The second, touching, chapter from the "Shipwreck Trilogy" by Lina Prosa, "Lampedusa Snow" is the first-person story of a tragic odyssey and a civil and political reflection on an extremely topical issue and on the "shipwreck" seen as a metaphor for our modern day condition.
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Teatro Studio Melato
Lampedusa Snow is the second chapter in the Trilogia del naufragio by Lina Prosa. Inspired, like Lampedusa Beach (at the Teatro Grassi from 27 October to 4 November 2015), by news events, this pièce is another first person account of a tragic odyssey. A few years ago, due to the overcrowding in the immigrant reception centre, a number of immigrants were transferred to another centre located at an altitude of about 1800 metres. Mohamed is one of these immigrants: with a second-hand sweatshirt which is too big for him, the young African engineer, tired with the seemingly never-ending wait, decides to look for a way to reach the other side of the mountain. Thus begins a difficult climb during which he has a surreal encounter with a partisan who speaks to him of the revolution and sings him Bella ciao. Ever more breathless, Mohamed is engulfed by the cold and the snow until the last breath of life escapes him.
Duration: 60 minutes
Lampedusa Snow is the second chapter in the Trilogia del naufragio by Lina Prosa. Inspired, like Lampedusa Beach (at the Teatro Grassi from 27 October to 4 November 2015), by news events, this pièce is another first person account of a tragic odyssey. A few years ago, due to the overcrowding in the immigrant reception centre, a number of immigrants were transferred to another centre located at an altitude of about 1800 metres. Mohamed is one of these immigrants: with a second-hand sweatshirt which is too big for him, the young African engineer, tired with the seemingly never-ending wait, decides to look for a way to reach the other side of the mountain. Thus begins a difficult climb during which he has a surreal encounter with a partisan who speaks to him of the revolution and sings him Bella ciao. Ever more breathless, Mohamed is engulfed by the cold and the snow until the last breath of life escapes him.
Duration: 60 minutes
Credits
Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato
from 10 to 15 May 2016
Trilogia del Naufragio
Lampedusa Snow
Written and directed by Lina Prosa
Sets, lighting and video design by Paolo Calafiore
Costumes by Mela Dell'Erba
With Federico Lima Roque
A Teatro Biondo di Palermo production
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7.30 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday 8.30 p.m.; Sunday 4.00 p.m.
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