ALGHERO - Is Ignazio Chessa here or is he here? Where does the fiction, the staging, the performance begin? Impossible to say. Algherese, 58 years old, is an artist in permanent service. Fears, fears, disappointments and bad moods - sadness, even - belong to him as to anyone, especially to those like him who have a civil and political conscience, especially to those who live on art and culture, all the more so now that everything is still, distances complicate live performances and musicians, theatres and artists in general are last among those who are waiting for a real return to normality.
Ignazio gets up in the morning, wears the best smile, rolls up his tongue, trains his incessant fabula and devotes himself body and soul to projects that, in their simplicity, are always extraordinary. The last one is called "AgriTeatrí. Theatre, music, food and arts", a series of events between theatre, music, poetry and fairytale. The stage that hosts it is an agritourism. The armchairs? Bales of hay "numbered, sanitized anatomical", jokes the creator of the shows - the first two were sold out - which will go on until mid-July. The company that has taken up the challenge of the actor, director, author, auctioneer, ringleader, presenter, comedian and more is "I vigneti". Municipality of Olmedo, formally, but in fact it is in the great countryside of Alghero.
With the generosity of those who believe in what he does, the determination of those who do not bend their knees in the face of difficulties, with the obstinacy of those who are dreamers beyond all reasonable limits, he moved to the open countryside the activity that, after an artistic life without a fixed abode, had condensed in his penultimate genius: Lo Teatrì, a 25-seat wedding favors obtained practically in a garage, at most a small business, at 85 Via Manzoni, in Alghero, the city where he lives and loves without reserve.
"Lo Teatrì now moves outdoors", says Ignazio Chessa at ANSA. In addition to the "I vigneti" company, there are the many who participate to get the local entertainment industry moving again. And there was a crowdfunding with good results. "Many people with a common effort put their professional skills to work to offer an honest, generous and special product, wishing to recover serenity and cultivating the hope of succeeding," he explains. For 20 euros you get the show, a glass of wine to welcome you, and the final tasting of some typical Sardinian cuisine. "Participating you have fun and help to distribute small savings among the professionals, artists and technicians, who participate in this experience," says the man who can not stand still. More than wanting to, sometimes things just need to be done. (ANSA). Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Di Gian Mario Sias, ANSA Agency