The war and prison diaries of Carlo Emilio Gadda – the tragic account of his experience on the front during the First World War – as well as accounts, novels, furious tirades, letters, reviews... With an insatiable hunger for words, the Engineer transforms his wounds into the most enchanting linguistic adventure of the twentieth century in Italy.
Teatro Grassi
From his first play from 2010, directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci – L’Ingegner Gadda va alla guerra o della tragica istoria di Amleto Pirobutirro – performed more than 200 times in Italy and abroad, to the unabridged reading of Pasticciaccio (for Emons Audiolibri), as well as numerous lesson/shows, ending up in Harvard in 2015, the sublime folly of the world of Gadda is a magnificent obsession for Fabrizio Gifuni, a constantly active workshop.
The war and prison diaries – the tragic account of his experience on the front during the First World War – as well as accounts, novels, furious tirades and psychiatric analysis of the attraction of the masses towards the leader and the erotic psychopathology of the twenty years of fascism... Gadda, in an endless stream of words, transforms his wounds into the most exciting linguistic adventure of the twentieth century in Italy.
Duration: 90’ without interval
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ReadFrom his first play from 2010, directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci – L’Ingegner Gadda va alla guerra o della tragica istoria di Amleto Pirobutirro – performed more than 200 times in Italy and abroad, to the unabridged reading of Pasticciaccio (for Emons Audiolibri), as well as numerous lesson/shows, ending up in Harvard in 2015, the sublime folly of the world of Gadda is a magnificent obsession for Fabrizio Gifuni, a constantly active workshop.
The war and prison diaries – the tragic account of his experience on the front during the First World War – as well as accounts, novels, furious tirades and psychiatric analysis of the attraction of the masses towards the leader and the erotic psychopathology of the twenty years of fascism... Gadda, in an endless stream of words, transforms his wounds into the most exciting linguistic adventure of the twentieth century in Italy.
Duration: 90’ without interval
Learn more
Booklet
ReadCredits
Galline Autolesioniste Declamano Dubitazioni Amletiche
(la sublime follia del mondo di Carlo Emilio Gadda)
an idea by Fabrizio Gifuni
based on the work by Carlo Emilio Gadda
by and with Fabrizio Gifuni
a Cadmo Associazione Culturale production
Photo © Gualtiero Pedriali
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