GABER The world hurts me

Production by Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, Teatro della Toscana – Teatro Nazionale
in collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio Gaber and Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara

Neri Marcorè, along with director and playwright Giorgio Gallione, has closely studied the materials related to Giorgio Gaber. This return is both an ethical and artistic necessity, and an even more mature and conscious opportunity to embrace the work of the “man with the two capital G’s”. Gaber – The world hurts me is an exploration into the creative, narrative, ethical, and literary universe of two great authors of theater and song. For years, Giorgio Gaber and Sandro Luporini have keenly, ruthlessly, and ironically, but also with great emotional involvement, radiographed the mutations of our society and the individuals who inhabit it. A great storyteller and total artist, Gaber has thus accompanied us, between private and political matters, in the limping and uncertain journey towards a society that tries to fight against the dictatorship of imbecility, conformity, and perpetual self-absolution. The show aims to return to the roots of inspiration of these musical works, metaphorically entering the studio/laboratory/thought chamber where Gaber and Luporini have acted and produced thought for over forty years. With intellectual honesty and a good dose of irony, Gaber often defined himself as a “thief” of others’ insights, explicitly declaring his debt to artists, intellectuals, and writers who inspired him. The list is long and indicative: Pasolini, Celine, Adorno, Calvino, Berlinguer, Brecht, Beckett, Botho Strauss, and many others, skillfully distilled, have formed an ideal humus, an incubator of illuminating thoughts and reflections that have then been transformed into songs and theatrical monologues that still resonate with authenticity and even foresight today.