Thanks to the folks at www.euritmica.it, Udine’s Teatro Palamostre saw on May 2nd, 2011 a nice play by Alfonso Santagata featuring a fine young Italian actor, who just also happens to hail from Udine, Giuseppe Battiston. Battiston has already starred in several highly successful Italian movies and is definitely on his way up the national, and perhaps even international, movie ladder.
Udine’s performance, practically a monologue, was called “18 mila giorni, il pitone” (18 thousand days, the python). The reference to 18 thousand days signifies the number of years in Battiston’s life, 50. In one simple and unfortunate stroke of (mis) luck, Battiston loses his job, wife and even his son. The python instead represents a metaphor of life: the large snake coils around you and eventually suffocates you to death, much in the same way that a jobless life will do to a person.
Gianmaria Testa’s presence, albeit a small yet a significant one, was a pleasant addition to the play. This fine musician, not all that well known in mainstream Italian music, is almost MORE famous in France (and even in distant Québec!) than he is in Italy. His mellow and suave voice is very reminiscent of a mix of that other highly popular Italian musician (who is also VERY popular in both France and Québec), Paolo Conte, and Canada’s very own Leonard Cohen.
Indeed an interesting mix of acting and fine music with Battiston and Testa (all pics by M. Rimati).
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