm and some unexpected, pleasant smile.
The text was written by Maurizio Ronchi ("Rapture" 2008, "Memory for Murder" 2009) in accordance with the Aristotelian unities:
drive space: everything takes place in one location. Unit time: when Aristotle stated the progress of sunrise to sunset (within 24 hours however) "Contact to die" takes place from dusk to dawn. Unit action: the events revolve around a central character and an event without parallel plots.
The result is a stream of events, completely linked, that intrigue and surprise. An overlap of emotions, without secondary branching, which involves the viewer making him live with this intensity that the actors live.
Theatre Florence: 26, 27 and 28 November "Nada, the girl's Bebo" at the Theatre of the basket (from the book "Nada, the girl's Bebo" Massimo Biagioni)
Affabulazione action and drama intertwine in this show which aims to relate the book by Massimo Biagioni, which track a case of historical truth about the identity of the two protagonists of the masterpiece by Carlo Cassola, and "The Girl Bebo's' stage of Cassola. The
mages, little snapshots, memories of a country out of the war of liberation and full of illusions that he found himself instead full of wounds and divisions. Two seemingly identical stories just traveling parallel to the epilogue. The story told in the novel by Italian Cassola a continuation of a historical situation of the years 1944-'48, years of chaos and political tensions. Italy is still immature to face his Republican future, free of democratic means to maintain order and be governed. The tension often resulting in violence, and one of these clashes is at the heart of the girl's Bebo. The story told by Biagioni, part of that historical period to follow the difficult path of life and Renato of Nada, through the social changes and civil war after Italy from the nineties.
Theatre Firenze: 26.27, November 28 at the Lumiere Theatre " Rafael, Lord of Magic " .
Where does reality begin and where the illusion? Where is the trick? How can a woman cut in half and then reassemble it?
A journey into the world of illusion and atmosphere of the theaters and cafes of the early twentieth century, where it was possible to meet peripatetic artists, international attractions, wonders and charlatans! An irresistible combination of comedy and prestige sutpirà even the most jaded!
Rafael, the lord of MagiaDi theater in the theater. From city to city. Without stopping. Wander around the theater was born journeyman by an inner and becomes sometimes a necessity to avoid being put in jail ... Rafael and Angelique, an illusionist and its valley, with numbers that have surprised and unbelievable that leave audiences throughout Europe with his mouth open and empty bag.
A show that evokes the mysterious world of illusionism, art of ancient spectacle that has succeeded through the ages according to the changing face of public taste and the evolution of technology.
Theatre Firenze: December 14 to 19 of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Teatro della Pergola .
The storm resembles a labyrinth .
Prospero, Duke of Milan, is ousted by his brother Antonio with the help of Alonso, King of Naples. Abandoned, together with a small daughter Miranda, on a lifeboat adrift at sea, miraculously lands on a desert island. Once here, thanks to its magic, free Ariel - spirit of the air - from the tree in which a witch Sicorax, had trapped and forced him to become a faithful executor of his every order. Even Caliban, be sneaky and naive, the son of Sicorax is subject to the power of the magician.
After twelve years of confinement, with its artifices, Prospero, a storm that is causing the sinking of a ship on which there are many noble Neapolitan, including his own brother Antonio and King Alonso, his son Ferdinand. All passengers arriving on the island but you save the young Ferdinand, under a spell, she finds herself alone and mourning the death of his father, who believes he has seen drowning. In his wanderings he meets and falls in love with Miranda. Across the island, meanwhile, also Alonso is convinced that her son is dead and Ariel, on the orders of his master, takes advantage for it to sink into a pain that leads him slowly to madness.
is thanks to this madness, in fact, that Prospero is able to obtain all of the repentance, forgiveness and giving his consent to the marriage of Miranda and Ferdinand. Finally, after giving up magic, returns to Ariel his freedom and set sail for Italy on the island, leaving only Caliban.
Theatre Florence : Queer Theatre from 23 December to 4 Noveembre Theatre Rifredi
From November 23 to December 4 back in Florence at the annual meeting of the Florence Queer Festival, international festival of cinema and art-themed gay, lesbian and transgender (click here full program of the event).
