Venetian writer among the most recognizable voices of contemporary Italian literature and author always close to the dimension of spoken word on stage, Scarpa brings to Centorizzonti a scenic reading that looks to the animal, vegetable world, and even objects to seek moral examples in a time when the human species seems to have lost its measure.
Perhaps we have overrated ourselves. It is now evident that our species does not deserve to survive. Therefore, to find some example to inspire us to improve, one must look elsewhere. Or to those few human beings who still express something good.
Tiziano Scarpa does just this: he looks around and seeks help from living beings and things, probing their characteristics to derive from them a spur, an injection of moral energy; but he also does this with the heroes and heroines of our time, like civil activists; and makes use of the intervention of an exceptional guest.
His is a standing poetry show; or, as the Anglo-Saxons say, stand up poetry: because it is made of words that try not to collapse. The show will be hosted at Villa Marini Rubelli, a complex of 15th-century origin where the memory of the Venetian residence coexists with the agricultural heritage of old crops, water, workspaces, and life.
In case of bad weather, at the La Roggia Multipurpose Center.
