Lions Desenzano Host Hosts Theater Talk with Professor Paolo Puppa on Creativity

At the Desenzano hotel, an intermeeting of the Lions Desenzano Lago dedicated to theater took place. The guest speaker was Paolo Puppa, an actor, critic, writer, and professor of History of Theater at the Università di Venezia, who has organized conferences and theatrical presentations worldwide.

Introduced by the president of Lions Desenzano Host, Ladislao Piccoli, Professor Puppa performed several monologues on “Fathers on Stage,” complemented live by Marco Barbara’s saxophone.

An opportunity to delve into Puppa’s world, a universe rich in interpretative tension, where the almost hostile presence of children and daughters-in-law leads to long moments of bitter, profound reflection, culminating in a startling truth to be discovered, amidst a crescendo filled with dramatic action.

Creativity and Progress

The professor spoke about creativity, highlighting it as an important phase in the development of civilization. Those capable of producing something new in the artistic field are individuals with an abundant fantastic activity, Puppa said, aware that there is a genuine connection between imagination and creativity.

Perhaps the same creativity has marked all major discoveries: this is the foundation of progress, with the children surpassing what their parents achieved.

Today, there is an abyssal distance between fathers and sons compared to a century ago. In the 1800s, children shared the same habits and cultural and intellectual baggage as their fathers.

Today, however, changes in social structure have increased the gaps between generations. The last century saw a qualitative leap and technical advancements equivalent to the previous two millennia: such rapid development markedly ages each generation.

And so, following Puppa’s monologues, the overwhelming need for creativity emerges as a remedy against disorientation.