Navigating an intimate map composed of memories, family films and old photographs, director Paola Di Mitri reconstructs her family history, as she seeks an answer to a personal wound that overlaps with and is lost in the cartography of those who live in Taranto today. At the same time, she documents her return to her childhood city of innocence and parties. With the help of digital media on stage and following a field investigation accompanied by participatory actions, her personal story leaves room for the collective to redesign an emotional, sensorial, historical and urban geography of Taranto: a city rendered invisible and rewritten several times, thought to be the flywheel of the South, but which has always been nothing more than a workers’ battlefield; a space for workforce exploitation; an environmental disaster; a health emergency; and a symbol of a never-resolved situation of the South.
Credits
collaboration in dramaturgy, video creation Davide Crudetti
with the participation in video of Ida Palmisano
design and scene production by Paola Villani
original music by Gaspare Sammartano
lights Raffaella Vitiello
artistic collaboration Gabriele Paolocà
archive material from the Di Mitri family
Production Credits
production Cranpi
in co-production with A.M.A. Factory
with the contribution of MiC – Ministero della Cultura e di Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo as part of “ART~WAVES. Per la creatività, dall’idea alla scena”
in collaboration with ZaLab, Artinvita – Festival Internazionale degli Abruzzi
with the support of A.n.t. “Primavera Non Bussa”, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt), Teatro delle Forche, TRAC_Teatri di Residenza Artistica Contemporanea, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo, ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare della Regione Lazio for Spazio Rossellini
