with Antonietta Amoroso, Oksana Casolari, Valentina Escorza, Francesca Figini, Antonia Massimini, Valeria Mediani, Solange Miglietta, Beatrice Pizzardo, Antonio Santangelo, Salvatore Sofia
Music by : Pino Dieni e Igino L. Caselgrandi
Director: Stefano Tè
Text by: Claudio Secchi e Pino Dieni
Costumes Designer: Giada Conte
Costumes Production: Monteré Modena
External collaborator: Mario Barzaghi
Techical Direction: Jacopo Bassoli
Assistant Marcello Di Dio e Antonio Santangelo
The show is a sharp and colorful allegory about our bad habits.
It involves music, masks, stilts, fire, with the aim to gather, meet, entertain and make people think. Seven woman and a Priest are leading the last of Heretics to an Inquisition final stage; his auto da fè (act of faith), the public confession of his guilt, turns rather into a deep and ironic j'accuse of our contemporary time.
This play has its roots in folk's tradition, expecially those present in Italy and in the mediterranean area, united by a common importance given to streets or city squares as sources of a special and unique emotion; it is a funny and particular way to let citizens and drama meet in the places they live their ordinary life.
The subject of the entire play is Heresy. Heretic is a “diverse”, someone who, for a reason or another, face and crash with uniformity of society and its rules which are limited and limitative for the one who don't share the same “cultural opinion”
Malaparata focus attention on this way to point a finger at “the other”, increasing in this way the causes of his separation and alienation, catching him in easy , recognizable, features and characteristics ( even if distorted , alas!) that gradually moves away the hope of a real knowledge of the man and of a relative exchange.
However, who judge and condamn is not immune from guilts and this fact is evident in the play where the ones who hardly sentence are personifications of the seven deadly sins of mankind.
A play that, moving from an accidental vicissitude, aims to expand meditation about globality of some human attitudes.