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IL TRADIMENTO DELLE ÉLITES GENERA MOSTRI… TRUMP
We will have four years of the most spectacular presidency in history, by comparison the memories of Obama, Reagan, Kennedy... will pale. Recounting the exploits of The Donald, a show of "theatrical journalism" to offer viewers a journey into the new populisms, their causes, their consequences.
A scheme to paintings, accompanied by musicians Valentino Corvino and Roberta Giallo, and the soundtrack to music by Bob Dylan the Rolling Stones: because Trump has used them extensively in his rallies, but also because their lyrics are "bad," aggressive, provocative.
The story and portrait of a controversial businessman, serial banker, molester of Miss Universe, inventor of a successful reality TV show, until his improbable rise to the White House. How the establishment derided him to the last, what and how many enormities he managed to to do on the campaign trail, always rising again.
Is the America that voted for him, after electing Obama twice, a "different" nation? Unrecognizable, warped, gone mad? Or instead were the causes of social unrest already clearly visible before, and he intercepted them by upsetting all the rules of political correctness?
What is "revolutionary" about Trump's language, and why he has also been able to speak uncomfortable truths about immigration, globalization.
The Age of Chaos. Before and after Trump, populist movements and the growing fascination with the Strong Man had emerged from old Europe: Putin, Erdogan, Xi Jinping. And after Brexit in Europe, elections in France and Germany will offer us constant updates and variations on the theme...
The betrayed promises of globalization. It was supposed to make us all richer, at least in the proclamations of neoliberal single thinking. How and why it has turned into a leveler of North-South inequalities (Chindia) but at the same time a vicious machine of impoverishing workers and the middle class inside our Western societies.
Multiethnic society and its frailties. New York and California as positive models: however, they have not healed the fear of deep America. Europe and the challenge of Islamic immigration. Why the wave of arrivals from North Africa and the Middle East poses different problems than to previous immigrations.
Healing democracy, or giving in to authoritarian temptations? Did the 1930s teach us anything?
These are some of the themes discussed and the questions to which Federico and Jacopo Rampini attempt, in the theater, to give an explanation.
by and with Federico and Jacopo Rampini
and with music performed live from
Valentino Corvino violin, electronics
Roberta Giallo voice
lighting, video and direction Angelo Generali
Corvino Productions production
we thank the Association ABC - Bologna and Alessandro Ruggeri
Since 2009, from New York has been reporting on America in its economic, social and lifestyle aspects; from the Big Apple, in fact, he is a correspondent for La Repubblica. Before that he was in China, correspondent for the same newspaper, and from here he reported on Asian scenarios. He often follows as a correspondent the major international summits (G-8, G-20, World Economic Forum in Davos), as well as the affairs of the White House, being an accredited journalist at the Presidency of the United States of America. In addition to his journalistic work, Rampini is a fascinating and knowledgeable speaker who ranges from economic topics (global scenarios and trends, financial market outlook, dynamics of the U.S.-China-Europe relationship, technological innovation, the energy sector, manufacturing and agribusiness, the chronicle of the great crisis as seen by top U.S. experts) to those of lifestyle and social trends and customs (new styles of consumption, healthism, environmentalism, the Slow Economy, i.e., post-crisis growth models, the Internet, the web and new sources of knowledge and information), to Italian scenarios, telling the story of our country from the point of view from America and China. Federico Rampini is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations based to New York and Washington; the CFR is America's leading geopolitics and geoeconomics think tank. He is the author of numerous essays, translated into several languages. To mention the most recent: Bankers. Stories from the New Global Banditry (Mondadori), All You Need is Love. The economy explained with Beatles songs (Mondadori),_ Mistress Network. Amazon, Apple, Google & co. The dark face of the digital revolution_ (Feltrinelli), The Age of Chaos. Journey into the Great World Disorder (Mondadori), Betrayal. Globalization and immigration, the lies of the elites (Mondadori). In theater he has written and staged three shows: Occidente estremo (2012), _L'economia spiegata con i Beatles _(2014) and L'età del caos (2017) all produced and distributed from Promo Music - Corvino Produzioni.
Born to Rome, he trained as an actor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Stella Adler Stdio in New York, as well as the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He lived to Milan and to Paris, where he earned a degree in Literature and Philosophy from the Sorbonne, and then settled to New York where he works in both theater and television. Among others, he played the young Stalin in the series The World Wars for History Channel (2014), and on Netflix he starred in Medici: Masters of Florence (2016), and Brown Nation (2016).