Alain Toubas and Testori's "Triumphs"

More than two thousand three hundred letters. Handwritten. In French. Between 1959 and 1962. "Dear Alain, I'm so sorry...", the first words. Confirming that the love story between Giovanni Testori and the gallery owner Alain Toubas had the characteristics of a passionate love from the very beginning. The bond would last thirty years, leaving an indelible mark on both their lives. But the epistolary nature of this debut remains a mystery, given that the correspondence has never been transcribed or published. Nor have the drawings and postcards that accompany it. Unpublished material. Which enriches "Per sempre," premiering on Wednesday the 22nd at the LAC in Lugano , and then arriving at the Piccolo Teatro Studio , which co-produces the show, in early December. A monologue. Written and performed by Alessandro Bandini , one of the young talents of Testori's Hamlet Workshop in Latella and winner of the Mariangela Melato Hystrio Prize. With Ugo Fiore as dramaturg. "The letters are a true unfinished work," Bandini emphasizes, "a written map, a canvas that Testori sketches and fills with his pictorial, musical, and topographical universes. He doesn't describe, he paints. Transforming each letter into a portrait of his beloved. It is the man speaking: a man struggling in the storm of his own love and who, unknowingly, is generating the poetic language of the future." A solo. While the letters intertwine with Testori's "I Trionfi." Diego Vincenti

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