Valter Malosti brings to the stage, for the first time without mediation, the unmistakable steadfast and mild voice of Primo Levi's If This is a Man. An uninterrupted monologue that makes the word protagonist and returns to this unrepeatable work its first dimension of acoustic work: a bare voice that reproduces the babel of the concentration camp, orchestrating it on the languages ​​spoken in that perimeter of barbed wire.

Valter Malosti transposes the voice that more than any other has been able to make Auschwitz speak, that of Primo Levi in ​​If this is a man, relying on the power of speech to illuminate the atrocious journey towards the demolition of man by the man. On the stage the gentle and firm voice of the writer and witness of the Lager unmistakable resounds, which for over seventy years has been telling the world the horror and folly of the Nazi extermination with the most atrocious and most beautiful book of adventures of the twentieth century, for the first time on stage without any mediation. The scenic condensation of the text, edited by Domenico Scarpa and by Malosti himself, reverberates through an uninterrupted monologue that makes the word protagonist, very strong, inexhaustible and indelible in the consciences. And it is precisely the voice of Levi that echoes in that of Malosti, giving back to this unrepeatable first work its dimension of acoustic work: a naked voice that reproduces the babel of the concentration camp - the sounds, the threats, the orders, the noise of the death factory - orchestrating it on the languages ​​spoken in that perimeter of barbed wire. Survive and tell.
The voice of If this is a man distills a multitude of expressive, narrative, perceptive registers, the "apart" meditative, moral, political and even scientific, that Malosti converts on stage into a polyphonic quantity of dimensions and chiaroscuro. If this is a man he brings the horror of humanity back into sound and image: that historical "misery" that has allowed us to erase human dignity - the denial of the right to consider ourselves "man" affirmed by Levi.