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CORRADO AUGIAS - EMILIO GENTILE - MASSIMO POPOLIZIO
The title of the play is already indicative of its content Mussolini: I defend myself! The authors have imagined that a revived Benito Mussolini called to to answer on some crucial moments of his 20-year period could assert the political, historical and personal reasons for his behavior. It opens with the meeting in Piazza Sansepolcro to Milan in 1919 during which the Fasci di Combattimento were founded; the murder of Giacomo Matteotti; the so-called 'fascistissime' laws with which a true dictatorial regime began; the racial laws of 1938; the entry into the war in 1940; and, finally, the meeting of the Grand Council on July 25, 1943 from which Mussolini emerged politically dead. Massimo Popolizio plays the role of Mussolini; Professor Emilio Gentile, one of the greatest historians of fascism, supports the prosecution; Corrado Augias leads the discussion. Interestingly, many of the arguments supported from Mussolini are drawn from the papers he himself had prepared for his own defense before an American court to which he hoped to turn himself in. Things later turned out very differently, as is well known.
by and with Corrado Augias, Emilio Gentile
with the participation of** Massimo Popolizio**
text collaborator and director Francesco Frisari
Corvino productions
Journalist and writer, Corrado Augias was born to Rome. He spent many years abroad. Paris first then New York, from where he was a correspondent for the weekly "L'Espresso" and the daily "La Repubblica." For "La Repubblica," he edits the daily column of correspondence with readers. He has published many fiction and non-fiction books, written for the theater, conceived and hosted numerous television programs. Remarkable fortune and numerous translations have had his books devoted to the 'secrets' of cities and the figure of Jesus. Since 2006, again with Corvino Productions, he has been staging shows dedicated to great figures in the history of music and art in theaters throughout Italy and beyond.
An internationally renowned historian, he is professor emeritus of the University of Rome La Sapienza and a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2003 he received the Hans Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern for his studies on religions of politics. He contributes to the "Sole 24 at". Among his works for our types, translated into major languages:_ The Cult of the Littorio_; The Religions of Politics; Fascism. History and Interpretation; The Great Italy; God's Democracy (Burzio Prize); Stone Fascism; Neither State nor Nation; Italians without Fathers (to edited by S. Fiori); And it was immediately regime. Fascism and the March on Rome (City of Roses Prize; _ finalist and winner of the President's Award at the Viareggio Prize); Two Gunshots, Ten Million Dead the End of a World. Illustrated History of the Great War; The Leader and the Crowd; "In democracy the people are always sovereign." "False!; Mussolini vs. Lenin." "July 25, 1943."
An actor and voice actor, he took his first steps in theater with Luca Ronconi, with whom he collaborated for ten years. A graduate of the Silvio d´Amelo Academy, he established himself on the big screen with _Mio fratello è figlio unico,_ Romanzo Criminale, Il Divo and Era d´estate _by Fiorella Infascelli, for which he won the Nastro d´Argento Specialedei 70. Winner of the Nastro d´Argento for the dubbing of Hamlet, he lent his voice to Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, to Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut and to Lionel Abelanski (Shlomo) in Train de vie. In 1995 he won an Ubu Award as best actor for the plays William Shakespeare's King Lear and _Verso Peer Gynt _inspired by Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt; he was awarded again in 2001 for Carlo Goldoni's The Two Venetian Twins. In 2006 he was awarded the Eschilo d'Oro, given to him from by INDA. In 2008 he won the E.T.I. Gli Olimpici del Teatro (Vicenza) Award as best leading actor for Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhard. In 2015 with _Lehman Trilogy _by Luca Ronconi he won the Ubu Award as best actor of the year. In 2016 he made his directorial debut with Arthur Miller's The Price and to followed with Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Ragazzi di vita" with which he won four awards at the 2017 Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano Award: Best Play of the Year, Best Director, Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress. In 2017 he brings to the stage the play Copenhagen under the direction of Mauro Avogadro. In 2018 he will direct _I Masnadieri _by Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. Over the years he collaborates with important musicians such as Uri Caine, Paolo Fresu, Fabrizio Bosso, Enrico Rava.