LA MALATTIA DELL'OSTRICA

Author: Claudio Morici

Performer / Company: Claudio Morici

After studying dozens of biographies for a TV program about books, Claudio had a sort of epiphany: writers are all crazy. They have suffered world wars, poverty, childhood trauma, they have had terrible parents, at least a couple of great unrequited loves. These are people who are very sick, let's be clear.

He also finds confirmation in scientific literature: very high suicide rates, higher-than-average hospitalizations, almost certain bipolar disorder, widespread alcoholism.

The problem is that Claudio, also a writer, has a 4-year-old son who already shows authorial ambitions. What to do? How to behave?

The father has no doubts: ban the use of the pen! Censor poetry! But above all fight incognito against an educational system that forces millions of children and adolescents to read the thoughts, philosophy, stream of consciousness of people who, like it or not, were seriously disturbed.

And it is precisely on the lives of these writers that Claudio, throughout the show, intervenes with rapid and significant biographical notes.

In collaboration with Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Corto Circuito project.