Primo Levi was not only the author of the famous novel “If This Is a Man” but also a skilled chemist. “The Periodic Table”, on stage Friday at 8:30 pm in the TEV Space of Theatre en vol in Sassari, retraces the life of the writer-scientist in the show by e with Stefano Ledda , produced by the Teatro del Segno of Cagliari.
“Understanding matter is necessary to understand the universe” wrote Primo Levi in his collection The Periodic Table of 1975: twenty-one stories , twenty-one chemical elements.
Starting from the score outlined in the book (defined by Italo Calvino as the most "Primolevian" of all), the dazzling passion for chemistry unfolds on stage, the dangerous epilogues of the first experiments, the clumsiness of the first loves of the passionate student, voracious reader, restless observer, young man, critic, proud and frightened, who shortly thereafter would have proudly faced "the enemy years". A continuous flow of thoughts and physical actions, emotionally embedded in the sound fabric constructed and performed on stage by the saxophonist Juri Deidda.
The show is the second event in the program of “Between Dream and Reality”, four unconventional shows in tribute to four great writers of Italian literature.
