A twenty-five year journey, where you return from one war and leave for another, you fall in love and fight, you play, you laugh and make love: in short, you become adults, you suffer from jealousy and loneliness, you bury your loved ones and a beautiful and beloved city becomes a pile of rubble. Efisio and Antioco Mereu are twins, two twins that could not be more twins. And yet they are very different, in their thoughts and destinies: the first is indifferent to the approaching fascism, the second is an anarchist and anti-fascist at heart and when the war breaks out he is sent to the worst front there is, Russia. Efisio, on the other hand, ends up in the Navy, safe on the Cagliari seafront. Until ’43, when American bombers reduce a good part of the city to dust.
Cielo nero is a stage of research carried out since 2005 by Pierpaolo Piludu and Cada Die Teatro, in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and the Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico della Sardegna, on the bombings of Cagliari in 1943. A video archive was created with the stories of 130 witnesses, a documentary produced by the regional headquarters of RAI and a theatrical performance with 20 students from the La Vetreria School of Performing Arts which is performed every year on the anniversaries of the bombings.
