(by Michela Nana) (ANSA) - MILAN, MARCH 27 - More than a year after the outbreak of the pandemic, the theaters are still empty, the curtains remain down, the boxes are deserted and, on the occasion of World Theater Day, the 'cry of protest and exhaustion of workers in the entertainment sector, calling for a reopening of places of culture.
From Milan, with the Lombardy Show Coordination, the protest began with the occupation this morning of the cloister of the Piccolo Teatro Grassi, in via Rovello, a stone's throw from the Duomo.
Daqui, from the first municipal theater of prose in Italy, founded by Giorgio Strehler, Paolo Grassi and Nina Vinchi to become an art theater for all professionals in the sector (technicians, machinists, actors, tailors, directors, set designers and students of the academies) they ask the institutions for "concrete signals and to become the first point of the political agenda".
The date chosen for the peaceful occupation, that of March 27, is doubly symbolic not only because it is World Theater Day but also because today in Italy the reopening of theaters, cinemas and museums should have been celebrated, which was skipped due to the still too high numbers of contagions.
Many have folded on streaming with events all over Italy.
Many sites and many theaters have spread the official message of the day entrusted this year to the words of the English actress Hellen Mirren ("The beautiful culture of theater will live on as long as we are").
But patience after so many months of darkness is at the limit.
The Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, reassured, saying that "aid will not stop".
On the day in which he was conferred honorary citizenship by the Municipality of Palermo, maestro Riccardo Muti also dedicated a thought to the reopening of the theaters, then speaking of the need to create orchestras to ensure that young graduates of our conservatives do not have to be unemployed.
In Bolzano the Teatro Stabile instead gives a signal to restart with a review that will take place outdoors and which includes more than 100 free appointments between the city and the province, "Out! Il Teatrofuori dal Teatro".
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