Maurizio Battista: “I’ll tell you about a country with three ‘i’, incoherent, improbable and irreverent”

“We are excited, the topic is big. I’m going back to the stage to tell about our country, a country with three ‘i’s: inconsistent, improbable and irreverent”. To say this to Adnkronos is Maurizio Battista, revealing the fil rouge of the show with which he returns, after the pandemic has stopped, to the stage. The actor will in fact be at the Olympic Theater in Rome from 22 June to 4 July with ‘Che Paese è il mio Paese’, a show written by Battista with the collaboration of Vittorio Rombolà, Alberto Farina and Gianluca Giugliarelli, which highlights the typicality, in continuous evolution, which distinguish our boot. “We will analyze this country that if you see it from the outside is very fun, if you stay in it a little less – explains the comedian – The many contradictions, which emerge above all when we see the period we have passed, and which will see me put a bit of a derision Italians”. The topics will be the ‘hot’ ones that affect our compatriots closely, without neglecting the more delicate ones such as covid, the issue of vaccines, the recovery after the pandemic, but “always with great respect”. An example? “When they weren’t there, everyone hoped for the vaccine to arrive – the actor jokes – when they arrived, doubts began ‘I’m what I’m not doing’, ‘but what are they telling me’, and so on” . Among the topics that will make those who go to the Olimpico laugh, there is also that of ‘politically correct’ at all costs. “Who is politically correct is a hypocrite, this is the synonym – this is Battista’s biting synthesis – However, the reality is that politically correct means that you cannot talk about minorities, weak groups, while I did a little investigation and discovered that those they speak of are not actually weak groups but millions of people, therefore not a minority “. In the show we laugh, but there is also room for emotion. “There is a surprise ending that I don’t want to ‘spoil’ – Battista anticipates – but I can assure you that, in addition to laughter, there will also be room for tears. Seeing is believing”.