On the cent of the year since the birth of Giuseppe Fava, the Teatro Stabile di Catania pays homage to the journalist killed by the mafia in 1984, with the debut in the national premiere of his unpublished text “The Gospel according to Judah”. The show, whose adaptation and direction are entrusted to his son Claudio, will be staged from tomorrow to Sunday to the future room. On stage the Messina actors Maurizio Marchetti and Antonio Alveario and then David Coco, Manuela Ventura, Liborio Natali, Alessandro Romano and Matteo Ciccioli.
“The Gospel according to Judas” is a text that allows itself to be two fundamental disobediences. The first, the most unpredictable: the gaze and voice of this Gospel are those of the last of the last, the Reietto by definition, or Judas. Yet perhaps for this gaze that comes from the margins, the story takes another direction, loses its sacredness and humanizes, becomes flesh and feeling. How life is when it comes out of the temple and meets women and men. The other disobedience is having projected this story in a time, present, the painful and rebellious time that was by Giuseppe Fava when he wrote this piece, more than forty years ago.
Calabling by their pedestals, the teacher and the apostles are now around us, with defects and rabbies, lords and presumptions. They resemble us. A blasphemous gospel? Not at all: a gospel, concrete and together grotesque, the story of fallacious lives, of absolute loves, betrayals and rebellions, of misunderstandings, paradoxes, always imperfect truths.
The direction of Claudio Fava wanted to restore the freshness of an intuition to the text: imagine us, on the stage, as improbable apostles, all attempted and attempted by earthly life. That is, the one that you cross and consume here and now.