Brecht-Strehler: “Life of Galileo”
theatre stage by Umberto Ceriani

The stage, by Umberto Ceriani, is meant as an important moment of action and reflection on the relation between written and spoken word. Why right Brecht’s Life ofGalileo? as Ceriani himself says “I have a personal affective bond with Brecht and this was one of the first shows of enormous success I took part to when I was a very young actor at Milan’s Piccolo”. The stage will be structured in two days, in the first one Ceriani will directly perform some estracts from Life ofGalileo. On the second day there will be instead a workshop with the stage-attendants on Brecht’s text according to Strehler’s interpretation and of his direction indications. Umberto Ceriani has worked for a long time with Strehler and he was the founder of the theatre cooperative "Teatro-Insieme (theatre together)", that “has the merit of having pointed out a new kind of organization and production in the field of theater, especially for the new generations of actors”. He has ventured upon Greek classics like Euripide and Sofocle, and he has interpreted Shakespeare, Molière, Goldoni, Alfieri, Ibsen, Cechov, D'Annunzio, Pirandello, Gorkij, Brecht, Luzi, Borges, Pasolini, Buzzati. He has been also the protagonist in the role of Primo Levi in “Se questo è un uomo”, an adaptation for the theatre of the drama of Auschwitz and of the Shoah. An important and charming theatre career and a passion for theater that keeps pace with the love for studying and reading.