Dante in Sassari for Generation Z. The Montessori school experiment in via Satta, part of the San Donato comprehensive institute, is growing, having chosen the Supreme Poet for an original staging inspired by the Divine Comedy. “Dante Cringe” is the title of the show performed yesterday at the Auser headquarters in Largo Monache Cappuccine by 14 children from the second and third A classes of the first grade secondary school and which was guided by the three support teachers Rita Fiori, Ilaria Fundoni and Angelo La Licata. «It is a work born - they explain - from the observations of the children and many ideas emerged during the lessons». The performance is full of youth slang, often Anglophone, from “ghostato” to “dissing”, with which the characters of the poem are seen through the lens of the world of the so-called “Centennials”.
"Through active and participatory teaching we tried to bring Dante closer to young people and we grew up with them". Beatrice thus becomes a talkative teenager armed with a cell phone, Ulysses a courageous traveler but also a serial traitor dumped by Penelope, and there is no shortage of passages of a "maranza" in a chain and explanations of the terminology dedicated to the "boomers" in the room. "We started last year with a work on classical poems - add the three teachers - and a work on Pandora in a feminist version. Now the Azuni high school has called us to represent Dante Cringe in the civic theater for the upcoming Dante Day".
At the end of the work the boys pass by with hat in hand collecting the alms. «It is a way to self-finance the next school trip to Naples in which we will twin with a Montessori school». In the meantime the institute of San Donato, led by the director Patrizia Mercuri, confirms itself as one of the most fertile educational realities of the capital of Turritano. «We have just received - reports Mercuri - 95 thousand euros from the Fondazione di Sardegna for the project “Scuola bene comune” that will allow us to work, especially in the summer, with many associations and among the planned activities there will also be the open-air cinema in the courtyard of San Donato».
