(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 30 - Today in the square "I found the same bewilderment and anger that all Italians are feeling. It is absurd to find ourselves in the same conditions as March".
This was said to ANSA by Ascanio Celestini, who today took part in Rome in the demonstration organized in various cities by show business workers against the stop at the cinema and live show, decided with the new Dpcm.
"The space of the theater and the relationship with the viewer must be protected, especially precious at this moment - explains the author, director and actor -. If keeping theaters open with spectators already reduced by the previous measures is considered dangerous, I am ready to reduce them, too. until you have only one spectator. It is a door that cannot be closed ".
This is because "more and more people live and travel towards solitude. More and more meeting places disappear, in favor of a virtual encounter. If the idea that theater can become totally virtual performance begins to pass, a fundamental part of our culture".
In this moment "resources must arrive to technicians and artists to allow them to survive," but it would also be good to imagine resources to allow them to organize shows that can reach the public in complete safety ". As a father of two children, Celestini is also worried about the immobility of the school:" Why not take the students to the theater to enhance its public function as a covered square?
Always respecting every safety rule, it would be possible ".
It would be a step forward, compared to "a nineteenth-century school, where professors know how to teach only in the presence. They have no training to teach at a distance and therefore are catapulted into languages they do not know".
The author of Radio Clandestina does not have great faith in this moment in the government ("he has shown that he has a programming capacity equal to zero"), but he has some in the individual cultural forces of the "small countries of this country", which "have the strength to react ".
(HANDLE).