"Italy has awakened. A little Italian mystery ”is a monologue that makes us reflect on the rampant Italian obsession with the journalistic scoop, to the detriment of the truth.
Monday 6 November 2017 at 18: 00 will be held at the theatrical living room of Santanelli house, the show Italy has awakened. A little Italian mystery, included in the review The Theater seeks Home, which includes theatrical and musical performances represented in private apartments.
The monologue Italy has awakened, finalist of the Hystrio Prize Scriptures 2012 scene, is written and directed by Rosario Mastrota, is interpreted by Delilah Cozzolino, winner of the Hystrio alla Vocazione award in June 2017, tells the story of Carletta, the "idiot of the country", whose discovery reveals the rampant obsession in Italy for the journalistic scoop, to the detriment of the truth.
Carla, in fact, attends the abduction of the Italian national soccer coach by the 'ndrangheta, two months after the start of the World Cup. Suddenly the scoop spreads and everyone, from journalists to politics, from the army to sport, go to the assault of the new media phenomenon to offer, without even realizing or believing that Carla knows where the white bus and the national football team are hidden.
The show makes us reflect on how, too often, the news is manipulated and how the criminal reality is celebrated. The director and author Rosario Mastrota has defined his Italy has awakened: “A plausible invention that reflects the carelessness of the" victims "of the mass media and the resulting exaltation and manipulation. Just think of the most recent cases of tampering and celebration of the Italian criminal reality: Sara Scazzi, Garlasco, Cogne, Costa Concordia, etc. The game of Italy has awakened takes place on the idea of the real story of something that, as usual, is subsequently tampered with. But that in the specific case is already tampered with at the source. It is a metaphorical-ironic tale of a credulous Italian girl, a significant epithet ”.
