“What am I doing here?” A question I have asked myself many times, I have often found it inside my head, tangled in my thoughts […]
This is why today I felt like getting out of this box […] I want you to take me by the hand and accompany me in the things that I have already experienced and told because nothing is stronger than the story of reality set in reality. I promise you that there will be no distance, no impediment between us here, for the things that we will say or tell each other.”
He began with these words Dominic Iannacone, on December 17th at the Karol Theater di Castellammare di Stabia, confirming the success of his show “What am I doing here”, which had also been staged the day before at the Ghirelli Theatre in Salerno, as part of the season of Casa del Contemporaneo.
Domenico Iannacone, Rai journalist known to the general public for the Documentary – Reality with the same title broadcast by the Third National Network, analyzes and tells the social reality. Explores - with marked humanity - the complicated world of the fragile, the last, the marginalized, of those who in life have been disadvantaged by events.
On the stage of the Karol Theatre, thanks to a suggestive atmosphere of lights and shadows accompanied by the intense live notes of the musician Francesco Santalucia, the journalist thus came out of that "box", which is television, and captured the attention of the large audience present, with the intent of transferring his journalistic investigations onto the scene and producing the effect of a humanized narration of pain and abandonment, already the subject of reports and interviews.
His thoughts – punctuated by calm tones and brief reflective silences – were gradually interspersed with touching video images, which made the suffering palpable and dense, generating unanimous emotion from those present.
“In the folds of life there are emotions that remain entangled forever […] emotions are as important as the blood that pulses in our body. Without them we could get sick, empty or even die.”
After a powerful reflection on emotions, Iannacone gave voice and expression to the memory of when, still a teenager, the film “Bicycle Thieves” by Vittorio De Sica was crucial for what later turned out to be a deep connection with the last, those that society, without mercy, condemns to an unjust burden. His desire to tell their story was born right there, without ever stopping knocking at his heart.
The author, who with elegance and sensitivity, for about two hours occupied the scene without taking it away from the protagonists of his stories, through this show - a real intimate and introspective journey - brings out stories that, as he himself stated, “they must be sought in the folds of the world, which are tiny dots of pain dispersed in the general chaos of life.” Stories that, when heard, change the perception of feelings.
Article published on 19 December 2023 - 19:52
