The Royal Botanical Garden of Naples continues to be the natural stage for the summer festival of shows, music and games Brividi d'Estate 2018, hosting on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 July 2018 at 21.00:XNUMX pm, Tu, mio from the text of the same name by Erri De Luca, with Nico Ciliberti and live music by Giacinto Piracci, directed by Annamaria Russo.
The boy and the sea: this is how the adventure of a definitive summer for a teenager in the 1950s can be summed up. The slow training in fishing, the conversations about the war with the fisherman, who was a soldier on the Eastern front, the harsh and fertile southern island. All this 'prepares' the meeting with a girl a few years older than him, who has come to the seaside for a holiday and who, by a strange spell, sees the ghost of her father killed by the Germans come back to life in the boy.
The boy reacts with shyness of love and with the obsession of an investigation to force the secret contained in her. And the secret will open like a lock in one place, in the name. The fisherman will reveal it to him.
You, Mine is a story of overcoming the so-called “shadow line”, centered on the passage from the privileges of adolescence to the roughness of maturity.
The dominant element of the story is precisely the search for contradictions and the passage of identity: on the one hand that of the sixteen-year-old protagonist of the story, who finds himself having to deal with the approach of adulthood; on the other, between the lines, that of an Italy committed to purging the indefinite atmosphere of the post-war period, with the need to leave behind the problems of old and new allies.
Beyond the illusions of youth, the field of adventure in existence opens up. This adventure, every adolescent discovers with pain, with suffering, and it can never be encoded in the schemes of youthful consolations.
“The choice to stage Tu, mio – we read in a note – starts from a memory, from that sweet melancholy that slips over you when you throw open a door to the past. Erri De Luca’s story worked as a key. His dry, rough words, which never give in to easy emotion, forced the lock that guarded memories of a distant time, yet more vivid than the present”.
You, mine is a heartbreaking love story, a breathless race towards the end of an endless love. It is pain clenched in the fists of a life that leaves no alternatives, the desire to rewrite a story with the recklessness of youth, the desperate desire to redeem death with love.
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