“People who make mistakes, who do harm, must never be heroes.”
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This was said by the Neapolitan actor and director Alessandro Siani, who was busy casting his musical 'Mare fuori' today, based on the successful series of the same name, cited yesterday as a negative example by Ludovica Cutolo, sister of the musician Giovanbattista Cutolo during the funeral: "NAPLES is you, it is not Mare Fuori, Gomorra", he said while reading a concise and harsh letter on the city and its negative role models.
Even the boys present today at the auditions at the Augusteo theatre in Napoli (35 thousand questions were submitted) wanted to have their say on Ludovica Cutolo's accusations.
And Siani, who has nothing to do with the series, explains what he thinks. "I believe - he says - that it is useful to balance the viewing of films and series. If you see 'Welcome to the South' you must also see 'Gomorrah', if you see 'Un posto al sole' you must see 'Mare fuori', because Naples has so many facets to get to know.
But be careful, there is one fixed point: people who make mistakes, who do harm, must never represent heroes. In my stories, which are fairy tales, this has never happened and the kids must understand well that those are not examples to follow. Every occasion is good to make them understand which is the right path”.
“We here – continues Siani, who is at the Augusteo theater in Naples today – try to give a chance, a hope, to all those who dream of dancing and singing. We try in our small way, on stage, to give a chance in a Naples where there is strong indignation and desperation for what happened.
I spoke with Giogiò's mother and together with her I say that I don't want to see the army in the streets for three days and then nothing more, but I want something important and concrete to happen in Naples to help our children grow up well".
“I am next to Giogiò's family, I will see them soon – he continues – because this is a very hard time for them, but also for the entire city and something must be done for the young people: what happened is terrible, it must not continue and must never happen again. Yesterday I spoke to his mother Daniela and we are united and certain about what is good for this city”.
“In the musical,” explains Siani, “we see kids singing, dancing and playing salvation. A central role is that of the educator, who is the protagonist of my version. I took the liberty of inserting a moment into the script in which I say: 'but if the kids hadn't taken this path, what would have happened?'”.
The aspiring actors of the musical Mare fuori: "The series teaches how to escape from crime"
“These series have nothing to do with crime, in fact they teach you to escape from it”. This is what Giovanni says, one of the participants in the auditions for the musical on “Mare fuori” underway today in Naples. He has been an actor for three years and his goal is to “make it big”.
His thought is that, serious or not, it is still difficult to grow up in certain complicated neighborhoods of Naples: "but with one's own strength and that of the family, which is fundamental especially in adolescence, everyone can try to achieve their own positive goals".
Regarding the city, according to Giovanni there is much more good than what appears, or is said. "Naples yesterday in Piazza del Gesù (where the funeral of the young musician who was killed took place – ed.) demonstrated a great positive reaction, it showed that you can't close your eyes and think that nothing happened".
Cristina, who graduated from a music high school and an acting school, and is also an aspiring musical actress, is also of the opinion that there are no connections between TV series and reality: “I saw Gomorra and Mare Fuori – she says clearly – and I have never killed anyone or laid my hands on them.
Problems do not come from TV series, but very often from the problems of the family in which one grows up and for this reason we must help the kids from a social point of view, from school. Only in this way the kids do not take o' fierro, as they say in the series, but commit themselves to more real things to grow up well”.
Article published on 7 September 2023 - 17:59
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