Valter Malosti, Director and performer of “Maddalene”; Andrée Ruth Shammah, Franco Parenti Theatre Cooperative; Andrea Soffiantini, Actor. Moderated by Giuseppe Frangi, Journalist, Testori House Cultural Association. 

“The theater is today the only place outside of Mass where man can still defend the incarnation of Christ’s word and himself as the place of this incarnation.” This was a deep conviction of Testori, also shared in his relationship with Don Giussani. Testori was one of the greatest Italian playwrights of the 20th century. He went through different periods, establishing relationships with many protagonists of Italian theater, starting with Luchino Visconti. In 1973, he embarked on the exciting adventure of founding a new theater in Milan, with a great actor, Franco Parenti, and a young director, André Ruth Shammah. It is André Ruth Shammah who is the protagonist of this meeting, where she will recount 20 years of friendship and work with Testori. In 1978, the writer also started an experience of choral theater, involving the young actors of the dell’Arca Theater in Forlì. Among them is Andrea Soffiantini, for whom Testori had also written “Factum est,” a text that Soffiantini still includes in his repertoire. Valter Malosti, the third protagonist of the meeting, did not know Testori personally. However, he has been one of the directors who most assiduously and creatively frequented and staged his plays, including “Maddalene,” which is being performed at this edition of the Meeting at the Galli Theater.