Theater in Sant’Anna, in the headquarters of Italia Nostra – AndriaLive.it

After the experience on Saturday 13 April 2024, with a full house (100 places) for the Jazz music concert in Sant’Annain the headquarters of Our Italy in via Flavio Giugno n° 8; a live concert without particular amplifications, with the American saxophonist Jerry Weldon in quartet with the maestro Daniele Cordisco on the guitar, Giuseppe Venezia on double bass ed Elio Coppola to the battery.

A musical journey listening to international Jazz standards, integrated with the musicians’ beautiful interpretations and improvisations, which made people dream, imagine, perceive and enjoy the essence of beauty and quality emotional connections of live music.

The novelty of this type of cultural activities to Saint AnnaIn the Historic Center of Andriacontinue with the Theater proposed by The Seriòmicientertainment artisans, with the interpreted and dramatized reading Of “Bastianazzo“; a reading which has the extraordinary power to show all the strength of word he was born in theater, of a text written by Michele Santeramoadapted from “The Malavoglia” Of Giovanni VergaSaturday 27 April 2024.

Bastianazzo he is a character, who only exists in the pages ofThe Malavoglia” Of Giovanni Verga and it lives, only in the eyes of those who read it. The text interpreted by the actor Antonio Memeo, went on stage at Beltrani Palace of Arts of Trani, and is the first of three jobsconceived by the prolific pen of Michele Santeramoin a cycle entitled Ghostsof which they are also part Gennaro Jovine from the Naples Millionaire Of Eduardo De Filippo And Richard III Of William Shakespeare.

Michele Santeramo wanted to entrust, exclusively for the Italian circuitthe ghost “Bastianazzo” to the actor and director, Antonio Memeo. Every one of his dramaturgy it is inhabited by a character which comes from literature or from theaterand emerges from the darkness of the stage inviting the spectator to a direct relationshipgiving rise to the feeling that the actor spoke “right to him“, drying the scene, bringing it back to the zero degree of a script, with a interpreter it’s a participating publicof which Antonio Memeo he is, at the same time, interpreter and director of that text.

Antonio Memeoprotagonist of the reading, lets himself be crossed by the character, becoming Bastianthe only son of Master ‘Ntonicalled Bastianazzo «…because he was big and thick – he writes Rod – as much as the Saint Christopherpainted under the arch of the city’s fish market…».

Well before he goes out to sea with Providence, and finds death, in the text, Michele Santeramo imagines that Bastianazzo he stumbles, he falls, and where he fell, he chooses to stay; and staying still means welcome within himself the unexpected And the unpredictableit means look at life through what is there and that cannot be changed.

The incipit of the text ‘Bastianazzo’ shakes inside: «Peace is disposable; only those who admit that they have lost can be at peace». Bastianazzo asks us to start again from ourselvesbecause there is nothing wrong with us, with a punctuation of the text which is, a continuous openness to dialogue with the viewer and with his consciousness.

The story bursts into the story shipwreck of Providence. Bastianazzo is a man at sea, like us. We are all men at sea, we wave our arms to be visible, believing that we are leading our lives to safety and Michele Santeramo he tore Bastian from the darkness of the sea and of literature, and Antonio Memeo brings it to life on stage, as a reminder of Don’t take anything for granted. We are alone, but alone together.

There personal participation of each individual spectator at the theatre In the Old Town builds new life, creating a new relationship between the citizens, the city, the culture, the history, in a way simple and immediategiving importance back to widespread culturesupported by the artistic professions.

By participating to this theater projectYes contributes personally to do relive a new e renewed communitydeveloping new social relationships and personal relationships, accompanied by curiosity for the rediscovery of Theater in your own Citythrough listening to it for real and the knowledge direct which, with great simplicity, can be recovered, rebuilding a human dimensionhistorical and social, useful for life.