Performative work
- spettacolo teatrale
Director
Dramatist
Monica Centanni
Stage sounds
Roberto Tarasco
Production
CRT Artificio / Milano
Year
Duration
90m
Language
Italiano
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Portopalo is a border town on the extreme tip of Sicily, a small town that experiences the reality of landings and the problem of reception every day, in which a small community of fishermen and farmers is forced to contend with ambiguous legislation, to dealing with restrictive rules that are not part of the traditional code of seafarers. Portopalo is the scenario on which the ancient words of Aeschylus and the stories of migrants of our time acquire a new vitality. The community of Portopalo was directly involved in the construction of the text of the theatrical story, at the forefront of welcoming those who arrive deprived of everything to ask for help and asylum - from distant episodes of hospitable and generous reception by the first foreigners in the 1980s, to the tragic experience of the Christmas 1996 shipwreck, which cost the lives of 386 migrants, up to the urgent problem of dealing with a daily emergency, humanly and socially urgen. The text of the theatrical story is built by weaving the main thread of the plot of Supplici with other fragments of Aeschylean tragedies and with stories taken from the testimonies of migrants: it is evident how the theme of immigration and reception implies a reflection on the very foundations of our civil cohabitation.