Below the titles of the three theaters that will be hosted by Theatre Rifredi .
Tuesday, November 23 (21:00) "Morning Has Broken"
A boy of twenty-one was killed. The killers are his peers. They robbed beaten, tortured. For one reason: he was gay. With only one motive: homophobia. Eight actors give voice to multiple characters, each neighboring the story of the young, although their roles, intentions and different intensities, and they do so under the watchful and prudent under the leadership of Vladimir Luxuria, in the role of a mother of those faces, facts, memories, the pain has made it clear to a story that has much to teach and who does not deserve to be forgotten.
Thursday, November 25 (21:00) "Petrol"
Lenni and Stella are in love, a love story and pulp noir. Stella grew up in the midst of heady smell of a gas station and the generosity of rude drivers. Lenni is a middle class family where reigns the convention and hypocrisy. Lenni decides to reveal to her mother. It Stella was born a fight in which intervenes in defense of the girl he loves and in a fit of rage by smashing her head with a wrench to the woman. Struggling against the anguish and anger the two girls try all night to strive to get rid of the corpse and continue their love forever. His mother, who reappears ghost, with the ironic cynicism will accompany them in this way is not without obstacles.
Friday 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4 (21:00) "I do not know who you are"
characters and stories that move between loneliness, decisive choices, grief, ironic and funny stories, family hypocrisy, search of themselves. "I do not know who you are" comparing with society and its prejudices and, in the din of shouted denunciations of violence and media, of false and true morality, maintains the balance and showing down in the soul in all its vulnerability and hardness of a world that is often interpreted to stereotypes. A voice - in the true sense of the word - to quest'umanità both simple and eccentric, were called two talented actors / singers: the young but already appreciated Nicola Pecci, and the brilliant and versatile Neapolitan mandolins, for many years real favorite of the fans of the Theater of Rifredi.
Information Theatre Rifredi Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 303, Florence tel. 055 422 0361
Theatre Firenze: Saturday, November 20th the Teatro Comunale dell'Antella presents "M / M (myself)" by and with Alessandro Benvenuti .
"myself, or how to combine pain, poetry and comedy. A write to magazines that carry waste to tell the thoughts in that messy, which is typical of daydreams "(Alessandro Benvenuti)
" myself "is a monologue that seems sewn to the extraordinary form of tragicomic Alessandro Benvenuti . On the bare stage, a black box and a man in front of a lectern.
E 'rag, the protagonist who thinks aloud, he recalls, he says, is smiling, laughing, excited. E' a man crisis, perhaps artistic, perhaps work, perhaps family, perhaps, and 'his whole life to be questioned, perhaps this is just a way to endure the obvious failure. It is a man in crisis, perhaps artistic, perhaps work, perhaps family, perhaps, and 'his whole life to be questioned, perhaps this is just a way to endure the obvious failure. In his confused mind
overlap the film of his life and the lives of others miserable rags, as if they were films directed by great directors of American cinema. And to think that he does not like the movies. Rag is not fond of more 'to anything, not even alcohol, his old traveling companion that has ravaged his body and perhaps also a bit 'mind. E 'was perhaps only, no one knows where, to brood and to tell his story confusing it with other stories. Female friendship only consolation, perhaps true, perhaps invented: the betty.
Theatre Firenze: Saturday 21 and Sunday, November 22 at the Teatro Nuovo trail the show "confusion", a comedy by Alan Ayckbourn .
Represented for the first time in London in 1974, "Confusions" by Ayckbourn is now considered a classic of the brilliant English theater. This five-act plays, linked together by the turn of recurring characters. E 'of the scene, between realism and paradox, a middle class caught in the British daily rituals that lead to unexpected results.
