Baba Yaga Theater presents Rosalba Di Girolamo in «Amado mio», a tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini, on Saturday, March 9 at 8:00 PM, at Tin Teatro Instabile Napoli.
Who is Pier Paolo Pasolini? An intellectual, a poet, a director, a screenwriter, a prophet. Pasolini is all of this, yes. But he is above all a man, or rather a boy, as he himself loved to define himself. 'Be young': this is the message that still resonates in the heart of those who listen to him.
«Amado mio» - says Di Girolamo - is the title of a collection of youthful writings published posthumously by his cousin Nico Naldini, that of the song that he loved so much sung by Rita Hayworth, and it is my declaration of love for Pasolini. I had the privilege of having had to read many of his writings to construct a narrative path that told his story, and therefore of having had him by my side for months. His letters and his secret diaries are the ones that touched my heart the most. It is there that Pasolini stands in his entirety, moving, passionate and full of doubts; it is away from the spotlights and the public, when he speaks to himself or to those he loves most, that he tells with simplicity the burden and the honor of the intellectual and political commitment that does not make discounts, the one that implies wanting to be free and integral, letting the will emerge to negotiate openly with his complex contradictions. Pasolini was a Marxist and fascinated by the figure of Christ, a communist and loved Ezra Pound, a progressive and against abortion... in Amado mio I wanted to tell that point of balance that makes his precious contradictions coherent, and to tell it I felt I had to take a step back and make the words of the Poet the only protagonists: Pasolini I believe can be honored and embodied only by making the naked depth of his words resonate, which I wanted immersed in the music that he loved so much, and told through two lecterns, one of which is symbolically occupied only by a flower.
The scene opens with the seventh symphony of Beethoven and a letter in which Pasolini, a young university student, reveals to his childhood friend the great passion he has for music, to introduce a life story that among letters and confessions, love lyrics and painful invectives, portrays an unpublished Pasolini from the early 40s to the fateful 1975.
The entire narrative is immersed in music, that of Bach first of all, the soundtrack of his life, which tells salient moments of discontinuity. From university life, to the painful acceptance of his sexuality, from the war to the anti-fascist militancy, from the conflictual relationship with his father and the deep one with his mother, from the men to the women of his life, from financial difficulties, to success: 'Amado mio' draws a little-known Pasolini, light and passionate, to transform into a hymn to life, 'a cry of joy, orgiastic-infantile, destined to last beyond any possible end'.
Some time ago I saw a documentary in which the interviewer asked young boys if they knew Pasolini, - continues the actress - and I was disoriented to find that almost no one knew who he was.
When we manage to make the study of his writings curricular and to reflect on the urgency of certain reflections, we will have taken a significant step forward in the education of our young people. Because simplicity for someone is a starting point and for someone else a point of arrival, but it is still necessary to understand the meaning of life. This seems to me the core of Pasolini's life search, and this 'Amado mio' wants to tell.