Cuore nero
A cry against all forms of exploitation and abuse of childhood. Black Heart tells the story of Lazaro, an orphan of his parents, kidnapped and taken to a military camp where he learned to hold a rifle in his hand and other light weapons manufactured in Italy, France, Great Britain, to aim and shoot, to […]
31^ SAGRA DEL VINO: Cagliari 1943: la guerra dentro casa
LA VETRERIA SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS Cagliari 1943: the war inside the house In 2006, Cada Die Teatro, within the La Vetreria school of performing arts, proposed a theater course, led by Pierpaolo Piludu, entitled “Cagliari 1943. The war inside the house”. About twenty adults signed up and decided to stage a work centered on […]
31^ SAGRA DEL VINO: Giorni rubati D10, D11
The starting point in the creation of this work was the terrible accident suffered by a young worker friend of ours: It was one of those warm autumns that struggle to give way to winter. It was Tuesday and I was already thinking about what I would do on Sunday. That Sunday never came and […]
Operapè
A beekeeper walks among the devastated hives of his apiary in his best clothes, with a thick rope in his hands and calling on death. She actually arrives at the appointment. She is wearing a wedding dress, a black hat with a veil and an electric guitar slung over her shoulder. From the meeting comes […]
ITIS Galileo
Being brilliant, in difficult circumstances, can be a problem, especially for others. This is the starting point of the curious in-depth work that Marco Paolini and Francesco Niccolini have dedicated to the figure of Galileo. The father of modern science, in fact, appears to contemporaries as a great popularizer of his studies, but above all […]
Strada Carrara
Titino Carrara takes us into his childhood as a wanderer, into the memory of one of the last still active artistic families in our country: the Carraras. It is the story of a nomadic and gypsy existence, far from the bourgeois patterns to which our society has tended from the post-war period to the present […]
Terra della mia anima
After Strada Carrara, the story of a child born to nomadic actors, Titino Carrara is back on stage, under the direction of Laura Curino, to tell another true-life story with an adventurous flavour: the romantic and moving story of Beniamino Rossini, a gentleman of the underworld: the dear friend that Massimo Carlotto had already transformed […]
In fila indiana
La fila indiana was born as a collection of short stories. Short stories written in a hurry – as Ascanio Celestini observes – after the burning of a nomad camp, after the shipwreck of a boat of emigrants fleeing or after the crazy and calculated declaration of some politician. Around these fragments the author has […]
Le magiche pietre
Stories about stones tiny and gigantic stones houses of janas and tombs of giants. Ancient stones of an ancient island shaped like a sandal in the middle of the Middle Sea. Sentinel-stones that guard, underground, treasures and terrible maghedde-flies, as big as crows. Stones as heavy as stones immobile for a thousand and a thousand […]
Lucio l’asino
“Ladies and gentlemen, please, do not mention Pinocchio in front of my friend!” That puppet in fact had important relatives and through magic, spells and blue fairies, he became a child. My friend, however, did not make it and remained a donkey; as a boy they called him Lucio and I continue to call him […]
La regina dei banditi
Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, is a legendary and controversial figure of contemporary India, although virtually unknown to European audiences. Her exemplary story of a warrior woman, forced against her will to take up arms, offers us the opportunity to address the theme of the power of rebellion and violence; and here above all, since […]
Books on stage: Chiedo scusa
Francesco Abate presents Chiedo Scusa Valter makes fun of the world because he has always been used to losing. He thinks the world should apologize to him. But when an illness leads him to an endless odyssey of pain, he feels that instead he is the one who should apologize to everyone. Because what he […]