Relive the parable of Don Chisciotte de la Mancha and his ‘trusted’ squire Sancho Panzaof the horse Buzzing and of the beautiful Dulcineaof the magician and of the windmills, drawn from the Spanish Miguel de Cervantes in his ‘Don Quixote’a masterpiece of world literature, in which epic shoes he now falls Alessio Boni flanked by Serra Yilmazthe Turkish actress muse of director Ferzan Ozpetek, until March 27 al Ambra Jovinelli theater in Rome.
“The ‘Don Quixote’ is an immense work that celebrates the misunderstood heroes, those who over the centuries have dared to make use of dreams and imagination, setting themselves against the tide of social conventions and for this reason they have been labeled as crazy”, it underlines. in director’s notes by Roberto Aldorasi, Marcello Prayer and by Alessio Boni himself.
“Who is crazy? Who is normal? – asks the actor – Perhaps those who live in his lucid madness still manage to perform heroic acts. More: perhaps it takes some form of madness, even more than courage, to perform heroic acts lucid madness it is the one that allows you to suspend, for an eternal instant, the sense of limitation. The animal does not know that he will have to die: in every moment he is either life or death. Man knows this and is, in every moment, life and death together. The men who, over the centuries, have dared to make use of dreams, fantasy, imagination, have often been considered crazy, only to be rehabilitated by history “.
(Of Enzo Bonaiuto)