On Friday, January 10th at 9:00 PM, the Teatro Sannazaro presents "Olivetti," the second performance in the "Sometimes They Return" series. The show features the charismatic and magical Laura Curino, the queen of Italian narrative theater, directed by Gabriele Vacis. A show that has been touring theaters since December 1996, an intimate and ironic tale that retains its charismatic power. A production of the Muse Cultural Association, in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro Stabile Torino, Olivetti is the story of Camillo, the pioneer, the inventor, the whimsical and brilliant nonconformist who founded the first Italian typewriter factory in the early 20th century.
With the help of biographies, interviews, literary texts (Natalia Ginzburg's witty description of him in “Lessico Famigliare” was indispensable), his life, the figures around him, his environment and his enterprises have been reconstructed.
The narrative voices were then entrusted to two fundamental characters in his story: his mother, Elvira Sacerdoti, and his wife, Luisa Revel.
These two women, both from a minority culture (the first Jewish, the second Waldensian) were the silent protagonists of the formation and realization of the Olivetti dream. It seemed right to bring their voice back to the forefront, a paradigm of the many female voices who built in the shadows in those years.
It is the epic tale of an adventure, and as such it is gripping, full of twists and turns, trials to overcome, struggles, loves, heroes.
“For me, in the summer, there were the Fiat colonies, practically the prison. During the long hours spent in the cell or in the hours of fresh air, legends circulated among us children. Among them was one that told of the existence, near us, of Paradise. A colony where the children were well dressed, they had a “young lady” for every six or seven, instead of every thirty children, a young lady who didn't cry all day, in fact she was happy to be there.” – Laura Curino tells –
“The children ate well at small tables, they could bathe without whistles, they could write letters that would not be read until they were sent, they could… read! You couldn’t read at the Fiat colonies. You couldn’t even write, and those who kept a diary had to do it in secret and find a place to hide it, since we didn’t have the key to our door, which barely fit what was necessary for washing anyway. There, in Paradise, it was said that the children had a locker. With a key. That paradise was the Olivetti Colony.”
Useful information: ticket price €20 Stalls, €15 Boxes – Show times Friday and Saturday at 21.00pm, Sunday at 18.00pm – Box office hours: Monday to Saturday from 10.00am to 20.00pm
Teatro Sannazaro, via Chiaia, 157 www.teatrosannazaro.it – info@teatrosannazaro.it
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