At the Bolivar theater (via Bartolomeo Caracciolo, 30), directed by Nu'Tracks, on Sunday 4 December, at 20.00:XNUMX pm, the much-loved Mimmo Borrelli arrives with “Napucalisse” written by him and performed with live music by Antonio Della Ragione.
The show, constructed as an oratory, sees the author and actor “become” Vesuvius on stage, a sleeping volcano, which when asleep accumulates anger, violence, indignation, explosions of death and dreams in constant danger but is destined to periodically wake up.
Vesuvius, with its duality, is the emblem of Naples. Life and death, justice and injustice, courage and cowardice, Camorra and honesty, silence and denunciation, good and evil move in the Neapolitan man, innocent in the unawareness of being, of pulsating and loving, as his land lives and boils.
"I drew from legend and notions of geology to tell this ambivalence – explains Borrelli -. The Neapolitan was created in the image and likeness of his memoryless territory: Vesuvius cannot have memory, because every time it wakes up its breath destroys the beauty it created in sleep and therefore, desperate, it goes back to sleep to imagine a better world. But those who no longer have memory – continues the actor – has no future and can be easily defeated from the outside. The allegory becomes clear: the Vesuvian man, placed in conditions of inferiority, is an individual destined to explode, he is a walking bomb, destructive and self-destructive in always making do. The reflection extends to an entire south of the world that by these innumerable stories is now torn apart in the hope of a tomorrow. But in these parts ... tomorrow belongs to those who remain alive”.
Article published on 3 December 2022 - 10:40
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