At the Teatro Nuovo Napoli, the play «Irena Sendler, the third Mother of the Warsaw Ghetto» by Roberto Giordano is being performed, based on the homonymous text that has earned the patronage of Amnesty International Italy.
The actor and director Roberto Giordano brings to the stage the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish nurse and social worker, proclaimed Righteous Among the Nations in 1965 for having saved, with her collaborators, more than 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between the end of 1940 and the spring of 1943. On stage, in addition to Giordano himself, Federica Aiello, Chiara Esposito, Greta Giordano, Mario Migliaccio, Fabio Sacco and with Gabriella Cerino.
The show features musical elaborations by Mariano Bellopede; the consultancy for historical-literary research is by Suzana Glavaš; the scenography by Giuseppe Giordano. The event is made with the contribution of the Psmsad Inps Fund and the patronage of the Embassy of Poland in Rome and the Honorary Consulate of Poland in Naples.
In Warsaw, in those years, almost 500,000 Jews were confined, many of them children, who died of starvation and typhus in the ghetto or in extermination camps. The work tells the face of Evil represented by the nazi madness of Hitler's work, in a dramatic form and with flashbacks of accurate historical documentary research, and the face of Good with the features of Irena Sendler, during the Shoah suffered by the Polish Jews.
"It was May 12, 2008 - says Roberto Giordano - when I read about the death of Irena Sendler. In disbelief of what I had read I asked myself why such an important story had not yet been spread and I began to set aside news, note dates, take notes. In the summer of 2015 I decided to set up the show. After refusing a major writing at a prestigious theater in Naples, I finally debuted in the suggestive site of the Succorpo of the Annunziata, thanks to the Councilor for Culture of Naples Nino Daniele and to Professor Suzana Glavaš, who strongly wanted the publication of the theatrical text, also sponsored by Amnesty International, by the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Naples, by the Municipality of Naples, and by the Polish Embassy in Rome. Irena Sendler preached with simple words: "We must fight for what is good. The good must prevail, it must prevail and I believe in it. As long as I live, as long as I have strength, I will profess that the most important thing is goodness."