Thus, in the first act, a housewife trapped in the role of mother can not see that other little children around him, while her husband, in the province for work, looking, as seen in the second act of towing unsuccessfully two girls . In the third, an imperturbable waiter to serve food while consuming before his eyes two marital crises. In the fourth, during a wretched village festival, including setbacks of any kind and in the fury of the rain, it evolves a little drama of betrayal and revelation. In the last five verbose fleeing from each other on alternate park bench.
confusion, as the title suggests, roles, ideas, actions and words. The portrait of the ordinary comic betrays latent conflicts. The characters, unaware of the ridiculous that characterizes them, manifest through the swell grotesquely neuroses, their inability to communicate, the banality of everyday life, the solitude that reigns in the existence of each.
Florence Theatre: Saturday, November 20 at the Teatro Comunale Corsini "Agamemnon"
The story is known. Agamemnon, king of Argos, his departure for the Trojan War, by failing to favorable winds, sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods. His wife, Clytemnestra, to avenge his return from the war, Agamemnon kills Aegisthus with the help of, cousin of her husband and her lover.
The choice of this tragedy becomes an opportunity ancestral to restore its strength to the tragedy, proposing actions and feelings to shape a clear and "primitive", a painting of an era in which the characters move is not psychologically realistic in the modern sense of the word, but one-dimensional characters that have , stretched to extremes, one side of their personality, passions, however, by location so absolute and total as to be indelibly carved
Great talking statues each enclosed in its impenetrable world: inflexible characters that clash and never bend over and face their fate up to the extreme. Talk like love, war, guilt, which extends from one generation to another like a contagion, for revenge, death record these terms to their original value and deep, their explosive power.
From here, a staging and a reduction to the essentials of the text, a score for talking pictures, where are the sounds and the bodies of twenty actors on stage.
Information Theatre Corsini Viale della Repubblica, 3 - Barberino di Mugello tel 055 841 237
Florence Theatre: Sunday, November 21 at the Nexus Study "Giovanna imagined that God, or the history of Joan of Arc view rest of us "
Silvia Frasson staged a monologue, that one act comes from the desire and need to fix in mind the history, through what could be the thoughts and reactions of the protagonists. The story of Joan of Arc is so studied, analyzed and filtered through the imagination, the eyes and experiences of Silvia Geppina Sica, joining also to the words of others, the great: Rilke, Natalia Ginzburg, Shaw. "Why are the stories that strike us speak to us. And listen to port elsewhere
Information Nexus Studio Via Rismondo 14 - Florence tel. 055 587330 - 347 5768067 info@nexustudio.it
Theatre Firenze: Sunday, November 21 Everest Theatre "Florence, Trespiano and vice versa"
Vasco and Gemma are two widowers a bit 'mature, leaving the cemetery Trespiano, where they went to visit the graves of their departed their spouses, have all the appearance of being crushed by a pain inconsolabile.Ma as "one who lives and who dies is silent gives you peace", they too find now how to console each other, marrying in secret not to face difficulties and distrust between the respective parenti.Così, when the grandchildren come to know of the marriage, giving in outburst spewing threats and slander, and as known to "slander is a breeze ", the first effects of this malignancy apparently reason to harm them, but some incidents at the end the truth comes out.
The author, who better represents the tradition of the Florentine vernacular after Augusto Novelli is certainly Emilio Caglieri. A comedy full of comic situations, but also of humanity, it has been able to represent the Caglieri with witty humor, the petty bourgeois world with its own strengths and its shortcomings, offering a magnificent fresco of life in the '50s. After having had much luck in theater, "Florence - Trespiano and vice versa" in '57 became a famous film, entitled "Toto search peace, "where the great Neapolitan actor tried his hand for that one occasion with the Tuscan vernacular.
Information Everest Theatre Florence, Via Volterrana 4 / 055 2321754 b
Florence Theatre: Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday, November 21 at the Theatre Basket of "All about heart
The story of Romeo and Juliet told blending elements of Shakespeare with the plot of land, the popular beliefs of the nineteenth century Tuscan countryside or who knows how long ...
Characters that move Guided by the rays of the moon, singing with the crickets and cicadas, sweating under the sun, which die and give way to others, just as the seasons, in their eternal battle. Love that is born under the blessing or curse, dark figures evoked in the night.
