L’AQUILA – This is how the L’Aquila writer Stefano Carnicelli presents the event starring Giorgia Vaccarelli, Saturday 18 May at 6.15 pm at the Maccarrone bookshop (Piazzale Trony).
«It is extraordinary to understand and discover how much emotional charge can belong to a very young girl named Giorgia Vaccarelli. I deliberately speak of a “very young girl”, and not in a pleonastic or redundant way, to refer to an age between 13 and 17. Giorgia Vaccarelli amazes, shocks and overwhelms with her “We will laugh at the golden butterflies” (a monologue and two comedies); not only because of her young age. Her text is rich in themes, profound, mature, dreamlike, ironic, brilliant. It is a text that makes you reflect, at times denouncing the cruelty of man and history. How was this possible? Maybe it’s just a bad dream? In other passages, mainly in the two comedies, the writing, the dialogues, become dreams, hopes, in what is a disruptive almost eternal youth. The author therefore moves in this wide range of themes-topics that cannot fail to belong to us. Her story “At the appeal”, created for a class theme, is a response-condemnation to the horrors of war and the Shoah. Just thirteen years old, she takes a supernatural journey into a seemingly inconceivable inhuman reality. She flies with her imagination and through the eyes of a child she lands in a “non-world” where a writing reads “Work sets you free”. Unknown to her, the executioner is a spectator of cruelties that could never occur in the mind of a child. It is a guided journey, almost as if it were a Dante’s circle, where the men, with identical dirty striped pajamas, barefoot, extremely gaunt, “more than people”, are “poor containers of souls now stolen and destroyed”. It is a terrifying village that speaks of racial hatred and death. Every cry of condemnation is extinguished in the mute throat of the traveler-child, in what is a deafening silence. The comedy “The Marriage of Prospero”, of Shakespearean inspiration, enhances the theme of eternal youth which belongs to symbolic characters. The narrative revolves around an island that Prospero, in a sort of exile, had occupied to make it his home after having suffered family deceptions. His good nature, however, had led him, over the years, to return the island to Caliban and the spirits of nature. From here arise ironic scenes with dazzling lyrics that go towards a baptism of the island itself which aims to be a moment of great rebirth. In the end, between unspoken truths and unexpected surprises, we will think about celebrating life. After all, every existence is made of dreams and dreams are destined to live in eternity. “The world of light souls” is the second comedy. In it the idea of a great hope that cannot fail to belong to young people is clear. In a world where discord and malice reign supreme, a brilliant future cannot exist. It is peace that pays the consequences of recurrent and gratuitous hostility. It will be the strength of enlightened kids to repudiate a world that is now unhealthy and adrift. “We ran away… to make the world a better place,” one of the boys will say. Now they are ready to dream and fight for a better future. Flanked by light souls, they will be able to rise again, allowing good to return among men. Here too we have a succession of dialogues and scenes and the author shows all her precocious ability to make a text intense and decidedly powerful in its important contents. There must be that hope that young people are called to pursue so that in the future that awaits there can be a world that is necessarily better than the current one. And this is precisely the message that our Giorgia Vaccarelli wants to convey. The future belongs to kids, to those who have the strength and courage to look beyond mediocrity and everyday ugliness. It is a challenge that must be taken up, fought with the weapons of the heart open to good, peace and hope. On a side note, it is worth highlighting that it is no coincidence that, in recent years, the school theater laboratory of the Liceo Augusto Righi (led by Claudio Jankowski) has brought the author’s two comedies on stage in Rome, at the Teatro Italia.” .
Giorgia Vaccarelli was born in L’Aquila in 2005. She currently lives in Rome and is in her 5th year of high school. She immediately became passionate about theater by following some training workshops. She also loves to play and studies various instruments including the guitar, piano and drums. She also dabbles in the art of drawing and graphics. She is a dynamic and very active girl. There is no shortage of sporting commitments and participation in scout world activities. Her passion for reading and writing led her, in 2020, to follow a training course (with Giuseppe Manfridi) on creative writing. You recently wrote the show entitled “The Manuscript” which will be staged in Rome (Teatro Marconi) on June 27th.
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