LANGUAGE: Italian
DURATION: tbc
TICKET: €13 full, €10 reduced
At the end of the show, an aperitif will be offered by Proposta Vini to the audience.
PREVIEW SHOW
“Tell her it’s a game. Tell her it’s serious. But don’t scare her. Don’t tell her they’re going to kill her.”
In 2009 Caryl Churchill wrote a short composition in seven parts: seven speeches by adults addressed to as many girls throughout history, from Nazi persecutions to the most current bombings on Gaza. A poetic and disconcerting text, a whisper and a scream, which focuses on childhood as a scapegoat, innocent witness or pretext for adults’ decisions.
IN A NUTSHELL
Seven dialogues cross time: in each, an adult speaks to a little girl. The eras change, but the gaze remains the same — that of childhood, a fragile target and mirror of the wills of others.
From Caryl Churchill
translation by Stefano Casi
a show by Andrea Adriatico
Production Theatres of Life
With the support of the Municipality of Bologna, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Ministry of Culture
Andrea Adriatico, founder of Teatri di Vita, is a theatre, film director, and an architect. His works explore the urges of contemporary times, confronting politics (as inXYZ. Light Dialogues Between Useless Generations), genres (as in eve) and conflicts (as in The bitterness of Koltès).
Caryl Churchill, born in London in 1938, made her debut in the early 1960s as an author of polemically anti-bourgeois radio plays and is today considered the most important living English author. Her first comedy Owners was produced in 1972 by the Royal Court Theatre. Among her most significant works, always bearing themes such as feminism and sexual politics, the abuse of power, colonialism and war: Cloud nine, Top girls, A mouthful of birds, The Striker, Mad forest, A number, Far away.
