Assisi (PG) - It 'a beautiful and little-known page of recent Italian history that emerges from the stage in the name of Lea, written by and starring Sara Myrtles Paul Armentano directed by Graziano Lazzari with the musical score by Massimiliano Dragoni, which will be staged Friday, February 17 at 21.00 at the Teatro Metastasio on the initiative of Resonars.
It 's the story of the 300 Jewish refugees in Assisi that between 1943 and 1944 managed to escape Nazi deportation thanks to the work of a clandestine committee made up of people of different political and religious beliefs.
Was born in the city a veritable underground organization to rescue Jews, coordinated by Bishop Giuseppe Placido Nicolini and the young priest Don Aldo Brunacci, which were active Rufino Niccacci Father, Father Guardian of S. Damian, and printers Communists and the Assisi Louis Trento Brizi.
The play is being presented to Metastasio after the success in the representation staged in the theater Muse in Ancona is the story of those real events seen through the eyes of a woman, Lea, a young Jewish refugee in Assisi at the time old lady and now engaged in a single mission: Do not forget this story.
The protagonist of the work is inspired by the figure of Graziella Viterbi, whose story is based on the text. The same Graziella Viterbi, invited by the Municipality of Assisi, Assisi will be to witness the spectacle of January 17, linked to its history.
The show is free admission.
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