Man Is Poetry

After Fabrizio Gifuni last season, the tribute to Orazio Costa is entrusted to Gabriele Lavia with Uomo è poesia. For Orazio Costa, poetry is not a mere literary form: it is the highest expression of being and the deepest core of his Mimic Method. The great pedagogue considered the poetic word a living organism, endowed with its own physicality and a rhythm that the actor must assimilate and restitute through body and voice. Reciting verses means stripping away psychological realism, to embody the very essence of the text, becoming the "mime" of poetic expression. This visceral bond, nourished by his partnership with Mario Luzi and by the study of Dante, transforms theatre into a rite of spiritual revelation, where diction becomes an organic act and the word becomes flesh on stage.