Performing with “philosophy” to pay homage to the explosive force of thought. Saturday 22 February at 9 pm the theatre season organised by La camera chiara at the A. Parodi theatre in Porto Torres continues with “ Vite ribelli ”, the new show by and with Matteo Saudino , the legendary BarbaSophia.
This is a theatrical performance about the courage to think and the rebellious strength of philosophy , as it is based on doubt and a critical use of thought, capable of generating beauty and growth but also disorientation and anxiety. In fact, reasoning freely means questioning oneself and the world in which one lives with its presumed certainties: this requires a good dose of courage, a quality that not all human beings possess.
Thinking is a real act of rebellion against the mediocrity of living anonymously and in conformity with every type of power, which prefers to have in front of it lazy and passive people, always ready to obey. For this reason, the profession of the philosopher has often revealed itself, throughout its thousand-year history, as a particularly dangerous profession. The show pays homage to the explosive force of thought, through the stories of five rebellious lives, of five acts of intellectual rebellion that testify to the creative and liberating force of philosophy as a way of being in the world.
It is a true philosophical journey: from Hypatia's choice to immerse herself in the world of mathematics and observe the stars, challenging all religious fundamentalism, to Democritus' courage in stating that everything is matter and that happiness lies in living free from fear and pain; from the fury with which Giordano Bruno loves nature, maintaining that God coincides with the infinite universe, to the resourcefulness with which Olympe de Gouges abandons the French province for Paris, where, chasing her dreams, she will end up proclaiming the Declaration of Women and Citizens; to finally arrive in the presence of Socrates, the philosopher and rebel par excellence, the one who, on the point of death, rebels against the injustice of his sentence while still respecting the laws of the city of Athens.
