With W l'Italia - Italy in the dark night, national preview, yesterday the curtain opened on the eleventh edition of the summer literary review On the thread of speech, promoted by the Culture Department of the Municipality of Olbia.
Good first, with a success with the public, for the concert show, between words and music, which recounted the events in the Belpaese in the seventies: on stage, the notes of the piano by Alessandro Nidi and the voice of the actress and singer Elena Pau, with the extraordinary participation of the television writer, the first Italian to receive the Tony Award for best play and best direction of his The Lehman trilogy that hit Broadway in 2022, Stefano Massini.
On stage, Italy in 1975 as told by Massini desecrating the narrative constituted with a filigree interpretation of the facts that radically changed the country. From the first actions of the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia to restore dignity to the mentally ill to the approval of the new family law in the Chamber, from the Circeo crime to the barbaric killing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, from the third trial for the Piazza Fontana massacre, which stopped for the involvement among Guido Giannettini's defendants of the State Defense Information Service, the escape from the prison of Casale Monferrato of Renato Curcio by a commando of the Red Brigades, up to the reform of the radio and television structure with the legitimization of private networks via local cable.
Thirteen appointments scheduled in the program, the next one, on June 27, with the television journalist, host of the talk show Accordi & disaccordi together with Andrea Scanzi and Marco Travaglio, Luca Sommi who, speaking with the journalist of L'Unione Sarda, Caterina De Roberto, presents the book Beauty - Instructions for use, a journey around the cultural, historical and moral heritage of humanity to seek ethical beauty as an antidote to the superficiality of modern society.
