Art, Theater, and Poetry: Paving New Paths for Social Engagement and Solidarity

Art, theater, and poetry to open new roads to social commitment, culture, and solidarity by discovering authors and messages that are part of the existential background of our community: a journey that is undertaken with the show 'I, we...Raffaele Viviani', presented by the association Ali e Radici and staged by Luca Napolano and Elisabetta Mercadante, under the direction of Luca Napolano. The new work of the group, after the one dedicated in the past months to E. A. Mario, will be staged on Saturday, March two at 8:30 PM, at the Don Guanella theater, in the Miano neighborhood, a challenging land that exalts beauty and commitment to legality and inclusion. On stage, in addition to Luca Napolano and Elisabetta Mercadante, the singer Barbara Lombardi, the singer Gennaro Sacco, the actor Sergio Priante, with the participation of the Edwardian actress Lidia Ferrara and the special participation of the actor Angelo Di Gennaro. At the end of the show, there will be a special appearance by the actress Anna Maria Ackermann. Luca Napolano is a musician and interpreter of a genre that has brought Naples into the global spotlight: 'recitar cantando' or better known as 'the jacket song', to which he has dedicated his studies from the age of eight, when he was a pupil of the director and actor Alfonso Guadagni with whom he has performed in several shows, including 'I, Raffaele Viviani'. Stories of alleys and bravado, he was subsequently among the leading actors of the film 'Burn Naples' directed by Arnaldo Delehaye, starring Mariano Rigillo. For the hundred years of the actor Nino Taranto, he toured as an interpreter and musician, with the nephew Corrado Taranto in the show 'zii papà, papà zii zio'. He has also dedicated himself to the revaluation of the classic Neapolitan song and the places that have made it immortal, such as the square of illustrious men, a cemetery where lie the remains of those who have always illuminated Neapolitan culture, including Raffaele Viviani, Saverio Mercadante, Ermete Giovanni Gaeta better known as E.A. Mario. Together with the Magistrate Catello Maresca, he filmed a documentary right in the square of illustrious men, bringing to light many myths and legends linked to that culture. Elisabetta Mercadante, his life and stage partner, comes from classical studies at one of the most famous Academies in the world, the 'Pietro Scharoff' in Rome, founded by the actor Aldo Rendine, directed for many years by the actor Lando Buzzanca and by Maestro Luigi Rendine. Leading actress in many theatrical performances, including 'La Ronde' by A. Schnitzler directed by Luigi Rendine, 'An Enigmatic Nature', by A. Chekhov, directed by Sergio Ammirata, 'Antigone' by Sophocles, directed by Vera Cavallaro, Jacopo Cavallaro and Francesco Russo. A Doctor of Law, she has aimed to bring to the stage, for several years, the promotion of noetic principles underlying the main human rights. From this union was born the conference show 'I, we...Raffaele Viviani', which addresses a series of themes for the promotion of human rights, among which, the most important right to life, through 'the song of labor' a denunciation of white deaths. It also deals, albeit with irony and sarcasm, with the always current tragedy of femicide with the song 'the in-love thug'.