Italy-Brazil 1982, who doesn't remember the match that opened the doors to the Azzurri world champions? Tonight at MAXXI, the Museum for the 21st Century Arts, at XNUMXpm David Enia brings his show”Italy-Brazil 3 to 2. The return”. It is a real theatrical case, always on tour, taken around the theaters of Europe which tells - minute by minute - how an extended family followed and experienced the very partisan Italy-Brazil match that on July 5, 1982 glued to the TV million of people. A victory, that of Italy over Brazil "historical" as much as unexpected, which paved the way for the final Italy-Germany 3-2, the pinnacle of national football pride of all time. "The prodigious chaos of the show that becomes life and of life that becomes show", this is how the Sellerio publishing house presents it, which published the monologue in 2010.
Italy-Brazil 1982: from the game to the show
The show tells not only the fluctuating and feverish phases of the clash between two legendary national football teams, from Paolo Rossi's first goal to Zoff's last save: the real protagonist is the group of relatives and friends who, crammed in front of the new Color TV purchased for the occasion, he lives the 90 minutes of the challenge between rituals, superstitions, exaltation, depressions, curses and devotions.
Italy-Brazil 3 to 2 he manages to pass with elegance from the comical micro-events of the Palermitan tinello in which the Palermitan family is reunited to dramatic matches in which life was literally at stake. Imbued with a popular spirit, thanks to a surprising linguistic reinvention that starts from the Palermo dialect, the text is also a coming-of-age tale of moving humour. Anyone who has seen the great game remembers the where and when of the vision because that challenge has become the founding myth of a generation that emerged from the contradictions of the 70s and abandoned black and white forever.
Davide Enia: who is the author of Italy-Brazil 3 to 2
The author of the show, David Enia, born in Palermo in 1974, is a playwright, actor and novelist, author and interpreter of «Italy-Brazil 3 to 2» (published by Sellerio in 2010). At the MAXXI the music on stage is by Giulio Barocchieri and Fabio Finocchio, the lights by Paolo Casati, the sound is entrusted to Paolo Cillerai, the production is by Teatro Metastasio in Prato, Fondazione Sipario Toscana with the collaboration in the production of Fondazione Armunia, Castello Pasquini Castiglioncello-Festival Inquilibrium. Ticket 15 euros.
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