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Trieste, ebrei e dintorni - Text fragments

In the gloom and silence of the theatre, we hear the voice of the witness (in the dialect of Trieste):

 "I remember, when the war ended in 1918, the Jewish institutions of Trieste were born almost immediately. The Jewish Association of Young Fascists was founded and I can't remember if the Zionist group was born then...well, anyway, a number of groups and associations. Right after the end of the war, we started spending time together, all these young people, and a real feeling was born which had never been there before".

(Alma Morpurgo - october 1998)

   

 
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Trieste, ebrei e dintorni - Author's notes

"I put myself in the position of one who peeps through the keyhole and then tells what he sees without any explanatory intent, just wanting to communicate and share his impressions and whatever suggestions that view gave him; and hoping for the miracle of theatre, that those same impressions and suggestions might resonate with the emotions of others.

I begin from when Trieste was a free port and opened its gates to anyone bringing a contribution to its development, including thieves, whores and Jews, naturally! Then I continue by retracing the stages in the growth of Trieste's great bourgeoisie, with an aside about the Jewish presence in the commerce of money and the insurance business. I also speak about the echos of the Dreyfuss Affair and make quick references to Zionism, Irredentism, Socialism, Fascism and then arrive at the Apocalypse of the war and the mortal wound to the city which was the San Saba concentration camp (Risiera di San Saba). This I achieve by following the steps of Trieste's most celebrated intellectuals, its most singular personalities and the authentic voices of the witnesses, of those who were actually there and saw it all, those who still remember. To this purpose, I had the great honor of receiving the testimony and memories of a number of extraordinary characters, such as Alma Morpurgo, Giorgio Voghera, Nathan Wiesenfeld, Silvio Cusin, who lent themselves with kindness and availability to the delirium of a theatre artist and an outsider as myself. I hope that their voices, heard in fragments during the performance, give the audience the same emotions and move them as much as they did me. It remains that the show is of an absolute simplicity: I tell anecdotes and stories, I read aloud and recite some poems, I sing accompanied by a small orchestra (my TheaterOrchestra, ever-present in all my shows) and, together with the audience, I take delight in the magical voice of Lee Colbert and the enchanted grace of Ida and Ettore Selva, the dancers."

Moni Ovadia
(Testo tratto da un'intervista di Elisa Savi per "Trieste A Teatro")

   

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