The main protagonist is language, always moving between past, present and eternal. There are words that are part of being men and women who have little to do with pure reasoning, are the words that contain ancestral concepts and take them to the tip of the tongue. These are the words to draw pictures and play Chiti sweet, frightened, defeated, but always deep and lives. He enjoys sparigliare cards, change the order of events, reasons and actions. And the final?
Benvolio, Romeo, Tybalt, Juliet, the nurse, Mercutio, the families are all there, all ready for their states in the great theater of the world.
Info and reservations: Teatro del basket tel. 055-294609
Theatre Firenze: December 9 to 12 at the Miser of Moliere Fabbricone, Lawn .
"We do not enter in Molière without consequences" (Cesare Garboli)
remains highly topical today's lesson Moliere, his polished skills in scanning evil man, both in individual and in the social perspective, through the skillful use of the comic register, inherited from the great lessons of the old farce and commedia dell'arte. Molière was able to give new life to characters of the theatrical tradition that sprung into his hands to stay proverbial, emblematic, among them its "The Miser" is one of the best known. Harpagon expresses its greed not only in his personal life, but extends it is projected on the surrounding world, on the other, transforming the ancient figure in a more timely nature of the financier.
To interpret this character with comic and tragic Montanari will Ermanna that embody this ghost as a laughable Exterminating Angel, and directed by Marco Martinelli intends to give to the game stage that vital rhythm and overwhelming, the ability to combine tradition and vision that led the Teatro delle Albe (a company that he founded himself in several generations, as was the style of the families of art, precisely "the Moliere") to take a leading position in the panorama of Italian theater.
" The Betrothed to the test "The Imaginary Invalid
Florence Theatre: November 23 to 28 Teatro Metastasio in Prato hosts "The Betrothed to the test", directed by Federico Tiezzi.
Tiezzi With this show is measured by a giant of Italian culture in the twentieth century, Giovanni Testori , and his rewriting of the work of Alessandro Manzoni to say a word is not rhetoric but from below, the humble, the disinherited, those who identify their lives with respect for others, the world and history - a word on the sesquicentennial anniversary of Italian unity, that unity which Manzoni helped to create the linguistic point of view -literary, engaging in the Tuscan tradition of Lombardy. Units of language as a unity of a nation: culture is not something apart from history but also determines it.
"The Betrothed to the test" was written in 1984 by Giovanni Testori .
"I always felt that the core of the Betrothed, this circle of experience, traversing and reconstruction of the meaning of history made by his characters, in total belonged to the Lombard culture, Italian culture, and both waiting to belong to the culture of the world as an image, some of the meanings coagulant of life that change, yes, but, deep down, remain the same. Then they float in the readings made me a boy, even as a child, long before they did me read in school, and then replicated readings, meetings with all the other pieces of Manzoni, the fact that the places where the novel is winds are the places of my birth and my life, the weight of the continuous attendance of the seventeenth-century painting Lombard ... Maybe I can be more specific and say a necessity, a need for intimate, almost frightening, then it also becomes conscience and duty to give back to myself and my contemporaries in her memory, what the world now seeks to destroy, to eliminate here, I found this and I find him in "The Betrothed, which are eternal memory, and together, Weeping and pleading: imploring our understanding, as if it was, and is our mother ... Now, this memory that I hope to get up on, somehow, from a text as I betrothed to the test, and that this memory without which this is not mentioned, is blind, groping, servants to new owners who repeat, enlarged the old mistakes and is primarily a present that did not, as it were, the shoulder and heart to go into the future. The return of memory, not as nostalgia but as a painful awareness of this is, in my opinion, an active, perhaps the operation more revolutionary today can take place in a mechanism, like, production-, screwball, which tends to reduce man to an object or, worse still, fabricating for himself, man. But to do this, it first must erase the memory of human history, of what it behind because it erases the memory, it is far easier to erase the history present and future history. "[Giovanni Testori, 1984 ]
Theatre Firenze: 16 to 21 November in The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Teatro della Pergola .
