Più veloce di un raglio
freely adapted from the story “The Plasterer’s Donkey” by Luigi Capuana. Once upon a time there was a plasterer who had many donkeys, skinny, ugly and dirty; but among all these donkeys he had one that was the ugliest of all. He was skinny, crooked, mangy, with a flayed tail, his legs so ruined that […]
Canzoniere Orientale
A journey made up of many small stories, created starting from some of the most fascinating Persian tales of the Sufi tradition that intertwine with the stories of the Hasidic tradition (Central-Eastern European Judaism). To recreate the magic of the “One Thousand and One Nights”. Reference text: Sufi Tales (RED Edizioni), by Gialàl ad-Din Rumi. […]
Dio è nato donna. Misteri per caso
Is God a man with a beard? No. Did Atlantis really exist? Yes. Did Cristoforo Colombo discover America? No. Did the Sumerians have anything to do with aliens? Maybe. And 2012? It’s already here… Between myths, archaeological curiosities and secret symbols, in the company of Syusy, a not-by-chance tourist who for twenty years has been […]
Alberi e sogni
We started with the story of Elzéard Bouffier, “The man who planted trees” who managed to transform a desert of rocks and wind into an immense forest. This story is intertwined with those of other women and men who have dedicated their lives to the realization of a dream, even when common sense, reason and […]
Coppia aperta, quasi spalancata
Centuries of repression and machismo do not disappear at the first cough. We must also have the courage to admit that the attempt at an open couple, of “democratic horns,” has not succeeded and has almost always foundered in hypocrisy. “It must be said that the open couple has its disadvantages. For it to work, […]
In capo al mondo. Viaggio con Walter Bonatti
What is a hero? Who leads an exemplary life and what life is more exemplary than Bonatti’s? Behind Walter Bonatti there are not only the legendary mountaineering feats, nor the famous explorations conducted for Epoca, behind Bonatti there is a philosophy of life. There is the will to reach the goal without compromises, in a […]
Riondino accompagna Vergassola ad incontrare Flaubert
Faced with the return of illiteracy that many say afflicts Italy, the Ministry of Culture launches a campaign, entrusted to activists organized in the threatening Cultural Brigades, with the aim of raising the average level of cabaret actors. A comedian chosen at random among the most ignorant will be tortured on stage in the form […]
Storie di uomini. Un anno sull’altipiano
On the Altipiano, men fought who often died in vain, at the whim of an incompetent, “crazy” or cognac-drunk commander, paying with their lives the price of irresponsible political and military choices; but also men who gave their lives with courage in the belief that superior values and ideals exist. Soldiers who did not give […]
Femminile singolare – Vedi alla voce poetessa
Lella Costa gives voice to the poetesses of the 20th century, in a journey that meets the words of women who lived or were rediscovered in the past century and who made the History of Female Poetry, from Emily Dickinson to Amelia Rosselli from Sylvia Plath to Kate Clancy. Stories of women, civil commitment of […]
Attenti a quei due
Can a sociology and psychology treatise become a comedy show? The lecture by Prof. Assianoris is a tasty pretext to show a picturesque anthology of grotesque situations that explore vices and defects of the human soul, such as venality, insecurity, selfishness, pettiness. Negative human characteristics, but much more fertile than the positive ones, when you […]
Di mare in mare
Recipes for not burning garlic during storms. Born from the need of both collectives to confront and question one of the themes dearest to them, the journey, by sea but not only, understood as a metaphor of human existence and as a tool for investigating our time, this new narrative-musical-gastronomic project brings together the perfect […]
Gufo Rosmarino
Rosmarino is the little owl that we would all like as a friend, the brave little brother who manages to transform every difficulty into a formidable opportunity for adventure. Rosmarino has the bold wisdom of the little ones in the world of adults, he sees things with the eyes of simplicity and for this reason […]