MILAN (ITALPRESS) – The theatre has always been one of the places where a community is recognized, recounts and finds itself. It is a space of culture, but also of well-being, because it gives the possibility to stop, listen, get excited, and rediscover its humanity. In a world that runs, theatre is an oasis of sense, a place where stories take shape and remind us that we are capable of empathy. During a show that activates a unique, intellectual, emotional, physical involvement. The viewer lives the emotions of the characters, an exercise of understanding and sensitivity that has positive effects on personal well-being, because it stimulates reflection, reduces tension and opens interior spaces often neglected in the daily routine. “The beautiful thing about theatre is that from ancient Greeks, it creates communities: Unfortunately the message is transmitted that the theater is boring or is for old, in reality the theater can save: As a boy, it was the theater that helped me to take courage, to talk to people. If the theatre was included in all schools – not as a hobby – it would be completely different”. Mauro Simone, director of the Compagnia della Rancia and artistic director of the Teatro alle Vigne di Lodi, interviewed by Marco Klinger for Medicina Top, TV format of the news agency Italpress.
“The responsibility of an artistic director is to understand the will of the public and understand what kind of show he wants to see, how excited. In these three years as artistic director at the Vigne has been trying to open as much as possible to various genres, not to stop only to the prose, but to space as much as possible”, he explains. “At this moment in my opinion the theatre in Italy lives a revival, despite economic problems,” adds Simone. The greatest difficulty is that “we are not recognized as workers: we have the words of ‘workers of show’, but in the mentality of the average Italian this is a hobby, as if it were a game. I am almost 47 years old, I started this job at 18 years old and I take care of whole days: I am not working open-heartedly, but my responsibility is to reach the heart of people,” he recalls. “If the audience comes out happy from theater it means you have come to the heart of people.”.
Then if “this happiness becomes a word of mouth and then the tickets increase – so you ‘balanced’, as you say in jargon – and the production says ‘We are going well from the economic point of view’, there becomes a double success.” The theatre, however, “if you do not renew with a young audience, unfortunately it dies: I really hope that the young people return as much as possible to the theatre. It’s an experience that you live,” you must “have the courage to get out of laziness and try to see what you live. I’m sure that the theater inside lights up a different light,” he concludes.
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