After the long period of open rehearsals at the Teatro della Pergola arrives the show, directed by Gabriele Lavia .
The Imaginary Invalid chronicles the misadventures of the hypochondriac Argan, the father of a beautiful daughter, the husband of a faithless woman and victim of an opportunist and a swarm of doctors bleeding and charlatans. When Argante promises his daughter in marriage to a young young doctor, so they can ensure a peaceful (and free ...) and see the future of recipes, the hostility of the girl, secretly in love with Cleanthes, eventually pushed in a dense web of deceit , misunderstandings, pranks and fictions, playing on his own gruff and incurably naïve.
Theatre Firenze: Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 at the Teatro lauds: "Once upon a time" .
Entertainment collage of historical events, theater, cinema and Italian television last century: the films of Anna Magnani, Massimo Troisi TV and Aldo Fabrizi, the scene of Eduardo, and so on.
Actor Vincent De Caro honoring artists from Naples he loved it and turn around to come to Italy nostalgically of the past through cinema, theater, TV-quality offering in prime Totò, Mastroianni, Sofia Loren and Giorgio Gaber .....
on stage acting, singing and music are intertwined scenario giving rise to a comic, ironic, sometimes dramatic reflection of the current crisis in our country (a recurring motif of the show).
Opens the piano piece "The speed of love" translation notes of a union made up of sex, passion, and unrequited affection. The story private meeting / clash between two bodies into metaphors for human discomfort applicant contemporary in the balance between the paradoxes of society.
As background images unpublished research in collaboration with the set designer Angelo shank.
Theatre Firenze: Sunday, November 14 at the Teatro Nuovo Trail will be staged the show "THE CYCLONE" brilliant comedy stage adaptation by the subject of Leonardo Pieraccioni and Giovanni Veronesi.
In a village in Tuscany family lives Quarini formed by Osvaldo father and his sons: Levante, wild and free.
Levante, a quiet type and concrete, is an accountant and manages the accounts of almost all of its business (including that of Carlina that, in love with him always trying for years to conquer it with a tight short) , Clear, with a naive character, helps his father in farm work and in his spare time, he paints pictures of pseudo-theological nature, Wild, a very simple, with homosexual tendencies, he worked in the pharmacy country and has a love affair with the tempestuous and tormented their pharmacist.
Life goes like this: always a bit 'same day after day, making everybody believe that the existence of each is now marked until you reach a "cyclone" that ...
EVERY THURSDAY of November and the first Thursday of December at The Walled (Piazza delle MurateFirenze) at 21 FREE ADMISSION .
a series of events dedicated to relationship between music and gesture, between composition and context. A number of international artists to do a survey on intimate music, electroacoustic composition, the relationship between analog and digital.
Slow breathing began to keep time I stood up and looked. He was always there, between my lips and my thoughts that I asked to speak and tormented me with his questions. He wanted to know. But there were been too many things, there were all those years ago. Years filled with thousands of faces of people I had gone ahead, leaving most of the time only a rather fuzzy image, a word I do not remember, maybe perfume, an odor. And then the names. Than if they had come and gone, had crossed the agendas and memory and most of the time they had raised more than a moment or never fulfilled the promise to meet again once more.
All those years it had been spread on the skin part of the invisible thought that changes, slowly and inexorably. Years, day after day they moved the pawns in a game indecipherable, distorted and bent trenches of the fears and taboos. I felt like Janus, able to see things from every point of view and be able to justify both the good and evil, but also able to give an alibi for my every mistake. It was now to review all my faults, without stopping in front of mirrors deceptive hypocrisy, stating all errors, cut your hands off missed opportunities and the latest outbreaks of the desire for love.
Steps to take to get to the end of my life I could count them with a good approximation over the timing of the kitchen was one of those calendars with the number of days written in red and I remember they used to school every day the teacher instructed some of us going to tear the sheet of thin paper, almost a tissue, to find a new day. A gesture of no importance, I never thought of finding sedimented under millions of thoughts, but continues to perpetuate over time, relentlessly, digging beneath the consciousness, leaving only scars.
