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Le storie del Signor Keuner - Story

A political show about our own times and about the meaning of the theatre. A visionary escape into the chaos of the nineteen-hundreds. In the year of the 50th anniversary of Bertolt Brecht's death, Roberto Andò and Moni Ovadia have chosen a masterpiece of Brechtian literature, The Stories of Mr. Keuner. This collection of parables and short stories reveals to us a Brecht in exile from his own certainties, close to the territories of Kafka, closer to us, and a complete discovery, as it has never been published.

Keuner is the exiled Brecht's alter-ego. A double exile, that of the German artist, as was Keuner's. Exiled from his country because of his opposition to Nazism and, as such, forced to an uncertain existence (in which "he carried a brick around, in order to show how his house had once been"), Brecht suffers a second, perhaps more painful, exile upon his return home to his own Berlin: The Communism he'd always hoped for, revealed itself to be ever more obtuse and self-referential. "Keuner" - Ovadia tells us – "is, in a certain measure, a Brecht in exile from his own certainties, who imparts instructions in order to help us keep afloat in an era in which everything is losing its sense." "Mr. Keuner"- says Roberto Andò - "seems to be born from Brecht's pen in order to narrate the epic struggle of the nineteen-hundreds between Failure and Utopia, between a Justice in which rules are unknown and the rebirth of a probable social justice. His voice comes to us like that of an older brother who has become "a bit light-headed by the confusion of the conflict". "

   
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