Curated by Arianna Porcelli Safonov actress, TV and live format host and author of stand-up comedy monologues
"Phobia means fear and "Fear" includes in its root the Indo-European -pat which means to beat, to knock down. We could say that fears bring us down and that we are beaten daily by phobia. This is not a good start for a comic monologue.
Laughter, however, is the language we need to get inside one of the most topical, challenging and least discussed topics of this moment in history: fear as a social rudder. We have gone from John Paul II's "Don't be afraid" to "Stay home" in the blink of an eye, from "Everything will be all right" to watchful waiting. Since the days of the boogeyman, every year a new subject has been produced that will have to make us do it under. When I was growing up one had to be afraid of Chernobyl, then there was Mad Cow,arsenic in the water, Jehovah's Witnesses.
Then came the Muslims and after 2001 if you saw an Arab who had made the unfortunate choice to buy an Invicta briefcase, you were able to walk away with a record to make Usain Bolt weep (world record 100 meters ed.). After that came the immigrants but now no one fucks them anymore because there is the virus, swine plague and, if that were not enough, a good war.
But we are not satisfied with the scary proposals from the media hype makers: we want more! And thanks in part to the climate of world terror, we devolve into personalized phobias that beat us with a thousand sticks: from snakes, to spiders, to airplanes, to venereal diseases, to bacteria of all kinds that might attack us at the coffee table, from the phobia of men and women with whom we might reproduce to the phobia of high water and much more of the scary and ridiculous that is justified with "Sorry, it's just that I have a phobia!"
Fiaba-phobia is a series of short stories that investigates the phobias that accompany our person, sometimes for a lifetime, sometimes more than relatives. Fairy-tale-phobia was written to laugh and to think. Hoping that there is no one who is afraid to laugh to think." Arianna Porcelli Safonov.
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