Play by Mario Putzulu
La Lettre d'Italie is a play written and directed by Mario Putzulu, brother of Bruno Putzulu, the lead actor.
A word from the author: the birth of “La Lettre”.
“A few days after my father died, my mother handed me a jacket: 'It's as good as new. You're not much taller than your dad, so it should fit you.”
I refused at first. Wearing it would have meant taking my father's place, but I quickly reversed my refusal because I sensed that for my mother, it was a way of keeping his place in the world. In the pocket: a hole. What if there was a secret in the lining? I didn't know much about my father's life in Sardinia before he emigrated to France. What if there was a letter in the lining that would reveal a hidden part of his life? I found nothing, but the idea of the letter in the lining pursued me as if my father had sent me a sign. To make him exist, again.”
The discovery of a letter that was not intended for him will take Luca on a quest for the lost paradise of childhood, in the footsteps of his father.
This father, Zuani, a shepherd from Sardinia, had fled hunger to become Jean, a worker in France. For Luca, the secret revealed by the letter disrupts the meaning of the bond between Jean and Zuani.
The search for a new meaning is punctuated by moments of darkness, light, pain and sweet nostalgia.
From this light-obsorption, perhaps radiant days will emerge.
