Composed for Radio 3- RAI, aired for the first time in 1998.
It ws setted for theatre at the Auditorium of Rome in 2003 and
presented in a short version at the XXXVII Festival in Borgio Verezzi with the title Centurie.
Andrea Liberovici
Andrea Liberovici
Massimo Popolizio
RAI
Reading is often declaimed "à la page" in the debates, so that it's often at the limit of dying, and it is always ready to born again from its ashes as the phoenix; reading is always partner and teacher, lover and persecutor, cross and delight of men. If western dictatorship of the "glance" has accustomed us to think about reading as a silent delight of eyes, but we don’t forget that for centuries the reading has been above all delight of the ear. Proposing a fortunate encounter between an actor in love with reading and some, perhaps less known, pages, but not for this less high in the Italian literature, "The man dressed in grey" wants to be a demonstration of as the author's page is still today one and the same thing with the voice that embodies it. It wants to be the demonstration of how, through the mystery of "the theatre of the mind", "the scene of the reading" watches and aspires to the stage, of how an actor than many critics can teach us what he is reading. Between excursions in the roads of the mystery and races at breathtaking speed in the humoristic literature, the protagonists of "The man dressed in grey" are the metaphysical and grotesque writings, the pastiche and the narration of Italian 900's; but also the vicissitudes of the modern personage-man, who little by little begins living his incompleteness not like loss but like condition of the story, of the structure... about existence.