Salerno remembers the sacrifice of Giacomo Matteotti

Within the centenary 12 months of its barbaric elimination, Giacomo Matteotti he’s remembered by dozens of books and biographical essays, exhibitions, conferences and seminars that analyze each side of his brief however very intense life, each non-public and public. TO Salerno the journal Critica Sociale, based in 1891 by Anna Kuliscioff e Filippo Turati, and the Giacomo Matteotti Basis are dedicating a theatrical night to the primary martyr of anti-fascism, on the Piccolo Teatro di Porta Catena, Thursday 16 Could, beginning at 7.00 pm. The co-editor of the historic socialist journal, Massimiliano Amatowith the recommendation of theater critics Luciana Liberohas remoted three moments of that horrible occasion which opened up earlier than the liberal establishments the abyss of a ferocious dictatorship which then lasted twenty years, “stitching them” into a really perfect dramaturgical path filled with historical-political meanings and ideas.

We begin with some chosen songs by “After a 12 months of fascist domination”, the white e-book that Giacomo Matteotti printed on the finish of 1923, during which he drew a dramatic evaluation of the primary twelve months of the nascent regime, between widespread road violence and persecution of each type of opposition: the technical proof of the ferocious totalitarian regime which might be established after its elimination. That file, a protracted excerpt of which was printed within the Social Critic in January 1924, contributed considerably to his demise sentence: regardless of being disadvantaged of his passport, the secretary of the Unity Socialist Social gathering, chief of the parliamentary opposition to Mussolini, managed to depart the nation clandestinely and took it overseas, the place it was translated into English and French. The European democracies, particularly France and England, which till that second had remained impartial in direction of Mussolini’s rise to energy, lastly knew, by Matteotti’s story, the true face of the “turning level” produced by the coup d’état of 28 October 1922. The actress will learn a few of the most important passages of that publication Carla Avarista.

The second second of dramaturgical reconstruction focuses as an alternative on the final parliamentary speech of the younger socialist deputy, delivered within the Montecitorio corridor on 30 Could 1924, 11 days earlier than his tragic kidnapping. In that speech, typically interrupted by calls from the President of the Chamber, Alfredo Rocco, elected to workplace solely 6 days earlier, and from the shouts coming from the seats occupied by the fascist deputies, Matteotti didn’t restrict himself solely to denouncing the fraud that had taken place within the April elections, however prophetically drew a exact image of what the nation was rapidly heading in direction of assembly following Mussolini’s victory within the polls. The director Pasquale De Cristofaro and two younger actors, Alexander Tedesco e Luigi Vernieriwill reproduce on the stage of the Piccolo Teatro di Porta Catena that extremely dramatic second, the final, determined cry of ache of a democracy that was succumbing to the ferocious blows of fascist despotism.

Closing this journey would be the shifting oration that Filippo Turati held on the assembly of the parliamentary oppositions on 27 June 1924, 17 days after the disappearance of Matteotti, whose physique had not but been discovered at the moment. The lyrical and heartfelt speech of the aged chief of Italian socialism can be learn by Massimiliano Amato, who at the start of the night, earlier than the theatrical moments, will talk about the relevance of Matteotti’s lesson with the historian Giovanni Cerchia, full professor of up to date historical past on the College of Molise. The Matteotti Night can be opened and closed by two musical moments, entrusted to the singer-songwriter Massimo Ferrantewho will carry out two songs that inform of Matteotti’s sacrifice and a few songs from the favored custom.