‘Ragazzo’ returns to remember what power wants us to forget
Ten years after its premiere, Ragazzo Return to the stage. From September 10 to October 5, the Aeolian Theater is hosting the return of this piece of political theater that is inspired by the murder of Carlo Giuliani To claim the memory that has been silenced and the transformative potential of young people.
In the summer of 2001, On the occasion of the G8 summit, the city of Genoa was armored and militarized. Against this repressive context, protesters from all over the world went out to the streets as part of the anti -globalization movement. On July 20, during one of these protests, Carlo Giuliani, a 23 -year -old activist, was killed by police. According to the official version of the facts, an officer acted “in his own defense due to the young man’s radicality.” From the need to search and share another narrative, in 2015 it was born Ragazzo taken by Lali Álvarez and interpreted by Oriol Pla. The work “does not explain a murder, but narrates the life that is before the tragedy,” presents the director and playwright.
Regain the voice of an unnamed ragazzo
“Ragazzo has no name,” emphasizes Álvarez. This decision is based on respect, but also responds to its social commitment: “Fiction is a mirror of other stories that have happened worldwide.” Even the author recognizes how the character contains part of herself: “I feel that there is a part of generational portrait, of whom we were those young people we were twenty in the early 2000’s.” Álvarez decides to recover it now because he is clear that “the story, if we do not tell it, is erased”. Especially, he says, “those stories that do not belong to power, but to the working class.” He claims the need to stage them because “no one will do this job for us.” He warns: “There is a whole mechanics that make them silenced because they can make us lift.”
Oriol Pla (in the photo) gives the relief to Pau Bondíez
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Offer space to the political imagination of young people
Oriol Pla’s relief assumes it Pau Bondíez. Born in 2003, she met the case thanks to the fact that Lali Álvarez was her teacher during the last year of the Degree in Interpretation in Eolia. He had never seen the play, but read it shake it. As a young man, he observes that often “clear references are missing because we are bombed with so many things that we dive in the universe”. Embodied the Ragazzo He has taught him how “I can ask things, I can fight for a better future and, in short, for a better world.” “I think young people are in charge of doing so,” he concludes.
For Lali Álvarez, this responsibility and potential is key: “Ragazzo It aims to offer a space to the imagination of young people. “And it calls:” I want many young people to come, and also their parents. And that who has already seen it, returns, because it is an opportunity to live the text differently and discover another Ragazzo. “
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