Molecole d'autore in cerca di memoria
Dramma scientifico-civile in due atti
Author(s)
Dei, Luigi
Language
ItalianAbstract
Freely adapted from Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, the drama takes place in a Fahrenheit 451-like scenario. In this world without books or memory, a man from the street appears with some pieces of paper, almost undecipherable: with the help of the narrative voice, of his friends - Science, Technology and Nature - and of two actors, Primo and his friend Alberto, the man manages to reconstruct the episode Cerium’s story. Thanks to the memory, the lost identity, that is our story, is reconstructed. Science, Technology and Nature allow the man without memory to take possession of scientific knowledge and to emancipate himself from his state. The drama finds its catharsis by taking a moving turn, inspired by the short story Carbon, which lyrically creates a timeless connection between a carbon atom of the smoke of a crematorium and the same atom dwelling in the body of some of us, a poetic parable of a science immersed in the life and history of man.
Keywords
Primo Levi; science; technology; nature; memory and historyISBN
9788855180153, 9788855180146, 9788855180160, 9788855189804Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2020Series
Libere carte,Classification
Theatre studies
Dance
Other performing arts
Chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Environmental science, engineering and technology