Created as a performance-debate on the theme of legality, the show, entitled Dieci storie proprio così, made its debut in 2011 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. In 2017, in co-production with the Piccolo Teatro, it has been enhanced with a further narrative evolution in collaboration with the Università degli Studi di Milano, and in particular with the Course on Criminal Sociology organised by Nando dalla Chiesa, with which the Piccolo, through the “Observatory on the present”, has been carrying out an intense project of study and reflection on the theme of legality over the last three years.
Now, in 2019, eight years on and with many stories told, the theatrical form has evolved thanks to a narration characterised by the need to understand our near future, threatened by a disillusion which leaves even more space for criminal power, to the “practice” of corruption as a way of living. This is the reason for a new scenic form and a new title, Se dicessimo la verità , because the truth is much more insidious and uncomfortable that we are ready to admit. “Unfortunately, we can no longer speak only of “criminal infiltration” - explain the authors - but of “complicity with crime”, of “criminal practice” which we are becoming accustomed to, with distracted responsibility. The theatre neither provides lessons on how to live, nor does it offer easy solutions, it offers stimuli and an opportunity to understand and reflect, this is what we are trying to do, with conviction, thinking above all of the young. And we are addressing the young with a work which we are, at the same time, carrying out in schools throughout Italy, in order to ensure that the play is not only an isolated event, but a part of a journey to discover themes which are fundamental for our growth”.