Baba Yaga Teatro presents Rosalba Di Girolamo in “Amado mio” a tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini on Saturday 9 March at 20.00:XNUMX pm, at the Tin Teatro Instabile Napoli.
Who is Pier Paolo Pasolini? an Intellectual, a Poet, a Director, a Screenwriter, a Prophet. Pasolini is all this, yes. But he is first and foremost a man, or rather a boy, as he himself liked to define himself. Be young: this is the message that still resonates in the hearts of those who listen to it.
my love – says Di Girolamo – is the title of a collection of youthful writings published posthumously by his cousin Nico Naldini, the title of the song he loved so much sung by Rita Hayworth, and it is my declaration of love for Pasolini. I had the privilege of having "had to" read many of his writings to build a narrative path that would tell his story, and then of having had him at my side for months. His letters and his secret diaries are the ones that touched my heart the most. It is there that Pasolini stands in his entirety, moving, passionate and full of doubts; it is far from the spotlight and the public, when he speaks to himself or to those he loves most, that he simply tells the burden and the honor of the intellectual and political commitment that does not give discounts, the one that implies wanting to be free and whole, allowing the will to negotiate openly with its complex contradictions to emerge. Pasolini was a Marxist and fascinated by the figure of Christ, a communist and loved Ezra Pound, a progressive and against abortion... in Amado mio I wanted to tell that point of balance that makes his precious contradictions coherent, and to tell it I felt I had to take a step back and make the Poet's words the only protagonists: I believe Pasolini can be honored and embodied only by making the naked depth of his words resonate, which I wanted immersed in the music he loved so much, and told through two lecterns, one of which is symbolically occupied only by a flower.
The scene opens with Beethoven's seventh symphony and a letter in which Pasolini, a young university student, reveals to his childhood friend the great passion he has for music. To introduce a life story that between letters and confessions, love lyrics and painful invectives, portrays an unpublished Pasolini from the early 40s until the fateful 1975.
The entire narrative is immersed in music - Bach's first and foremost, the soundtrack of his life, which recounts salient moments of discontinuity. From university life to the painful acceptance of his sexuality, from war to anti-fascist militancy, from the conflictual relationship with his father and the very deep one with his mother, from the men to the women in his life, from economic difficulties to success: Amado mio portrays a little-known Pasolini, light and passionate, to transform itself into a hymn to life, "a cry of joy, orgiastic-childish, destined to last beyond any possible end."
Some time ago I saw a documentary in which the interviewer asked young boys if they knew Pasolini, – continues the actress – and I was disoriented to realize that almost no one knew who he was.
When we manage to make the study of his writings a curricular subject and to make people reflect on the urgency of certain reflections, we will have made a significant step forward in the education of our young people. Because simplicity is a starting point for some and a point of arrival for others, but it is still necessary to understand the meaning of life. This seems to me to be the core of Pasolini's life research, and this is what Amado mio wants to tell.
ROSALBA OF GIROLAMO
Actress, director and architect, she was born in Naples and lived in Florence where she worked in the Krypton Company, she graduated from the school of the Teatro della Limonaia in Sesto Fiorentino; she trained with Ugo Chiti, Francesca della Monica, Agustì Humet, Juan Guillen, Augusto Boal and Rui Frati, Pippo Delbono and in the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski. In the theater she worked among others with Renato Carpentieri, Maurizio de Giovanni, Peppe Lanzetta; she wrote and performed, among others, "Trattamento di fine Rapporto - dedicated to safety at work", "Nuda - homage to Marilyn Monroe - a reflection on the woman's body", "Acqua - journey into the Horcynus Orca". In the cinema she was directed among others by Antonio Capuano, Terry Gilliam and Marco Tullio Giordana.
Article published on March 8, 2024 - 17pm
