Review STRAIGHT TO THE HEART – Alfredino. Italy at the Bottom of a Well
Sunday, March 22 – 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Carichi Sospesi Cultural Circle – Vicolo del Portello, 12 – Padua
The spectacle:
The first journalist to arrive on the scene, the sandwich vendor who profited from the crowds that had gathered in Vermicino, President Pertini, the robots Mazinger and Grendizer, which Alfredino was passionate about, the policeman who spoke with him for hours, trying to reassure him and instill hope, describing the drills that were digging a shaft parallel to the one he had fallen into, and which terrified him with their vibrations and noise, as if they were his favorite robots.
And then Angelo Licheri, chosen for his small frame to lower himself into that infernal pit, and who remained hanging upside down for forty minutes, trying in vain to sling the child and save him. But the central character is Alfredino, that lost child, as if he were the soul of Italy, swallowed up by the darkness, lost forever, forever set in a diamond, like the block of nitrogenous ice in which his body was preserved, before being recovered from the darkness in which he passed away for us all.
Alfredino. Italy at the Bottom of a Well by and with Fabio Banfo – Directed by Serena Piazza
A performance by Effetto Morgana – Production by the Mamimò Theater Center
Produced with the patronage of the Alfredo Rampi Onlus – Center Winner of the 2021 Fersen Directing Award, 16th edition.
Best performance and best playwriting at the 2017 Rome Doit Festival
Show admission: €12* net of presale fees – Info: www.carichisospesi.com