Little one, happy birthday. Seventy-eight and not feeling it
King Lear on stage at the Piccolo, one of the many shows that have made history
Seventy-eight years old and doesn't feel it. There are those who are just over half that age and already feel like they're worth throwing away. Not the Piccolo. Who is celebrating his birthday today by doing what he has always been great at: talking to the audience, the city. Before finding themselves all on stage. Like that spring evening, May 14, 1947. When Gorky's "The Lower Depths" debuted, directed by a young man with great hopes: Giorgio Strehler. Since then, an impressive story. Which has always been intertwined with that of Milan and an entire country. Best wishes then to our theater. Which for the occasion has organized a real Piccolo Day, a schedule of events spread throughout the day.
It starts early, at 9:30. With the boys and girls of the primary schools who will participate in "Benvenuti al Piccolo!", a show-exploration that accompanies the young guests to the most unthinkable corners of the first public building in Italy. A work by Michele Dell'Utri, with "on stage" Monica Buzoianu and Alberto Pirazzini. Similar but less playful "Teatro Aperto", a guided tour in two shifts (at 10 and 12), which in this case focuses on the historic site of Palazzo del Broletto, in via Rovello.
From 11, perhaps the most anticipated event: "Walk_Talk. Culture and the city. Itinerary among the institutions that symbolize Milanese culture", a walk in collaboration with the Triennale, Grande Brera and Teatro alla Scala. We walk. Among splendid places, meetings, readings entrusted to the students of the Scuola del Piccolo. We start at the Triennale with the exhibition "Milan: paradoxes and opportunities". We eat in front of the Strehler and then continue at Palazzo Citterio with a speech by the critic Giovanni Agosti. At the Scala instead, the presentation of a volume on Ronconi. And it is precisely at the Grassi that the day ends with "The Lear that concerns us: 78 years of Piccolo Teatro", a reflection on a text that Strehler long considered unrepresentable.
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Il Giorno
