State Road 18 is a symbol, one of those roads that crosses the South. It goes from Naples to Reggio Calabria. It is busy, busy and deadly, dotted with bends, tunnels, dangerous crossroads. It winds between enchanting views, places of neglect and shameful ugliness. In the background, there is unbridled squatting, reckless management of the sea and cemented coastlines, but also the ills and contradictions of local places and communities plagued by violence, social disorder and a hidden restlessness. Mauro Francesco Minervino, anthropologist and writer, recounts it through the pages of Statale 18, Fandango 2010, between invective and poetry, and uses it as a pretext to describe an Italy still too divided between beauty and degradation, backwardness and modernity. On stage, actress Laura Marchianò performs, through excerpts selected from Minervino's book, her inner journey in the relationship with her mother-land, accompanied by popular music by Maestro Francesco Pignataro.
