Pedrigheddu (midnight fairy tale)
The story is always the same: wherever there are people who want to live quietly and peacefully, without hurting anyone, someone comes along who decides to exploit them mercilessly just because he is big, fat, rich and arrogant. Our fairy tale tells that not so long ago, in a small village in Sardinia surrounded by […]
Dei fatti e detti eroici di …
The journey of a band of poetic characters, who sail carefree towards the shores of maturity, gradually acquiring new faces, new clothes, new identities. And all this under the eyes of the public involved in this Journey, in this Metamorphosis, which is the metamorphosis of each individual and the story of all of us.
Avvicinamenti
Because whoever remains far from his Origin always seeks the time when he will be reunited there. The souls descended to earth from the Father’s House with a ladder, which was then withdrawn. Now from up there the souls are called back to their homeland. Some do not move from their place; how can one […]
Avvicinamenti
Because whoever remains far from his Origin always seeks the time when he will be reunited there. The souls descended to earth from the Father’s House with a ladder, which was then withdrawn. Now from up there the souls are called back to their homeland. Some do not move from their place; how can one […]
Pòsidos
Pósidos, “treasures”, is the result of research into the storytelling methods of the elderly narrators of Scano Montiferro, a town in central-western Sardinia. The stories of Pósidos speak of saints, of bandits, they take us back to a time, not too far away, when it was still common for the dead, sas animas, to appear […]
Scoop (Sapiens Woman)
SCOOP: SAPIENS WOMAN, is the title of Giobbe Covatta’s new show which wants to demonstrate to us, with its irreverent and desecrating language, the superiority of women over men. To validate this thesis the comedian ranges from history, to sociology, to medicine and from every point of view the male of the human race comes […]
Metaphorically Schiros
(recommended for an adult audience) A psychomagical ritual of return to the theater that becomes a passionate, exhilarating, moving life story. She wouldn’t want, Beatrice, to be there on stage. Yet something happens. A first memory, an anecdote, a laugh, and the story of an entire existence takes shape, step by step, without interruption, through […]
Antigone’s wedding
The word Myth comes from the Greek mythos which means story. Ascanio Celestini has always told stories. Even before he was born, because it was his father and before him his grandmother who told the story. Celestini collects stories and leaves a memory of them. He is capable of listening to many and distilling one […]
Pocket apocalypse
Without any warning, God appears in a supermarket on the outskirts of Rome and announces the end of the world. Through his fault and misfortune, there are very few people listening to him. To take him seriously there is only an amorphous and enervated young man, from then on fatally destined to be the prophet […]
My father and I
My Father and I comes when a musician who suddenly could no longer play in public and did not know when he would be able to do so again, dove pen in hand into his relationship with music. And he discovered that that pen was able to dig deep, very deep, where he never would […]
Ausmerzen. Lives unworthy of being lived
Many years ago, in the mid-1990s, while I was preparing a show about the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste, I learned about Aktion Te Vier, Action Ti Quattro, the first Nazi mass extermination: the elimination of seventy thousand Germans, including the mentally ill, the handicapped, the disabled and children with malformations. Why […]
Che ci faccio qui, in scena
The most extraordinary stories are those that pass us by without us realizing it. These are often so small that you have to go and look for them among the many things that are worthless. Domenico Iannacone’s neorealistic television story descends in the theater of narration and transforms its journalistic investigations into an intimate space […]