(ANSA) – CATANIA, NOVEMBER 16 – A volume to commemorate the great actor Turi Ferro, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, through the archive pages of the newspaper of his city. This is the heart of “Turi Ferro, the leading actor.
Catania and the world per stage “, edited by the journalist Giorgio Romeo for Domenico Sanfilippo publisher (Dse) and available on newsstands with the newspaper La Sicilia. The work has a preface by the theatrical critic of La Stampa, Masolino d’Amico, and the afterword by the researcher of Disciplines of the show of the University of Catania, Simona Scattina.
Through the signatures of critics and journalists such as Domenico Danzuso, Ombretta Grasso, Piero Isgrò, Maria Lombardo, Domenico Tempio, Tony Zermo, the catanese and international face of the lead actor emerges. The volume also contains two unpublished contributions: the first by the journalist, critic and writer Filippo Arriva, who was able to follow the company of the Teatro Stabile di Catania in some successful performances abroad; the other by Laura Cavallaro, a theater scholar belonging to the new generation of critics who focused on the television Turi Ferro.
“Ferro had the great gift of knowing how to reach the spectator’s heart regardless of the latitude of the stage that saw him as the protagonist, – observes Romeo – and yet he never lost his identity as a Sicilian, which he always knew how to reaffirm, avoiding the trap of provincialism. all are the pages of the newspaper La Sicilia from which emerge not only the profile of an extraordinary artist, but also that of a great man, who knew how to make his city, his people great with him “. The volume reconstructs a 360-degree vision of the Sicilian actor, who worked mainly in prose but who was also experimented a lot on radio, television and cinema, always reaching the highest peaks. His interpretations of Pirandello’s characters are unforgettable, characterized by a make-up and posture that changed their connotations, up to the extraordinary Freud. (HANDLE).
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