The history of the show is known. We are in 2001, July 12, in old Bari. Michele Fazio is almost 16 years old and was returning home when he was caught in crossfire. From that death was born a story of resistance, of strength, a story of anti-mafia. From that moment the voice of Lella, Michele’s mother, rose, a voice that echoed the fight for legality, the voice of a woman who never lowered her gaze in the face of violence.
The story of Michele and Lella became a theatrical piece written by Osvaldo Capraro and performed by Sara Bevilacqua who also directed it. STOC DDO’ – I STAND HERE is the true story of Lella, who from that day on, with the sole presence of her injured mother, imposes the demands of justice on the clans, denouncing, testifying, looking into the eyes of those who want to impose silence on her. “I don’t run away – she says – and I don’t even close the door of the house: I stay here”. Where did Lella get the strength to fight a war that never saw her lower her gaze? From her mother’s example, I find ‘Nenette, a woman determined to educate her children about the substance of things. From the support of her husband Pinuccio, her family and the people of the neighborhood. But, above all, from the never-ending dialogue with Michele, the cheerful boy, the angel of Bari Vecchia. STOC DDO’ – I STO QU will be performed, free of charge, on Monday 27 May 2024, at 7.00 pm in the “B. Grimaldi – L. Lombardi” in via Lombardia 2 in Bari. Before the show, speakers will be Lella and Pinuccio Fazio, Michele’s parents, Maria Pia Vigilante president of the Giraffa association, Valeria Montaruli president of the Juvenile Court of Bari, Ines Pierucci councilor for culture of the Municipality of Bari, the police commissioner of Bari Giovanni Signer and Don Angelo Cassano, representative of Libera for Bari.
The show is the second of the special events planned by the Second Life project, a project created with the support of Fondazione con il Sud, in some of the difficult neighborhoods of the city of Bari. Second Life is a project that aims to strengthen the actions of the anti-violence center “Paola Labriola” managed by the APS GIRAFFA in order to bring out and accompany a greater number of female victims of male violence to recover their self-esteem, and to start an innovative path that works on economic violence and socio-work inclusion.
But it is also a project that wants to promote cultural change.
