A theatrical performance focusing on the correspondence between Claude Eatherly and Günther Anders. Directed by Claudia Sorace, with Alessandro Berti and Gabriele Portoghese.
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Event location: Sala Leo de Berardinis, Teatro Arena del Sole, Via dell'Indipendenza 44
Type: Cluster 1 - Trauma and Memory
The Muta Imago duo travels among the ghosts of Hiroshima to talk about a world that has lost its innocence; the show explores the theme of individual responsibility in the face of historical events and the consequences of an extraordinary event in an individual's life.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, Texan meteorologist and aviator Claude Eatherly gives the final go-ahead for the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima. From that day on, his life changed radically; he was the only one who could not free himself from the ghosts of the innocent victims who died because of his actions.
Interned in a psychiatric hospital, one morning in April he received the first letter from the philosopher Günther Anders, who was interested in his case: an intense correspondence began between the two, who saw in each other the possibility of finding salvation.
Their exchanges inspire the dramaturgy of the work, set in a place recreated according to a cinematic imagination and with the presence on stage of the two protagonists played by Gabriele Portoghese and Alessandro Berti.
The play traverses 1900s America to recount the loss of innocence of a world that, since that day on August 6, 1945, has continually grappled with the probability of its definitive end.
For more information: https://bologna.emiliaromagnateatro.com/spettacolo/atomica/
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