Monte Carlo – On October 16, the Théâtre des Variétés will host “Me and Marconi”, a theatre performance celebrating 100 years of radio in Italy and 150 years since the birth of Guglielmo Marconi.
The show, supported by the Italian Embassy in Monaco, is part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World under the theme “Italofonia: language beyond borders.”
Written and scored by Luca Sgamas Guiducci, with the collaboration of Sara Zambotti (host and writer for Caterpillar Radio2), and directed and performed by Francesco Patanè (Nastro d’Argento nominee for The Bad Poet), the play retraces Marconi’s life and the global impact of his groundbreaking invention: the radio.
After being featured at the Science Festivals of Rome, Naples, and Genoa, the trio brings their blend of science, storytelling, and sound to Monaco — honoring, as writer Riccardo Chiaberge put it, “the man who, at the end of the 19th century, invented the third millennium.”