Luca ZULU' Persico of 99 Posse returns to the theater with 'RIDIRE – Parole a Fare Male'. Saturday 22 October, from 21:00 pm with admission € 12 at the box office
The Neapolitan singer and songwriter will be performing “Ridire” at the NEST – a frontier art venue that has been carrying out admirable cultural work for years – a performance that is somewhere between a reading, a concert and a theatrical show.
Accompanying him on stage are the violinist Edo Notarloberti, who also composed the music; and the actress Francesca De Nicolais.
Three rhythms, three instruments, three languages, a single voice that of Persico who tells a journey - between emotions and changes - that unfolds in the writing like a thirty-year long road. Words, verses, questions and motivations compose a great unfinished work and outline the portrait of a character, his education, his battles. The violin runs through and reinterprets the soundscapes of the entire story while with a broken voice and childlike presence Francesca De Nicolais intervenes frontally bringing the narration into the stage space being set up under the eyes of the audience.
Ridire is born from the need for the word to become music and then return to being a word.
It is born from a path and an experience matured over decades, from the awareness that artists are tools and voices to read society and vice versa; and how much society needs artists who act as keys to reading the reality that surrounds us.
For Luca Persico, it is over thirty years of visions, struggles, and anxieties. Three decades of political and social changes told through artistic and personal changes.
“Ridire is born from the need to take up the word and re-say it, learning to appreciate the pauses with their little silences between one word and another – declares Luca Persico -. In this new performance of mine I tell three decades of my life and my musical journey. The show is therefore divided into three acts that represent the three phases of my writing. I found a way to tell, especially the last decade; the mutations, the various angles, the moments of cazzimma or the drama and comedy of my word.
“Ridire”, now a laboratory in constant development, is a double discovery – concludes Persico – pbecause my words can be poems in the form of a reading that is transformed into theater thanks to the contributions of Pino Carbone, Anna Carla Broegg and Rita Russo. On stage with me, part of this workshop, there are Edo Notarloberti and Francesca De Nicolais representing music and theater. Together we create a journey that tells thirty years of politics, struggles and personal experience with a common constant in which the various worlds unite and generate a new and original world that tells my last thirty years.”
Article published on 13 October 2022 - 12:13
