CAGLIARI. With its “Teatridimare” it is docked in various ports of the Mediterranean and beyond. The world of culture is in mourning for the death of Francesco Origo. The director, navigator-actor, skipper, captain of a sailing boat with his company of artists on board died at the age of 62 and who brought applauded shows to numerous docks transformed into stages. Genoese by birth, Sardinian and Cagliari by adoption, the founder of the Càjka Company has crossed the entire scene of the Italian theater with over forty years of career as an actor, teacher, director and artistic director.
Alongside him, the most important names of the Italian cultural and theatrical scene, directors, actors, writers: from Carlo Cecchi to Cesare Garboli, from Elsa Morante to Benedetta Buccellato, from Mariangela Melato to Maurizio Crozza, from Massimo Lopez to Valerio Binasco. In love with Sardinia from an early age, after a long rise of successes and tours throughout Italy, Origo moved to Cagliari in 1996, where he began a new career as a director and acting teacher at the “Il Crogiuolo” Theater Intervention Center, directed by Mario Faticoni. Also in Cagliari, in February 1999 he founded, together with the actor Massimo Zordan, the cultural association Compagnia Càjka, a research, training and production center for theater and dance.
After just two years it is the turn of the theatrical navigation project “Teatridimare”, a unique artistic experience, which in 21 editions will sail for more than 33,000 miles of sea, with shows in the ports and docks of Sardinia, Corsica, Tuscany , Lazio, Liguria, Calabria, but also beyond, in Norway and Greece. Numerous messages of condolence on Facebook. Among these: «I would like to wake up and discover that it is not true», writes the actress Cristina Maccioni; “How will it be done? Your absence is more than a loss, I think how much you could still give to those who would have met you and how much luck I have had so far. Brother, Master of Theater and Sea », is the comment of the actress Giovanna Gravina. (HANDLE).