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July 19, 9:00 p.m.

CENTOVENTISEI
Mondadori, 2022

Talk with author Claudio Fava
Scripts read by actor: David Coco

An old killer in disarmament, a suspicious wife in her ninth month of pregnancy, a madman who wants to become a mafioso. It all happens on a summer night in Palermo, with the air still and the city empty. Around the theft of a one hundred and twenty-six revolves a crescendo of premonitions, misunderstandings, revelations and escapes. In the background, the dense and at times grotesque shadow of Cosa Nostra and its death plans. Until the night fades into a clear and unpredictable dawn.
Claudio Fava and Ezio Abbate write a fulminatingly effective story in which, without ever mentioning it, they allude to the preparations for the Via D’Amelio massacre in ’92. They distance themselves from the chronicle of events, but stage three characters in whose lives and personalities we see the world of those who were born under the Mafia and are used to reasoning and acting according to the pattern ‘I obey or I die, I kill or I am killed’.