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Out of the shadow-play of the convicts of Spleto

by Duncan on dic.02, 2009, under human resistance , video

On June 23 the house of detention of Spoleto was staged the play "out of the shadows" which saw the partepicazione and active contribution of thirty convicts impediments. I now place with written commentary by cast and heart a very special person:

"The play, like any creative and artistic work is a wonderful form of therapy for channeling repressed emotions or feelings or dificult to express: is a therapy that works well with children and adults, healthy or sick. The people locked inside a cell can now free themselves with a theatrical work, with practice and until the show. A barbaric decision not to allow these emotions to give the detainees that they love people, who although outside, free, live in prison with them. Because when you love, love at any cost, in all conditions and are in harmony with each other. The opening scene is symbolic, there are two cells in a ... Actors take the wine to be something hidden, the other is placed a sheet to mo 'loop on the bars of the window as a prelude to a suicide note .. In prison is so .. there are those who decide to end and perhaps in the cell next to nobody will notice .. Then alternate scenes, there are moments of their lives .. made a meal together, a conversation between an inmate and a mayor (our Caramel), some very good where there are four actors that show back to the audience and in front of them women, companions, those who are outside wait, maybe to raise their children here and the excitement grows, becomes painful .. there are feelings in the field, there is love, the real distance lovers forever, until death, or resentment, anger toward the man convicted. Alternate musical moments, you forget to attend a job done and done in a gray prison, you seem to be in a normal theater .. normal but there is nothing there .. nothing really .. read texts of letters written by detainees, such as Ivano Rapisarda, or where there are dialogues discussing the futility of imprisonment or of their being Shadow Men, then crumbling. Teacher who will talk about the lesson in there .. I watch them play, I do not see in their blood that spilled, the lives that have taken .. I see in them a great desire to be reborn in their eyes there is the need to continue to live to be different. They need to scream to the world that no longer murder. But they need someone to give him voice ... .. "

Even these words can make you understand the value and beauty of the show. And I assure you that is a show that will not go unscathed through you. We will touch the soul deeply. It 's a journey of about an hour and a half in which plan to plan entered into another world, the world of the Shadow. And there entered as a task at school, with text or rhetorical rindandanti .. or inmates who are the "prisoners". But you see life, meat, irony, tears, blood vividly staged .. with a freshness, a directness and vitality rare. Understand that they are not just acting. Often forget to have a party, and feel vibrate their drama, their thirst and their emotions.

The ability to alternate times and different languages is impressive. And then you'll see and hear musical moments, dialogues, monologues. At first you feel a little bad, improves with each passing minute. Consider also that it was recorded with a particularly sophisticated, because you will never see a zoom.

This video is unique for a number of aspects. One principal, who is not released from prison almost anything. It is already difficult to create the events in prison. Then it is even more difficult in some way maintained and recorded. Even more difficult then have them come out. So the opportunity to see a show like this is really a great opportunity, not to be missed. Another thing, whether "structural" concerns the "type" of show business. Theater in prison if they are made over time, and if they do. But often the prisoner "is the prisoner." Actor is often a performance written and directed by others, outdoor writers and directors who are in prison and "represent" the prison, but with their linguaggiio. Other times it is limited to stage "the classics." Often the prisoner is somehow passive in relation to the creative phase and management of the show. HERE AND 'something else entirely. Sure, there are collaborations "external", but the show is' FRUIT OF A GROUP OF CREATION OF SPOLETO lifers. In the way of structure, representation, and content EC 'Their lives, their stories, their soul .. Staging FROM THEM, THEIR WAY WITH THEIR TIME. For example, with regard to content, there is also the track "dialogue between the psychologist and a prison inmate, or the song dedicated Ivano Rapisarda, read by a group of people in turn. Qeusto also makes the show unique. A harsh but beautiful form of self-consciousness raised to emergence. A moment of existence in the world and the world, pulled out his hair lifted in the air like Baron Munchausen famous in history, with so much pain that you can cut it into slices .. but with a result that remains and does not pass.