Red Sox. This is the title of Luca Ravenna’s comedy show, which is selling out throughout Italy and which arrives at the Teatro Comunale this evening. Luca Ravenna, Red Sox is the name of the Boston baseball team. What does it has to do with it?
“I’m very superstitious. I never explain the reason for the title. In the past it has done me good and I continue to do so. Obviously the reference is to the Boston baseball team, but also to the United States. Last summer I was in America, to go on stage and try to do some pieces in New York. I thought it was a good idea to go there to write the show, like musicians do who stay on the French Riviera for a month to write the album.”
Red Sox focuses on various themes, including romance and love: he defined them as themes no longer addressed in the world of young people.
“More than anything at my age. There is never time to enjoy the beautiful part of relationships and it is not clear why the human species is built this way. You have time to fall in love when you are young, but then you enter the warmer years of your life, between work, family, children… and at fifty you end up falling back in love, ‘I met a fantastic girl’ (said with a strong Lombard accent, ed.). And then, sex is to comedy as love is to the Sanremo songs: all the comedians talk about sex. I thought I’d also joke a little about romance and emotions.”
He also talks about the three great Italian taboos: drugs, recommendations and blasphemy.
“In my work there is always the anxiety of the fact that nothing can be said anymore. There are taboos that cannot be joked about. In Italy words have a strong value, but we don’t have the American or English itches. Real taboos here are different, they are linked to drugs, the real one (not weed) and to recommendations: the real Italian taboo”.
And blasphemy?
“I don’t start swearing on stage, but it’s funny that it’s such a hot topic in the country of the Vatican.”
In the years of social media, comedy has changed: you are loved above all by the younger generations.
“Anyone can now edit videos and make people laugh. It works. The Internet has changed the way of joking, but it has also given the possibility of filling clubs, theatres, bars, venues, doing monologues. The Internet has been a very useful showcase, which has allowed to open up to another itchy comedy, but still similar to that of when we joke at the bar. It also allowed me to do shows abroad.”
But the internet is also a double-edged sword. In the beginning it was the internet that took inspiration from comedians. Now you comedians have to chase him.
“It’s absolutely right. The solution is not to follow internet trends. The risk is looking like a grandfather making jokes for kids: fashion gets old.”
2024-03-21 09:45:30
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