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The Interculturale Theatre Storytelling Laboratory
Presents
the gift of diversity
Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Festival
II Edition - Rome, May 8-24 2008
The idea
Interculture means confront, exchange and communication among diverse cultures, towards an opened view and a larger dialogue between differences, against each discrimination. However, somehow, privileging interest to origins and traditions of the person that we meet - even if he is rich and amazing - and that normally we call a stranger, we may risk to forget his true particularity, maybe the most important thing: his story and not his country's one, his experience and not his people's one, his emotions and feelings, not his race's one. So, we can make the mistake to build a weak and false image, a masquerade, where people are just playing roles: the African, the Chinese, the Arabian and so on. Words are important and, when concepts linked to them have a fundamental value in our life, contradictions are not possible. We are different or equal? We can't be both, this is our provocation. If you think we are all unique, then, maybe, you could agree with the idea behind this project: the most powerful, significant and revolutionary way to have an intercultural point of view, in other words, to underline the importance of differences and richness inside our individuality, is to show the diversity of people that often think themselves as equal (not celebrating the equality of strangers...), to tell how much they are interesting to listen when they are speaking of themselves and how all become wonderful if they are so proud to mix each others.
II Edition
In May 2008 we’ll present the second edition of this festival. The last year, the first one was thought to put the bases and this time we whish to show our idea of interculture. Local or foreign artists, considering their diversity as a gift, will tell their story with their personal language or dialect. Because Italy and all countries in the world are wonderfully multicultural places even without immigrants, which are just other colours to improve the rainbow…
Almost seventy artists and companies, since North to South, sent us their proposals, convincing us that our point of view is not so crazy. After a hard selection will present nine shows from all Italy. The aim is to create a space where, thanks to Theatre Storytelling, interculture will become just culture, while actors and public will agree that diversity is the first value to celebrate.
The participants are, in order of appearance:
May 8, 9.00 p.m.: “Scantu[1]”, by and with Adele Tirante, “Cosa sono le nuvole” and “Viaggio inverso”
May 9, 9.00 p.m.: "Francesco Pileggi, the true story of a man of honour[2]",
by and with Andrea Chianelli
May 10, 9.00 p.m.: “Calafrica[3]”, by and with Manuela Valenti
May 15, 9.00 p.m.: “Refugees”, by and with “Rataplab”
May 16, 9.00 p.m.: “Zagara”, by and with Maria Cristina Sarò
May 17, 9.00 p.m.: “It’s spring”, by and with Antonio Carletti
May 22, 9.00 p.m.: “Horrible heritage on the lake[4]”,
by and with “The differents, almost equal but different”
May 23, 9.00 p.m.: “The town of Punt”, by and with Elisa Menchicchi
May 24, 9.00 p.m. : “The true story of Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, orator of the human race”,
by and with Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher and Cecilia Moreschi
The festival will be at the Studio Uno Theatre (www.studiounoteatro.it), in Rome,
Via Carlo della Rocca, 6.
The Laboratory:
The Intercultural theatre storytelling laboratory is directed by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher (www.alessandroghebreigziabiher.it), with the precious collaboration of Cecilia Moreschi.
Information:
Luisa Moreschi
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Web: www.narrazioneinterculturale.org
