From "If this is a man by Primo Levi" - directed by Giovanni Calò
Original music by Massimo Fedeli
Drawing and lights Luca Febbraro
Scenes Antonio Belardi
The subjects of the set design are taken from the works of Eva Fischer.
Sometimes you survive to be able to tell a story.
Primo Levi survived to tell the tale. "First" wants to give voice to his testimony, because you can't forget, you shouldn't. The intensity and lightness of Levi's words, together with the great literary value of his story, have favoured our work and shown the way forward. His dialogues already have a theatrical force and his description of men helps the work of the actor.
It is therefore still a matter of telling, indeed telling in the most immediate and amplified way, to revive the experience of Levi and his disappeared companions, to a different and wider audience, to the new generations. His testimony is represented with rational amazement, simplicity and, as far as possible, with lightness, to guide the viewer to a conclusion, to a sentence, without shouting it in his ears, without giving it to him already fabricated.
