Tempo di Scirocco

...Ernesto Ragazzoni was a tender, whimsical little boy in gray locks, who went around the world without a watch or an umbrella.When we asked him why he had such an enmity with watches, he would impatiently reply, "They're paid so that they all say the same thing!"...

Ernesto Ragazzoni was a wonderful writer, poet and journalist. And above all, a free-thinking and brilliant man. He was born on Lake Orta, in Orta San Giulio, in 1870 and died to Turin in 1920. As with other great men of thought, dissipators of themselves, Ernesto Ragazzoni's fame has managed to reach to us, despite critics and almost in the absence of critics. Exclusively thanks to those who loved him esteemed and appreciated him by reading him.This theatrical production responds to the desire to pay tribute to the poet and the man, with the hope of contributing to further popularize Ragazzoni'sopera , which certainly deserves to be widely known.

On stage are five actors, three men - one of whom impersonates Ernesto Ragazzoni himself - and two women, and a pianist who accompanies the exposition of the texts, making to stretches of music complementary to the texts themselves.The theatrical "place" is the editorial office of a hypothetical newspaper, in 1919, where Ragazzoni intervenes - to his way - and interacts with fellow journalists.