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L’ultima estate – Falcone e Borsellino 30 anni dopo

Tuesday 22 November, 6pm

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 On

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

Introduced by John Dickie

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.

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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.

John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. He is the author of international best-seller Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, published in 2004, which won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year, and went on to write the successful Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007) – now a six-part TV series for History Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. His most recent books are Mafia Brotherhoods (2011), Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse (2013) and The Craft (2020) about the mysterious workings of Freemasonry and the role it played in Italian history. In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana.

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