CENTRO ATTIVITA' TURISTICA GRASSINA
HISTORICAL COMMEMORATION OF GOOD FRIDAY
 
Four centuries of tradition, seventy years of suggestive show
 
The 500 figures in custom that compose the historical parade of the manifestation give more life to one of the moments represented in the evening.
     
   
  Last supper  
Exiles figures, powerful soldiers and centurions, roman women, the picture of the robbers, the majestic horses makes the frame to a Christ who waves and suffers in the ninety minutes of distance of the Way Crucis.
     
   
  Crucifixion  
Way Crucis. The arrival in proximity of the Calvary is the prelude to the fusion of the two events before separated (parade and scenes), that the coordination of a tested direction every year succeeds to integrate with ability and suggestion. The 100 figures that in the evening and in the lights of the marvellous grassinese hill shadows and actors move like on the gained natural stage between small streets, walls, ginestre and olive trees, represent a landscape and one scenic representation appreciated
     
   
  Roman soldiers  
and more times long applauded from men and women protagonists of the Italian show;
     
   
  Giuda  
the positive appraisals expressed from the big master Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Albertazzi, Carla Fracci and from the director Beppe Menegatti are remembered on purpose. Only some theatre sagacities on a natural scene create that evocative harmony of colors, sounds and lights that a lot hit the spectator who, for first time participates to the representation, but that they never to astonish them. the converses and the text is freely taken from Matteo's, Luca's and Giovanni's Gospels. Musics by Dvorak, Orff, Haendel, Grieg, Bach, Wagner, Greens, Stravinskij, Beethoven, Faure, Malher, Albinoni.