On Thursday 20 June, in Piazza Duomo, in Trani, Paolo Crepet will stage “Prendetevi la luna”, his latest theatrical show based on the book of the same name published by Mondadori in 2023, a new Apulian stop on the tour of the well-known sociologist, organized by Aurora Eventi in collaboration with GS23 Eventi and Rush Eventi.
Having graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1976 in Padua and in Sociology in Urbino in 1980, the well-known Turin commentator obtained a specialization in Psychiatry in 1985. During his youth Crepet met Franco Basaglia, becoming closer to his anti-psychiatric positions. After working at the psychiatric hospital in Arezzo, he moved to India, where he remained for three years, and then to Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Subsequently, he taught in Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and the Harvard Center for European Studies. Then he returned to Italy to follow Basaglia to Rome. Often a guest on television, he has become known for his role as a popularizer and commentator on many programmes. In 2013 he was president of the Jury of writers of the Campiello Prize. As a writer, however, in 2015 he won the La Tore Isola d’Elba literary prize for his career. After the success of the previous events which were sold out almost everywhere, the tour of the conference-show by the well-known Turin psychiatrist, sociologist, educator, essayist and commentator continues.
“I meet a lot of people, and I wonder what they could want from me – said Crepet -. Certainly a guide, a hope, perhaps even a light that lights the hearts of young and old. There is thirst and hunger for words, for thoughts. They seek heresy in a codified world. I can only tell them what I have told myself for years throughout my life: get the moon. Be ambitious, seek your uniqueness. You have to keep your head high and keep dreaming.”
In “Prendetevi la luna” Crepet deals with the themes dearest to him: education, school and family. His intent is clear: to provide a tool to orient oneself beyond the blanket of clouds that obscure the moon, that is, hope. This is why he tells young people (and even those who are no longer young) to get the moon: “It is not advice, but a suggestion – explained the sociologist -. This is not only true in difficult moments, but also in those of joy, or when we tend more towards resignation than exaltation. The moon is there on purpose, it disappears and reappears: precisely because if it were always there it would be trivial. It works like desire, which involves looking for stars precisely when they aren’t there, or you fear they are hidden somewhere in the universe.”
Tickets are on sale on ticketone.it, and in all sales points of the Ticket One circuit.
Piazza Duomo – Trani (Bt)
Infoline: 3283519402
Start of show: 9pm
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