KIT in the City

May 7, 2009, 6 p.m.
Corpo di Stato
By and With Marco Baliani
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street (between 5th and 6th avenue)

www.nyu.edu/pages/casaitaliana/events.html

Descrizione: Un ottimo attore e uno spettacolo forte. Un’occasione unica e rara di vedere un attore di grande calibro recitare a New York. Il monologo parte da uno dei fatti piu’ oscuri o comunque drammatici, fondamentali, indimenticabili dell’Italia degli ultimi decenni per raccontare una generazione che con questi fatti  ha dovuto fare I conti per molto tempo.

Description: Actor, writer and director Marco Baliani will be performing “Corpo di Stato” (Body of State), a show on Aldo Moro’s kidnapping, one of the most tragic events in recent Italian political history. The discovery of the lifeless body of Aldo Moro in the baggage compartment of a red Renault on May 9 1978 brings an end to his 55 days in captivity. Fifty-five days that shocked Italy and opened wounds still unhealed. BODY OF STATE is a historical account and an unsparing, open portrait of the generation that split during the crisis of conscience triggered by the Moro kidnapping, but also the story of one man who discovered his vocation in theatre as he lived through it. In his monologue, Baliani reconstructs the story and ruthlessly interrogates himself about his role in the events, driven by a need to understand and confront the meaning of justice and responsibility. The performance moves between two levels: with the great events of national history as the background, the little histories, as Calvino called them, illuminate history with minute but intense tales of life, memory, and lived experience.

In Italian with English supertitles followed by a Q&A with the Director

Subways: F, V 14 street, N, R, Q, W, 6 Union Square-14 street

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Posted on May 4th, 2009 by admin
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