Theatre

Theatre

Mi richordo anchora

(…) then you meet “Mi richordo anchora” by Pietro Ghizzardi and you find yourself so unprepared before this rare attempt of oral culture to become written from inside. It keeps being oral for some kind of oratorical form in which it has been conceived and keeps asking out loud to be said. Enzo Robutti, fine monologue performer, (…) caught this need and he caught it connecting it to his personal history, to his vision of the world and of life, to his memory.

Gigi Dall’Aglio, Director’s notes for Mi richordo anchora

In 1984 Pietro Ghizzardi’s autobiography Mi richordo anchora was adapted for a theatre play of the same name realised by the actor Enzo Robutti – who was also its interpret – and Gustavo Marchesi, author of the final “envoy”.
The play was staged by the Compagnia del Collettivo di Teatro Due di Parma, directed by Gigi Dall’Aglio.
The opening night took place at the Teatro Due in Parma in 1984 and the show was then replayed in 1985 in the major Italian theatres: Teatro Tassoni in Bologna, Teatro dell’Orologio in Rome, Teatro Piccola Commenda and Teatro Verdi in Milan.

In 2016, on the 40th anniversary of Mi richordo anchora pubblication and on the occasion of its reprinting with Quodlibet, the play Casa Ghizzardi. Mi richordo anchora has been staged at illy art lab at Triennale di Milano. The performing project has been devised by Franco Laera and developed by Silvio Castiglioni (performer), Giulia Morelli (playwright), Giovanni Guerrieri (direction), Nicolò Cecchella (set design).
Italian magazine Panorama numberd the show among the most interesting on the Italian scenario in 2016.