Sardinian actor and director Ignazio Chessa, who loves to tackle strong social issues, returns to New York on April 17th and 18th with two shows. At the Italian American Museum he will present “If Beauty Were Taught” , a show about the journalist Peppino Impastato, killed by the mafia for having denounced criminal crimes on Radio Aut, the counter-information station he founded in 1977, signing his own death warrant.
Inspired by the Commedia dell'Arte, the actor brings to life an unpredictable multitude of characters: a grieving mother, a mafia boss, Peppino himself; until he symbolically becomes the people who never give up. The show features visual inspiration from animator Rotimi Olowu (Adult Swim, Nickelodeon Jr., HBO, Hulu, and FOX) and illustrators M. Rizzo and L. Bonaccorso, authors of the graphic novel Peppino Impastato: a Jester Against the Mafia (BeccoGiallo).
