concept and text Circolo Bergman
original sound and music Marcello Gori
space and light design Sarah Chiarcos
direction Paolo Giorgio
on stage Sarah Ātman
coproduction Casa Degli Alfieri and Pergine Spettacolo Aperto 

The heroic enterprise of our adolescence begins with a kick at a wooden door and stairs made of stone covered with the plaster fallen from the ceilings. In this lost territory of adolescence, in the age between eleven and fifteen years old, there was the habit of sneaking into old abandoned buildings, chasing traces of an unknown past in search of new adventures.
Palazzo Crivelli is a space that belongs to the community, but from which the community is excluded. From the windows overlooking via Maier, it listens and observes the town. Pergine has a history of labour, from the rise and fall of the textile industry to the epic journey of the former psychiatric hospital, the engine of the entire life of the valley. The voices, the sounds, the torments and the victories, the tragedies and the wonders experienced generation after generation, are filtered in the rooms of this palace, diffused into its walls. Words and ghosts are still present to tell us something about what we are today.
As children in abandoned houses, Circolo Bergman leads a group of spectators into the discovery of a secret space. A journey through multiple Wunderkammers that open one after the other between floors and walls decorated, traditional stoves and signs of a daily life, consumed day after day until silence breaks in.
The noble history of the Crivelli family and that of Pergine merge together while the ghosts emerge in sound, lights, figures, to discover once again the foundations of a community.
Circolo Bergman continues to work on the memory of the territory of Pergine, after the success of Macinante, at the Dal Sasso wool mill, and Via S. Pietro 4, in the former Psychiatric Hospital. 

A special thanks to Giuliana Campestrin and the Historical Archives of Pergine.  

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