L'angelo della storia

Venue: Teatro Faraggiana (Via dei Caccia, 1F). Organizer: Fondazione Nuovo Teatro Faraggiana At 21.00 Stalls tickets € 23,00-18,00 / Boxes tickets € 23,00-18,00 / Gallery tickets € 17,00-12,00 In his last work the philosopher Walter Benjamin describes an angel flying with his gaze turned to the past, his back to the future: the rubble of buildings and ideologies piles up before his eyes (musical instruments at the bottom of the ocean, malfunctioning radar, stranded whales) and the angel would like to stop and put the debris back together (dead newborns, statues in Antarctica, fluorescent rabbits), but a storm inflates his wings and drags him inexorably forward (mass hysterical dances, jammed parachutes, millionaire cats): this storm is what we call progress.