a single act play by Michele Santeramo
with Daniele Russo – Andrea Di casa
scenes and costumes Lino Fiorito
light design Cesare Accetta
assistant director Angela Carrano
direction Peppino Mazzotta
coproduction Teatro Bellini – Fondazione Teatro di Napoli, Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
Teatro Nuovo
5, 6 july H 21.00
timing 1 H e 15 min
Who is the man? Can you trust in him? The question is always current. Everybody puts it on a daily basis about the people he meets and even before about himself. Can we recognize it, as a being that, even imperfect, is capable of emancipation? In front of the choice between good and evil, how do we behave? Why does man happen to choose evil? Even his own bad? And again: what does freedom of choice cause? If we realize that freedom itself is the cause of our torment? And if Jesus himself, today came back to earth, like the one in Seville at the time of the Holy Inquisition, as then would be arrested and sentenced to the stake by a senior inquisitor who accused him of not loving his creatures, having granted him a freedom they could not handle? Or would he be lovingly welcomed as the savior? A and B, in Michele Santeramo’s drama, face all these serious questions trying desperately to give answers or more simply, trying, with moving candor, to invent a remedy that will help them endure their condition. In a place prepared to art, as could be done at the theater, they try to invent another possibility, an opportunity for salvation. They try to invent a faith for their own use and consumption, which makes it possible to believe that man can cure (save) man.
