Thursday 24 November, 6.30 pm
Assembly Theatre, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
The MET - Teatro Metastasio Stabile Pubblico della Toscana presents:
L'ultima estate - Falcone e Borsellino 30 anni dopo
The Last Summer - Falcone and Borsellino 30 Years Later
In Italian, with English surtitles.
A performance to mark the 30th anniversary of the Strage di Capaci and Strage di Via D'Amelio, the massacres orchestrated by the mafia in 1992 which cost the lives of prominent Sicilian antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone's wife and their bodyguards.
Written by Claudio Fava
Directed by Chiara Callegari
Interpreted by Simone Luglio and Giovanni Santangelo
The play retraces the last few months in the lives of the two judges. Well known and less known events, public and private episodes, give an account of the lives of these two men, their strength, their humanity, their profound respect of the State and of the Law. But also of their joy, irony, anger and, most of all, their solitude.
Claudio Fava is a journalist, playwright and scriptwriter, author of the script of the award-winning film I Cento Passi (One Hundred Steps). Always politically engaged, he has served as a Member of the Italian Parliament, Member of the European Parliament and is currently President of the Sicilian Antimafia Commission.
Chiara Callegaris is a theatre director who has been awarded and shortlisted for several Prizes in the course of her career, including winning the Premio UBU Speciale 2021. Since 2021 she is part of the team of the Teatro Metastasio in Prato (Tuscany).
Simone Luglio is an actor who has worked with some of the most renowned theatres and theatre makers in Italy. He is co-founder of the Popular Shakespeare Kompany, with Valerio Binasco. He has interpreted the judge Giovanni Falcone for the TV fiction La mafia uccide solo d'estate and was in the cast of the film Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello. He is also a director, nominated for the Maschere del teatro Italian Award 2021 for La nuova colonia.
Giovanni Santangelo is a theatre actor who has worked in different types of roles in plays by Martoglio, Verga, Lunari, Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare and Pirandello. His monologue U bottu, about the Capaci massacre, won the Audience Award at the ATtori DOC - Premio Luigi Vannucchi 2017. He has also worked in cinema and tv.
The event is free, however booking is required. Kindly make your booking below.
