I Poeti Selvaggi

NATIONAL PREMIERE

by Igor Esposito

with Igor Esposito and Daniele Russo

direction Daniele Russo and Igor Esposito

live music Massimo Cordovani

sculptures Carlo de Vita

production Fondazione Teatro di Napoli - Teatro Bellini

"A poet can endure anything.

Which is equivalent to saying that a man can bear everything. But it’s not true: there are few things that a man can bear. Bear really. A poet, on the other hand, can endure just about anything. In this belief we grew up. The first statement is true, but it leads to ruin, madness, death". This incipit, taken from one of the stories of "Telefonate", would suffice to demonstrate the passion that Roberto Bolaño had for poets and poetry. A passion, attention and care that the Chilean writer, whenever he could, has always reiterated explicitly. In fact the incipit of the story entitled "Enrique Martín" is only one of the many clues that the writer has disseminated in his prose work, where there is almost always a door or a window from which a poet looks out or comes the echo of some memorable verses. This is also apparent from the numerous interviews or essays and speeches collected in the volume "Between Brackets". Until one of his masterpieces: "The wild detectives", where the two protagonists, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, are nothing more than the alter ego of the Chilean writer and the Mexican poet Mario Santiago, of the poetic movement called Infrarealismo. But almost all the poets loved by Bolaño are still unpublished in Italy. Here then the conference-show entitled: "The wild poets of Roberto Bolaño" tries to build a trip in the forest where they shine, as trees or flowers essential, the poets loved by the Chilean writer. Poets and poems on which the aesthetics and taste of the great Chilean writer was shaped. The conference-show will be divided into three chapters that will take shape in three evenings, forming a single narrative flow, but each chapter can also be heard separately. The staging will have two voices: the narrator embodied by Igor Esposito, that of the poets embodied by Daniele Russo and the music of Massimo Cordovani.