“Contra Gigantes” by the Teatro Nucleo in Sassari

The third event in the Theatre en vol autumn series: this Sunday at 5 pm, the stage at Via De Martini 145 in Sassari will host “Contra Gigantes,” a production by Teatro Nucleo di Ferrara, starring director and actor Horacio Czertok.

The Argentine-born Italian artist brings to the stage a dismantled Don Quixote, a vigorous monologue in which he questions the story's characters, jumping from one narrative level to another, becoming at times the Don, at times Sancho, at times Cervantes himself.

Barefoot, essential, merciless; with the desire to look into the eyes of the Giants who crush the weakest, Czertok sets the story within the reality of the time, uncovering its accurate political critique through imaginary enemies who, he will show us, were in fact very real: "I suspect that the novel contains coded messages. A critique of justice in the chapter on convicts, of the condition of women in the chapter dedicated to Marcella and Crisostomo, of the enslavement of peasants due to the imposition of mills replacing communal practices for the treatment of grain: the windmill is anything but an imaginary giant.