Following two weeks performing to full houses last season at the Teatro Studio Melato, Tre modi per non morire returns to the Teatro Strehler, offering a theatrical journey à rebours conducted by Toni Servillo through three moments in which a number of poets taught us to seek out life.
Written by Giuseppe Montesano, the piece identifies in Charles Baudelaire, Dante, and the Greek classics the writers who put into practice and continue to teach us the art of not dying. The evening opens with the verses of Baudelaire who, in Monsieur Baudelaire, quando finirà la notte?, explains how beauty fights depression and injustice. It then continues with Le voci di Dante, where the celebrated characters from the Comedy appear to us, bound together by a story that sheds light on them from the present. The final point of arrival is Il Fuoco Sapiente by the Greek poets, in which poetry and philosophy stimulate a vision that is capable of imagining the future.
The theatre of Tre modi per non morire is a way to rediscover those words that an actor says with their entire body and mind to nourish their and our interiority. We are disturbed and frightened, and we all feel that we lack something that we desperately need; we lack love, we lack life. And so? And so, there is nothing left but to try and be alive.