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Here come the So-and-so
by and with Alessandro Bergonzoni
Thursday, March 5 at the Donizetti Theater

 

Alessandro Bergonzoni, comedian and other actor, returns to Bergamo, and on Thursday, March 5, at the Donizetti Theater (8:30 p.m.), as part of the Donizetti Theater Foundation’s Altri Percorsi series, he presents Here Come the So-and-so (Fry, Blue Sun and the Story of the Young Saracinesca), a show in which its protagonist traverses words like a tightrope walker with his very personal stylistic signature. Directed by Bergonzoni himself, who also signs the scenes, and Riccardo Rodolfi.

The sequel to the highly successful Trascendi e Sali, seen in Bergamo in 2021, Arrivano i Dunque is a scenic, multifunctional venue where Bergonzoni continues his artistic research in the territories that in recent years have seen him actively participate firsthand in both artistic and social events. And if in this new show one wants to find another Bergonzonian figure, along with the comic writing of course, one has to look for it in “Crealtà,” another of his inventions, which makes explicit, in a thought that becomes a neologism, the true moral tension of this unique artist: the attempt to recreate a reality that is not only no longer enough but that we can/should reinvent day by day in search of a future of absolute peace and definitively more welcoming to the thresholds of new perceptions and other meanings.

This is how the Bolognese actor himself introduces his show: “An auction of thoughts. I look for the best (s)oferent to enchant the verse of things: perhaps of bird or poet.
I start from the disproportionate, for the recast, with the conjunctionivite, I cross the misunderstand, to the disproportionate unity, between art and fate, fammingos and pyromaniacs, van Gogh and Bangkok, good and Mahler, blood out of hand and stigmata, stigmata and astigmatics, Dali to Allah. C’realtà. Lunire to the existing the atranuova san(t)itá, in our larvate fry. Grossomodo, following my extinct, preganti to continue infnire. I got carried away (married or saved from drowning?). Time presses, it’s not always embrace, but rope or sheet. Just aface on the percipizio and hear lindimostrabiliante shamanumanesimo translated into exasperanto. The “èscatological” set design, the blue sun, the young portcullis on (hermetic because I mystery), altrista in an otherness where nothing happens without all. Is there little missing? Is so much useless? Not for nothing everything asks!”

Alessandro Bergonzoni was born in Bologna in 1958. Artist, actor, author. Fifteen plays to his credit and six books. In cinema: Pinocchio (2001) by Roberto Benigni and Quijotet (2006) by Mimmo Paladino. For years he has written Aprimi Cielo on “Friday of the Republic” and The Thought of the Day on Robinson, since 2005 he has approached the world of art exhibiting in various galleries and museums. He combines his artistic career with a deep interest in social issues such as incarceration, immigration, illness and peace by holding meetings on these topics in various settings. He won the 2004/2005 Critic’s Prize, the Hystrio Prize in 2008 and the UBU Prize in 2009. Since 2015 he has presented the performative installation Tutela dei beni: corpi del (C)reato ad arte (the value of a work, in person) in various National Pinacotecas. In 2020 for Garzanti comes out Aprimi cielo, ten years of recollection, articulated. In 2022 he is awarded the Volponi Cup for literary work, the National Culture of Peace-City of Sansepolcro Award, and, in 2023, the Montale Out of Home Award. In 2024, in addition to the debut of Arrivano i Dunque, he inaugurated the installation Vite Sospese at Mudima in Milan.