‘My name is Patrick Zaki-45 days’ by Ienzi on stage in Tindari and Venice

‘My Name is Patrick Zaki-45 days’, written and directed by Alessandro Ienzi, already winner of the # cittàlaboratorio delle Orestiadi award and presented in national preview in Gibellina last July 23, will be staged at the Greek Theater of Tindari on Monday 30 August at 8.30 pm, while on September 1st he will be a guest of the Masterclass Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy, organized by Picture People and Global Campus of Human Rights during the International Film Festival in Venice. The monologue sees Ienzi on stage who plays Joker, a new Prometheus lost among the historical events following 11 September 2001, after the attack on the Twin Towers, and who, in the vision of the Palermo author, are the primary cause of what it happens today throughout the Middle East. The show is a reinterpretation of the story – which becomes a myth, the greatest example of justice and freedom – which disrupts the life of the young Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki, locked up in Tora prison since February 7, 2020 and whose detention has just been renewed further a few days ago during the umpteenth hearing without any procedural and defense guarantees. “The detention of Patrick Zaki is a setback to all the democratic, liberal and liberal principles of which we feel we are promoters and creators as citizens of the West of the world; values ​​that we would have even wanted to export with the war, and with the financing of terrorist groups, according to the international political strategies now known to all – says Ienzi -. The detention of a university researcher as such or as a member of associations for the promotion of human rights is an unbearable noose to the free determination of each of us. “The first stop of the show will be in Tindari, on August 30, at the Greek Theater , thanks to the support of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Region of Sicily, in a setting that returns to the material and immaterial space of the theater its function of reflection on society and on the journey of humanity. The story of Zaki is the story of all the oppressed, of all those who affirm freedom and who walk the path of the evolution of civil and civic thought through study and research. ” The work is the result of a contamination of a mixture of styles’ “The work is the result of a contamination of a mixture of styles. It was written in four languages: Italian, Spanish, French and English alternate continuously in the words of the Joker, this prometheus chained to the last coast of Egypt for having offered men the sacred fire of freedom and fallen victim to the quarreling gods. for supremacy and power “. On stage, also video contributions documenting what happened in New York, Nice, Strasbourg, Libya and extensive references to the story of Giulio Regeni. Bezinski’s paintings and the projections of the paintings by Basquiat, on the notes of Mahler and Anastasio, accompany the recited text and the silences. “As a lawyer and actor, I feel the duty to investigate the human in its facets, without necessarily making a distinction between good and bad, considering that in each of us there is both one aspect and the other. I also hope that this representation can help convince the political authorities to intervene in order to finally obtain Patrick’s freedom “. On September 1, the show will be performed in reduced form at the Monastery of San Nicolò, in Venice, where Ienzi will also hold a conference for students admitted to participate in the Masterclass Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy.Alessandro Ienzi, lawyer, actor, director and playwright , is a graduate of the Biondo Theater School directed by Emma Dante, winner of the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, author of numerous plays that analyze the thorny contemporary theme of human rights. Special Mention at the Indivenire under 35 Award of the Brancaccio Theater, in 2018, for theatrical innovation and scenic writing. Winner of the Vancouver Film Festival, the Hollywood Golden Age Festival and the Independent Short Festival in Los Angeles, with Andrea B, short film on gender transition and freedom. Specialized at the School of Visual Art in New York, he is the founder of Raizes Teatro and director of the Human Freedom 2021 program supported by Avant-Garde Lawyers of Paris and Global Campus of Human Rights of Venice.