Monday, February 7, 2011

Ok Meg Let's Take A Look At That

The anarchist banker of Pessoa at the Teatro Arsenale

Il banchiere anarchico al Teatro Arsenale di Milano dal 1 al 27 febbraio.
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“Avevamo finito di cenare. Davanti a me il mio amico, il banchiere, grande commerciante e monopolista ragguardevole, fumava […]. Sorridendo, mi rivolsi a lui. «Pensi: alcuni giorni fa mi hanno detto che lei un tempo è stato anarchico». «Non è che lo sia stato: lo sono stato e lo sono. Non sono cambiato a questo riguardo. Sono anarchist. " "This is good! She anarchist! And what is she an anarchist? ... Unless you want to give the word a different way ...». "From the town? No, do not attribute them to him. I use the word in the usual sense. "

Thus begins the banker of the anarchist poet and writer Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese, published for the first time in the journal "Contemporary" in May 1922. The text, written in the form of an interview, is among the most fascinating footage Pessano, a banker told a reporter the choices that led him to pursue a career, "apparently in contradiction with what was said anarchism. The reporter asks if the banker has denied his ideas, but responds with a long argument with which explains why the only way to get rich was to be an anarchist.

"The real evil, only evil, they are social conventions and fictions, that overlap with natural things - everything from money to family, from religion to the state. We are born male or female - I mean, you're born to be, as adults, male or female, not born, low-cost natural law, nor to be the husband or to be rich or poor, as one is not born to be a Catholic or Protestant, or Portuguese or English. "

A compelling argument that, step by step, leads to the decay of false truth and affirmation of the individual charged as the only way to affirm anarchism.

This masterpiece of Portuguese writer must now be staged February 1 to 22 at the Teatro Arsenale of Milan, after the remarkable success of last season. Adapted and directed by Marina Spreafico are claiming on: "I chose Pessoa because, in my opinion, is one of the great writers, one of the 'bright minds' of the twentieth century. Love the paradox, that love you too, because it is a process that reveals the reality of 'the absurd'. A variation of the ancient and timeless Castigat, laughing, mores (punish, with rice, the costumes). So I think this book is a mine of thought and that, in its ruthless relentlessness, open pits on the uses, customs and behavior of today and always (...) The book is a story in dialogue form. I made an adjustment to make it available to a listener, who is someone other than the player. The theme is only apparently paradoxical, since, as argued by Pessoa, a paradox has value only when it is not. The banker then comes from the people: it is a nice guy, attractive and full of humor: what it takes to make a dramatic character.

Spreafico that in his adaptation increases the number of characters from two to three: while Pessoa we see in the text of the dialogue between the journalist and the banker (more like a monologue of the latter), in adaptation of Spreafico witnessing the emergence of a female character: Anarchy is the same, played by Vanessa Korn, who moves and supports the cause of the banker in order to prove its existence. A show to be considered for those fortunate enough to live in Milan and will be able to see it.

Note: I have not lived in Rome can neither see nor to review this show. Anyone who wishes to write a review on this show can do so by sending it to riflessialmargine@gmail.com. Thanks for the contribution that able to give.

1 to 27 February 2011
BANKER THE ANARCHIST
adapted and directed by Marina Spreafico


Mario Ficarazzi, the banker Matthew
Maffezzoli, the journalist
Vanessa Korn, Anarchy
stage space: Massimo Scheurer
costumes Giulia Bonaldi
items: Amber Rinaldo
soundtrack music: Walter Prati
video: Ino Lucia
lights: Piera Rossi
assistant director: Lorraine Nocera
technical assistance: Christian Laface
production: Teatro Arsenale


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