LANGUAGE: Italian
DURATION: 75 minutes
TICKET: €13 full price, €11 reduced
The future ruling class does not know that the world it will govern is on the brink of collapse. At school, it is learning grammar, English, and probably the names of cities that may no longer exist in the future.
It travels by plane from an early age and does not know wired telephones.
Caterina Marino interviewed children between 6 and 13 years old over the course of a year: the text of the performance comes from these encounters.
Their words are brought on stage without filters, exactly as they were spoken, by two actors and two actresses.
The effect is immediate: small voices pass through adult bodies.
Topics include ecology, money, fear of the future, gender differences, and racism, expressed with striking clarity, between irony, imagination, and disorientation.
The stage evokes a large international assembly, modeled on a Climate Conference or the United Nations: the audience is directly confronted with the adult world to which these words are addressed.
At its core lies generational responsibility and the possibility of becoming political subjects again, beyond individualism, with a gaze that is not accusatory but open to change.
A performance as an act of love toward the future and toward those who, one day, will ask what has been done to change things.
IN SHORT
Children were asked about issues concerning the present and the future that awaits them. Their words are embodied by two actors and two actresses in a large assembly.
Between irony and disorientation, a direct confrontation between generations on responsibility and the possibility of change.
Dramaturgy and direction Caterina Marino
With Federico Brugnone, Sara Mafodda, Caterina Marino, Daniele Paoloni
Costumes Accademia Italiana
Assistant director Marco Fasciana
Press office Antonella Mucciaccio
Production Cranpi, 369gradi, La Corte Ospitale
With the support of MiC – Ministry of Culture
Production residencies Carrozzerie | n.o.t, Humus artistə nel territorio / IAC Centro Arti Integrate, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
With the support of ATCL – Multidisciplinary Circuit of the Lazio Region
Caterina Marino graduated as an actor in 2014 from the Alessandra Galante Garrone Theatre School in Bologna, further training with several masters. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked in major theatre productions, including Le mille e una notte and Odissea, collaborating with directors such as Andrea Baracco and Vincenzo Manna. In the same period she performed in productions by Teatro di Roma, working with Riccardo Caporossi and ArteStudio. In 2017 she graduated in Performing Arts and Sciences in Rome with a thesis on Gerardo Guerrieri.
In 2018 she co-founded the company Binario1310, reaching the finals of the Premio Scenario Infanzia. The show Come quando è primavera premiered in 2019 and toured until 2023. In the same year she translated and performed Pramkicker by Sadie Hasler, staged from 2019 onwards.
In 2021 she received a Special Mention at the Premio Scenario with Still Alive, her first full authored work, which premiered in 2022 and received national recognition. In 2022 she also toured nationally with La classe, directed by Giuseppe Marini.
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Audience Notice
The performance includes the use of flashing or stroboscopic lights.
