Escalescion
“A.A.A. Finely renovated stairs for rent. Wide view of the square, flowered window, panoramic telephone and 50s atmosphere. Tenants wanted, model of excellent neighbors”. Two men who are similar in every way rent the same stairwells at the same time and live happily and in unison their new life, but the unexpected is lurking and […]
Macbett (experiment)
We, cranks operated by the unknown reality that punishes the vanquished and rewards the victors before punishing them too, we are the illustrious representatives of the defeated, of the presumptuous and dejected, of the disillusioned hopeful, of the vain in the mirror, of the “neverbeatenenough”, of the useless charlatans, of the idiots. We have dared […]
E SOIFNI – Fiori di zolfo
Childhood memories are largely made up of smells: bread and milk, chocolate, earth, water, mud, moss, wax, resin and wood, asphalt… We are intrigued by the idea of making those who don’t know them smell the acrid smells of carbide and sulfur and of trying to tell the “forbidden games” of which, for entire generations […]
Topo Federico racconta
Federico is a dreamer mouse, while the others work he collects words with which he creates stories. In his stories a fantastic world is created in which great friends live, identical as children but who grow up to become very different. Federico the Mouse, telling stories, reminds us of the importance of art, friendship, the […]
Il sole dei briganti
I have been researching and collecting materials on brigandage for years and I could continue for years without finishing, given the enormous amount of documentation on these figures. I chose to deal with the three borders between Basilicata, Campania and Puglia, because they represented for the bandits a triangle of easy crossing for ambushes, escapes […]
Arcipelaghi
The show is based on the novel Gli arcipelago by Maria Giacobbe. Giosuè, un ragazzino di dodici anni, viene ucciso perché ha visto troppo; nessuno sa chi è stato. Tre mesi dopo nella notte di S. Antonio “la notte dei fuochi”, un uomo viene freddato con un colpo di pistola. La mattina successiva Oreste, anche […]
Los Locos del calvario
Confused, scared, he tries to answer questions too big for him, and it is precisely when the effort becomes almost ridiculous that memories emerge and take us on his journey. We set off, close to him, to meet his “madmen of God”… Los locos del Calvario, the street kids of Managua who every day, with […]
Nati in casa
You were born at home, once upon a time. In the villages there was a woman who made women give birth. The “comare”, they called her, was the midwife, the obstetrician in short. Born at home tells the story of a woman who was a midwife in a provincial town in a still rural north-east […]
Il ghiro, il cappellaio, la lepre marzolina … e per Alice non c’è posto
The vertical path in the Heels A world upside down, perpendicular and not parallel to ours, where reality and fiction meet and melt into each other. Another world that is consumed vertically on walls that are not easy to tackle, where the force of gravity loses its power and the lightness of being clashes with […]
Cyrano
Cyrano is in love with his cousin Roxane. But she is in love with Cristiano, a handsome young man who loves her back. Cyrano is ugly and he knows it, because his nose is too long. Cristiano is handsome but he can’t speak. Roxane loves to hear good speech. Cyrano knows how to speak, a […]
Storie senza fissa dimora
It is the story of the chatterbox Queen, the Queen of Tani, a beautiful woman but….so, so “chatty”, “that no one could silence” and of a very clever young man who succeeded in the very difficult task. The story is told by three “homeless people” very nice and clumsy who improvise as actresses and narrators […]
Una via Crucis
The theater seems to be the only way left to listen to old stories and repeat what the rest of the world denies and erases. The last way. So uncomfortable, so unpopular, so tiring. It speaks to few, it does not break through any screen, it does not accept commercial breaks, it cannot be shouted, […]