"Jesus ... I think!" Andrea Giachi
Introduction by Brother Matthew Pugliares
(Essays, Religion, Spirituality)
Creative Editions Series
Pleiades
€ 10.00
Review "L'Arena di Verona"
"explains Jesus with the cabaret "
Not bad for little children who have more than ten years and sometimes are not even Christians. The creator of this is Andrea Giachi, Verona thirty years. On his business card it says "writer, comedian, songwriter, teacher of religion." But you could safely say that it is neither a writer or comedian or singer if it was not primarily a teacher of religion. Because his book "Jesus ... I think" (Creative Editions), which has given rise to a cabaret show, rooted in everyday experience with children "that force you," he says, "to the bone to simplify certain theological concepts, getting to the core of the Gospel message, which is simply explained if it is immediately welcoming. "
But it is not a book for children. "I appeal to young adults to tell my faith experience with that language that I use with my students." Pages that are read in one evening, but accompanied by a rigorous bibliography of texts ranging from religion to children to the works of theologians. Then it does not take into deception that "Jesus", which seems to come out from the mouth of Dario For and the verses of his "Mistero Buffo". The first work lies not contain any trace of satire against the Church
And so one can not help but smile when, during the show, to the tune of a jingle bathing Andrea, imitating a bit 'movements of the cockpit of the duo Cochi and Renato, singing "Jesus the most beautiful you are, not 're like the Smurfs, and Cinderella and I like more .... " A refrain from a verse and the other, which give the testimony of Christ's existence by non-Christian historians.
The show - which sees Giachi Piaggesi accompanied by Matthew (guitar) and Julius Perizzolo (drums) - went to Foggia in December, during the book fair, in Tring, always in the province of Foggia, and Pacengo, in the parish of Bishop Ezio Falavegna. Waiting for La Scala's most prestigious stages ...
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