I sat there on that stone from the mountain peak that dominated everything for many hours, with the desire to see everything collapse into a black hole. Behind me stood a sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady, one of the many shrines resting on top of long climbs, as if it were not painful enough to have to pray there was the need to climb up here to do it.
I did not need to pray, and do not think I have ever had the desire. I never believed in anything that was not something tangible. The rest thought that they were not even touched me ....
I tried to understand the meaning of that day waiting for the end. M'inerpicai along the little cobblestone street, almost running to not have time to think, not at that time. I was hoping never.
When breathing became labored and her heart began to scream, I found the time to let the pain come, and his voice is always slow, drag the words into the mouth and then throws you into the heart. I did not want to listen to my lies, and even the caresses that she had gone out of my skin. You get to understand the mistakes only after they have been committed and that day was a great teacher for me. I sat on his knees waiting for my legs began to ache, his hands resting on the cobbles, his head bent forward and felt the sweat through my face from chin to lean and fall on the ground, watched those little beat drops to the ground almost every set and I could not think of anything else that was not a curse. on that road looking for something that I knew I would never have tried. I threw away another another dream, the sweetest, the most large, the more true. The climbs are also descended, and the same hopes and paths have different perspectives. I stood there, as if in prayer, softly repeating a name, which was confused with the south wind. That name was the only truth I could tell, that wind was the only one who could hear my sins. now accounts would come back, the damage was done in the past, a name, a place. There was more than time that passed and that name that burned my lips. I wiped away my happiness in the fear of pity, the shame of a past without a name, within the last ounce of courage I had left to call cowardice. Slow breathing began to keep time I got up and looked. He was always there, between my lips and my thoughts ...()
E : Yes, I'm not complaining. Health fortunately not say that when there is missing and that is everything.
U: Yeah, so they say. Well Erica, I'll tell you now that it is an informal interview: we say evaluation. I've got his resume and his record of service in our company ... (pause)
I must say that I found very interesting ...
E: interesting ... , in what sense?
U: In general. I see here that you work with us for a few years ... so let's see. ... Five years ...
E: seven months.
U: What?
E: I said, five years and seven months.
U ... Ah yes ... 5 years and 7 months. (Chuckles) It 's very precise. This is a very important quality in his work.
E: Yes, I would say that it is essential .
U: Yes, yes ... I see that her performance is good. I would say excellent. With a record of service of that kind could aspire to a better qualification and a career. I think it's interesting for you ... no?
E: ... Yes, I would say that would very interesting. Moreover I am comfortable here and a career would be a great personal satisfaction.
U: (reading a piece ) Well, well ... here I read also that she is married and has two children.
E: Yes. are still children.
U: Years?
E: Excuse me?
U: How old are they?
E: Ah, excuse me, I had intended. Little, Mark, has two years. Julius has just made 4.
U: Of course I'm a big commitment, work and children, together.
E: Yes, it is challenging, but the fate of women who work. But beyond the office and there are also children, home and husband.
U: Yeah ... If you are not indiscreet, may I ask what job does your husband?
E: E 'clerk, too. It would be unthinkable to live with one salary.
U. Yes, of course. Certainly, with the costs that we have nowadays, it is difficult to live with one salary, especially ... if there are children.
E: Oh yes, they are spending more. A bottomless pit!
U: You told me that is good here in our company and therefore relies heavily on the confidence that this job offers, right?
E: Yes, of course. But I think it's also shown with my work.
U: But of course, certainly did not mean the opposite. . But here, its notes of service, there is a small neo ...
E: A small neo? What do you mean?
U: You see, her boss told me about an incident that occurred a few days ago.
E: Which episode is it about? ... I do not understand
U: I am referring to the fact that his naivety we risk losing an important contract with foreign ...
E: Ah ...
U: You know what I'm talking about, right? Remember?
E: Yes ... I think I remember ... But it was a trivial error to which I promptly remedied and ... (interrupting)
U: Yes .... I know that she has remedied the error, but also includes that she can not risk the future that it can be repeated again ...
