Mana Chuma Teatro returns to Lecce at theDistilleria De Giorgi with three events organised by Astràgali Teatro in the framework of the “Teatri a sud. Astragali. 40 anni di Teatro” project, funded by the Ministry of Culture and the Puglia Region – Custodiamo la cultura in Puglia 2021 – Soggetti FUS.
Distilleria De Giorgi, San Cesario di Lecce
Reservation required: astragali@teatro.org / +39 3892105991
Free admission €
Thursday 14 October at 20:30
POESIA DAL SUD DEL MONDO
Astràgali Teatro & Mana Chuma Teatro with Massimo Barilla, Simone Giorgino, Elizabeth Grech, Roberta Quarta, Hamado Tiemtore, Fabio Tolledi, Mauro Tre
A multilingual evening, another stop on the journey dedicated to poetry from the South initiated by Astràgali Teatro.
“The South, the South(s) are lands of extraordinary Poets who deserve a great deal of attention and full recognition, despite easy oblivion.
If we talk about writing poetry in the South, being in this South of the world has its own hold on history. The gamble lies in considering these territories in their mutual influences and contaminations with other places, other stories. Here then is the emergence of the richness of the plots and relationships that nourished the work of these poets beyond the common geographical connotation. Here is a flash, a vision, and an unprecedented light that combines the exploded time of the poetic word with the knowledge of places.”
Friday 15 October at 20h30
SPINE, Mana Chuma Teatro
by Massimo Barilla and Salvatore Arena,
with Stefania De Cola, Mariano Nieddu, Lorenzo Praticò
Three solitudes, three solitudes combined with pain. In an inn, the inn where Cassio has lost his head and the position of lieutenant (they say), three characters-witnesses go through the story of Othello, measuring it with their ambitions-desires-frustrations.
A roundabout of losers. A triangle of solitudes in a rectangle of history. Characters that look like ghosts: they move like tree leaves at night. A story in several voices, interwoven with screams shouted in a low voice.
Like stones embedded in the inn that belongs to them, Magdalena and Lucio together with the Digger, embody this triangle that takes on different shapes from time to time, with distances that come close and move away, but with vertices that can never touch.
Saturday 16 October, 20:30
OSSA DI CRITA, Mana Chuma Teatro
Poetry reading-performance
From the poetry collection of the same title by Massimo Barilla
Edizioni Mesogea Culture Mediterranee
Original live music, Luigi Polimeni
by and with Massimo Barilla
“Compositions that can be read and “heard” as sounds, with passion, immersing the reader in the purity of a language that flows from the earth and runs through the human soul.”
Corrado Speziale
