Blank ballot paper

from the novel of: Josè Saramago Saggio on lucidity
with: Rocco Papaleo
and with: other three actors/ actresses
scenes: Andrea Belli
costumes: Valeria Bettella
theatrical adaptation of: Emanuele Aldrovandi and Serena Sinigaglia
direction: Serena Sinigaglia
production: Teatro Stabile di Bolzano and Teatro Carcano

Bad time to vote, he complained about the seat president of the electoral section fourteen…
Josè Saramago
Rocco Papaleo is the protagonist of White card, the new text that Emanuele Aldrovandi and Serena Sinigaglia drew from the novel Saggio on the lucidity of the Nobel Prize in Literature Josè Saramago. In a capital of a democratic state not better specified happens an exceptional fact. On the day of the municipal elections the citizens access mass at the ballot and vote white. The parties are incredulous, lost and the government cancels the vote and indicates another. The votes are repeated but the result is the same: a river of white cards. The president proclaims the state of emergency and fills with military the capital, acting a little blind. A secret investigation is opened. And here comes the protagonist, the commissioner interpreted by Rocco Papaleo, a multi-decorate agent, much appreciated for his sagacity and discretion. From here the novel of Saramago begins, “a caustic metaphor, visionary and lucid of so-called “democratic” societies,” writes Sinigaglia, who also cares for the direction of the show. «I found Saggio on lucidity, his writing so pregnant of that sweet and irrident irony typical of the great South American literature, irresistible. The figure of the commissioner lies among the great figures of literature. His moral rectitude; his tiredness of trying to remain man in the midst of corruption, servilism, terror; the infamous exercise of the independence of thought make him a hero at the same time shady and fragile, a sort of modern Don Quixote. I found Rocco Papaleo wonderfully adhering to a figure of this type, ironic, intelligent and melancholic”.

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from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 March at 21:00
Sunday 7 March at 18:00