E: I assure you that this is the first time such a thing happens to me and how I say I immediately remedied, and no one had damage! ;
U: Sure ... but this makes a ruling on his resume and could be a reason to stop his career ambitions, or even be a termination for cause.
E: Li ... ... Cenzo chin? But he is saying?
U: Nothing, do not worry. I pointed out how close to hell and heaven, how thin the line between good and evil.
E: I make it difficult to follow, forgive me ...!
U: I mean that sometimes in life we \u200b\u200bare faced with important choices and mistakes that these choices can affect many things. For example, the well-being of their family, their independence and perhaps the future of their children.
Conversely, the right choice can open up new horizons for the time away, for example, a career development and the consequent economic benefits with all that implies.
E: ... I want to explain where he intends to come with this speech? What do you mean by "right or wrong choice?" I do not think my error is so serious as to merit a punishment, much less dismissal! I just hope she is kidding, or I do not think I understood what the meaning of his whole speech.
U: But is not that difficult, Erica ... I'm gone clear.
Let's say that you remain unemployed. It would be a disaster, is not it?
E: Yes ...
U : vice versa if it had a promotion would be a good thing.
And, yes, yes ... of course.
U: Well, when these things depend on a small detail, such as its ingenuity at work, and the general and the decision that a person can take on the incident, he sees good she, too, that things are pretty much divided by a thin border.
E : Should I be worried? Will you tell me who want to quit?
U: could be a possibility that if someone decides to do.
E: (crying) Oh .. My God! Nooo ... why? "I do not deserve this ... But who decides?
U: Su ... so do not Erica. Just relax .. do not cry ... Now the duo say things that will make her understand things better and give way to solve them ... with me.
E: Oh, yes, thank you! Could you please help me ...
U: Of course I'm here to help ... this. For starters I will tell you that the person can decide his career or his dismissal was mainly her!
E: I ...? What do you mean?
U: That is to say, as I tried to explain before, is that she must choose its future neighbor.
E: What I choose? I'm afraid to begin to understand ...
U: Fear? What should be afraid? The fear in having to decide?
E: Please, we want to explain ...
U: Hey, come on, calm down ... everything is fine.
E: are you okay? She tells me of the first layoffs, promotions, and then finally tells me that everything depends on me! I worry instead! And how if I care!
U: Erica, you just need to use common sense and choose the safest, easiest, most convenient, and why not, more pleasant!
E: What's that?
U: Well, I expect something that you spare my kindness towards him ...
is: what should I reciprocate kindness?
U : Behold, as I'll decide not only to preserve his job and consequently its economic balance family and that in addition to propose for a promotion, it would be nice of her that she would become more gentle with me ....
is what you are asking? Oh God ... I can not think about it ... you are asking for ...
U: I'm not asking for anything! Be clear! I'm just pointing out that the is free to choose its future. If we want to thank her favors myself grateful in a way more intimate I will not say more than take note. Do ut des, the ancients said. I think a good thing.
E: Please ... do not ask me that!
U: I do not want anything! He did not yet understand? You are free to decide for the best, without any coercion. Do you think I will be using violence?
E: ... I do not know what to say ...
U: Does she want to tell me that I asked something? When would happen? I say only that she can choose what to do.
E: Please ... I do not do this ...
U: I'm not doing anything, she is doing everything. If you do not think that his children and his work, are important, they can always say no, and walk out that door as it is entered. No one will stop.
E: What do you want from me?
U: nothing ... I just think it is due thanks.
Possibly to talk about his future career, I could invite her to dinner and then go to my house, to be sure, establish agreements and settle the details of its future tasks.
E: Listen, I think at this point I remain only say yes or no and in any case, a woman will go out defeated.
(Excerpt from the show , "Women know " Roberto Bani, on the occasion of International Women's Day of 2007)
"Just like when I will choose my ship accingerò a trip, or take my house when I shall mean a residence, so I'll choose my death when accingerò to abandon his life. "
The ironic, but deeply attentive to the multifaceted social, Marco Paolini returns to Florence with his new show "ITIS Galileo . 
