Category: Storytelling
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4 stars – New traditional tale A couple of twins has been separated at birth. Renzo is Italian and Mi Ho is Taiwanese (their mother, the queen, was polyamorous). A green bird secretly suggests to each of them to go to Monterotondo, but their meeting unleashes an uncontrollable series of events…
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4 stars – energetic downfall Charly is fine. She loves her job and she’s good at doing it. She wakes up late and waits for her customers’ calls. A power cut makes her day different from all the others. But she is fine.
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4 stars – peace & fun Between Israelis and Palestinians there seems to stand a tall being, the ‘Giraffe of Peace’. Noam Shuster Eliassi was raised in the Oasis of Peace, a mixed space for voluntary coexistence for the two nations, and does political stand-up comedy in the name of peace.
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4 stars – hilarious journey In order to conquer his beloved, Leif suggests a romantic trip to Disneyland. Unfortunately, things don’t quite develop the way Leif had programmed.
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3 stars – wellbeing communication made fun Funny hats, music, a piano and a guitar. An invitation to take part for the aim of wellbeing.
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4 stars – brilliant, fun and inspiring Wendy is a mother in a lineage of Wendys, each falling in love with her own Peter Pan. This Wendy is a script writer going through an artistic crisis, subdued to the requests of her Hollywood agent – until she rediscovers her Happy Thought.
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4 Stars – Dream-like, politic storytelling If you were to dress up like the most meaningful dream you dreamed in the last year, what would you wear? Sole is a cricket and Baleno a pig. In a beautifully poetic atmosphere, the tragic story of two anarchists who stood against TAV* is first evoked, then thoroughly…
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4 stars – urgent storytelling MDLSX is a complex construction, a mix of techniques, stories, and themes. Silvia Calderoni performs a long monologue, which seems largely autobiographical, about gender and intersexuality. She dialogues with videos and music, holding a phone camera in front of herself, to which she speaks her lines.
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5 stars – praise of the doomed body What happens when the body wants to dance itself free and cannot be stopped? Possibly, as the aftermath of a natural disaster, a famine or a pandemic. Some said it’s the devil’s work, other said it’s a neurological problem. There might be a higher stake.
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3 stars – an entertaining experiment It has to be clear: this is an experiment, or a historical reconstruction of an event out of time. Under such premises, Alessandro Burbank starts his solo show and establishes a peculiar relationship with the audience, who has decisional power on the development of action on stage.
