Presentation of the book by Stefano Locatelli, Alessandra Cavaterra and Francesca Andreozzi
21 febbraio 2024, ore 15:00, Aula A, Ex Vetrerie Sciarra, via dei Volsci 122
The book La passione del comprendere [The Passion for Comprehending] gathers significant essays on Giuseppe Fava’s dramaturgy, poetry and commitment. He was a distinguished writer and playwright, and an enlightened journalist. He was born in Palazzolo Acreide in 1925 and died in Catania in 1984, shot dead by two killers of the mafia, right outside the National Theatre of the town. His dramaturgy is an important example of the contaminations of different theatre forms and acting practices. He had an intense and constant collaboration with the leading actor Turi Ferro. Thanks to Ferro’s exquisite stage practice, Fava successfully managed to join Sicilian contemporary social themes and contexts with the national cultural debates of his times and the nowadays History of our Country.
Fava conceived his artistic and literary commitment as an extarordinary and unique art to defence the freedom of a man and of a community, having considered that the freedom is not originally inherent in human being: it is an arduous and conscious achievement of a personal decorum that must be ruled by moral integrity, because the mind’s freedom can be ruled only by knowledge, and cannot be ever negotiable, whatever is the price to pay for it. Fava's dramaturgy is a rich source for theatre historiography and, in so doing for the contemporary history of our Country too.
Introduced by: Vito Di Bernardi
Speakers
Stefano Locatelli (PhD in Music and Entertainment of Sapienza University of Rome)
Alessandra Cavaterra (Director of the Archive Fondazione Ugo Spirito and Renzo De Felice)
Francesca Andreozzi (President of the Giuseppe Fava Foundation)
Giuseppe Maria Andreozzi (Responsible Archive Giuseppe Fava Foundation)
The authors will be present (Nicola De Domenico, Aldo Gerbino, Chiara Pasanisi, Pierlorenzo Randazzo, Anna Sica)
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