Don Chisciotte – tragicommedia dell’arte
Giulio Pasquati, from Padua, stage name Pantalone, and Girolamo Salimbeni, from Florence, stage name Piombino, are two actors from the famous Comedians Gelosi company, active and applauded throughout Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries. They are alive by a miracle. They go on stage to tell how they escaped the gallows thanks to Don […]
Su connottu
The name Pasqua Selis Zau, known as Paskedda Zau, will mean nothing to some. Yet she is the commoner from Nuoro, mother, widow, of ten children, who on April 26, 1868 unleashed the popular uprising against the effects of the Legge delle Chiudende (the legislative provision issued in 1820 during the Savoy domination in Sardinia, […]
Mignolina
Once upon a time there was a mother who wasn’t a mother yet. Once upon a time there was a daughter who isn’t here yet. Mignolina is a little girl born between the petals of a flower, as tall as a finger, so small that she can hide inside a book. Together with her […]
Pesticidio
Bachisio is a simple man, strongly tied to his land. Together with his wife and son, like many other farmers, he is fighting against a large company, “Bentulare”, which has purchased enormous plots of land throughout Sardinia to cultivate them intensively. His son, Michelangelo, a graduate in agriculture, has been trying for years to combine […]
L’anima della terra vista dalle stelle
Dear guys, I would like to give you a greeting and a wish: that you may live in a better world, in what is called the global village, that it is truly global, where there are no more divisions of race, nationality, religion, where we are all truly brothers, all made of the same DNA, […]
All’alba dell’orrido di Elva
In rural environments, as in urban ones, the war event profoundly changes the relationships between men and women, between parents and children; in particular, the relationships of dependence are altered, redefining responsibilities and roles for the satisfaction of new needs. The young Alba, born in Elva, in the mountains of Val Maira, experiences the First […]
Dentro. Una storia vera, se volete
“What you have to prove in criminal trials like this is that what happened was absolutely real.” Interview with P.F., magistrate, 29 Oct 2019 «Unfortunately my father himself was a pervert and caused the hysteria of my brother (all the symptoms of which are identifications) and of one of my younger sisters». Sigmund Freud, […]
Odissea, un racconto Mediterraneo
“And if a God makes me shipwreck on the wine-dark sea, I will know how to bear it, because I have a patient soul in my chest: I have suffered so many misfortunes and endured so many among the waves and in war: let this one also be with them.” “Odyssey” by Homer from the […]
Kon-Tiki. Un viaggio in mare aperto
“Kon-Tiki” literally means “Sun God”. Kon-Tiki is the name of the raft built in the spring of 1947 by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who set out from the coast of Peru determined to reach the islands of French Polynesia by sea. Without oars, without an engine, using only the sea current, the trade winds […]
Storie Meticce
STORIE METICCE is a theatrical project of collected and lived stories, but also a journey within oneself. The show draws inspiration from the book by Francesca Caminoli “Perché non mi dai un bacio?”, focused on the story of Zelinda Roccia and the Los Quinchos Association, which has always been committed to caring for street children […]
Gola e altri pezzi brevi
In mezzo al mare, performed by Valerio Aprea, is the first monologue written by Mattia Torre, in 2003. In 2012 it was included by Dalai Editore in the homonymous collection of the main monologues that Torre wrote thereafter, expanded in 2019 by Mondadori and in audiobook by Emons Edizioni. Three of these, Colpa di un […]
Lear e il suo matto
Reading Shakespeare one comes across a reality made of contrasts: the high and the low, the lofty and the vulgar, the comic and the tragic. In perhaps his darkest tragedy, King Lear (written, among other things, precisely in the wake of a plague epidemic that had closed London theaters for a year), Shakespeare takes away […]