Culture
NoonNovember 24, 2022 – 10:31
Two shows in five days, meetings and plans for the future
«How nice to have brought his texts to schools» comments his mother Maria Giannico
from Francesco Mazzotta
In solitude, or in a group, the sea in front of the gaze. Scanning the horizon, many wonder where they came from. Many imagine an elsewhere where to build a future. In moments of tranquility, the immigrants residing in Taranto have transformed into a crossroads of hopes and memories the promenade under the seafront named after Alessandro Leogrande, who was a cantor in the personal counter-narrative of contemporary Italy of migrants. “Let’s watch over Alessandro and this piece of the city,” he says Giovanni Guarino, voice of difficult areas and historical face of the Crest theater companywhich with one hundred and twenty students from five institutes of the capital (Alfieri, Bettolo, De Carolis, Martellotta and Pirandello) created «Lungomare Leogrande», declining the multi-year project «Historiando» on the figure of the late journalist and writer from Taranto.
The result was a five-part work on the children’s version that the Sicilian writer Nadia Terranova had made some book At the borderthe literary report through which Leogrande recounted the migrations across the Mediterranean. The show (the boys themselves starred) will be staged at the Fusco theater at 9 in the morning on Saturday, the day on which the fifth anniversary of Leogrande’s disappearance occurs, who died at the age of only forty. «The day before I had commissioned him for a piece, he had a tired voice, a signal: at the newspaper we still struggle to accept that it is no longer there», Michele Pennetti, editor-in-chief of the Southern CourierLeogrande’s newspaper. “He was penetrating, without ever offending, a classy journalist, but also an extraordinary writer: it would be nice if a writing school were born in Taranto, in his memory”, adds Pennetti, who spoke yesterday morning in the Fusco foyer at the presentation of the three days on the writer created by the Municipality of Taranto, Crest and by Fusco himself, where on Saturday evening, at 9 pm, the season organized with the Apulian public theater will be inaugurated in the name of Leogrande with the show Alessandro. It is a tribute to the intellectual from Taranto, played on stage by Fabrizio Saccomanno, that the Cantieri Koreja of Lecce they also presented at the last Turin Book Fair. “Alessandro would still have had a lot to give us,” says the councilor for culture Fabiano Marti, announcing the presence, on Saturday evening, of the president of the regional council, Loredana Capone. The Koreja show will be repeated on Sunday afternoon, then on Monday morning only for the students of the Archite, the Leogrande high school. “I’m sorry to say it, but going around the schools I discovered that some managers know nothing about him,” says a sorry Guarino. And he is moved by remembering the Sunday walks together. «He made me see things with other eyes», he adds under the gaze of his lost friend’s mother. “How nice to have brought Alessandro’s texts into schools,” says Maria Giannico, evoking her son’s childhood. «The center of Taranto-tells-was his life: the Archite, the houses of his grandparents in via Acclavio and via Di Palma. Celebrating him here – he concludes – is like having him still by our side».
November 24, 2022 | 10:31am
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