A La Pergola "After the silence" with Lo Monaco and Grease

At the La Pergola Sebastiano Lo Monaco theater it is still offered to the lesson of Pietro Grasso,it, President of the Senate and former National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor.

After the Silence interprets the force, ethics and the heroic example of those who fight against the Mafia, even at the risk of life. The civil theater meets the forms of Greek tragedy.

The conspiratorial silence is one of the weapons of the Mafia: theater instead is communication, awareness. With "After the Silence", Sebastiano Lo Monaco takes the floor again against organized crime. Directed by Alessio Pizzech, on adaptation, Francesco Niccolini and Margaret Rubino, the book of the President of the Senate and former National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Pietro Grasso, All free.

A dialogue between a man and a woman living on the legality, one inspired by the same Pietro Grasso, played by Lo Monaco, and the other to his wife Maria Fedele, played by Mariangela D'Abbraccio, and a young attracted by the Mafia, Must Moricca. It is the second time that the Sicilian actor enacts a text of Grasso: the first was with the monologue order not to die of mafia, also directed by Pizzech.

"After the Silence" is a job carrier of stories, which creates the conditions to know and then you can decide on our fate social and private.

"Proposing on social issues or political scene is not very different from what they did the Greeks - told us Sebastiano Lo Monaco - Greek tragedy tells the sense of justice and ethics of the polis. The Mafia is our contemporary tragedy ".

The show is not reduced to a size chronicle or complaint, then goes beyond the individual experience and autobiographical Grease assume the forms of ancient tragedy, addressing the major issues of conscience struggling with justice and with death as extreme horizon.

Interpreter wearing the toga of Pietro Grasso, by the witness of a Palermo where the mafia was fought beside Falcone and Borsellino, What was Sebastiano Lo Monaco in order not to die of mafia, you go to the protagonist of a text in which everything is played on the dialogue between generations.

"In this case, the stage is the place of History, of a collective history that crosses the small personal stories of each of us - says director Alessio Pizzech - and therefore can itself contain the foundations of a possible reorientation national. The word theater After the Silence becomes an investigative tool of a history of a country, Italy, which coincides, clashes sometimes, diverges and then find points of contact with the history of the Mafia. "

A clash on and vibrant confronts two generations, two points of view totally opposite of the reading life, with the 'prosecutor' ready, in comparison with a young man with no words to build their future, to provide the key to understanding and voice, exceed the conspiratorial silence. In the space of memory, made of faces, names, places, a woman comes forward, a thought to the female raises the hope of transformation and which requires the knowledge and the know how roads towards the future, opposing the culture of love to the culture of blood.

"Enters the character of Mariangela D'Abbraccio, which in reality is the wife of Grasso, Maria Fedele - intervie Lo Monaco - a teacher committed to the education and rehabilitation of the children of the neighborhood at high risk of contamination with the criminal phenomenon mafioso. This woman and the magistrate live parallel two different professions, but inspired by the same light because they both serve a purpose maieutica: teach young people the legality and ethics, to live in a better country. "

Among the servant of the state and the servant of the anti-State, men of different ages and experience, then gradually you create an understanding, an ideal embrace, a reunited ethical and moral base that can symbolically a nation more civilized.

Therefore, crime is the wrong answer to unexpressed needs, ultimately a product of a complicit silence: die Mafia not only the victims of organized crime, but all those who resign themselves to living in illegality and injustice, who closes his eyes to the crimes, who does business eluding the law, those seeking the favor of the powerful.

"'After the silence' we no longer desire nor time to be silent - concludes Lo Monaco - there is only the desire to speak, to shout our battle and help defeat the silence of connivance and omerta. Just so the country can manage to free themselves from the claws of the crime ".

The man and the woman, next to them with the young, will be able to finally celebrate those who are gone, those who gave their lives to defend and build democracy.

Michael Lattanzi

By the number 47 - Year II 14/01/2015

 

Sebastiano Lo Monaco, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Turi Moricca in
"After the silence"
based on the book by Pietro Grasso "Release all"
Francesco Niccolini and Margaret Rubino
director Alessio Pizzech
scenes James Tringali
costumes Cristina Da Rold
music by Dario Arcidiacono
lights Luigi Ascione
interventions video Giacomo Verde
assistant director Vincenzo Borrino
original songs Carlo Muratori,
Discantus choir conducted by Maestro Unless Sampieri
graphic Andrea Castiglione
stills Tommaso Le Pera
Lifespan: 90 minutes, single act

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