director Giorgio Flamini
assistant director, actors, extras, audio/video technicians convicts of the Casa di Reclusione di Maiano in Spoleto
script and texts by convicts of the Casa di Reclusione di Maiano in Spoleto
adaptation and supervision Roberta Galassi and Giorgio Flamini
other texts from Colpo alla Nuca by Sergio Lenci
from Il teatro ed il suo doppio by Antonin Artaud
scenery Simone Bacci, Maria Paola Buono, Michele Zualdi
scenery production student convicts in the Stagecraft Laboratory of the Art Institute, prison sector, IIS Sansi Leonardi Volta
music and video production convicts of the Casa di Reclusione di Maiano in Spoleto
show produced by the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Sansi Leonardi Volta, headmaster Roberta Galassi and the Casa di Reclusione di Maiano in Spoleto, director Luca Sardella, commander Marco Piersigilli
characters and interpreters
student convicts
with the participation of
Pietro Biondi architect
Mauro Bronchi criminal and journalist
Anna Leonardi racketeer’s mother
Diletta Masetti the Justice
Anna Von Gablenz journalist from Berlin
Virginia Virilli journalist from NYC
photos are by Kim Mariani from the show Pathetic Affectivity Affective Captivity
this theatrical production permitted thanks to Roberta Galassi, Marco Piersigilli, Luca Sardella
30 years of crime in 8 minutes and then, on stage, the criminals decide not to break the law any longer. No more magistrates, lawyers; run down prisons are transformed into cinemas and residences: two cells house
the survivors always in trouble. Why does the Justice keep speaking that strange meaningless language?
We meet under the Tower, prison guard barracks, darkness is surrounding the prison, city noises (horns, sirens and voices, as through an open window above a busy street)… it is May 2nd, 1980…there are some blueprints, the plans for the jail,…men’s cries… plastic bands so tight our wrists have turned purple…
"Dear Giulia", the only woman of the Commando "I trust you and your children are well and that the situation will improve and become complete freedom. Sincerely".
crimes…scenes of an extortion… of an armed robbery, a murder…we pass through corridors transformed into a gallery of criminal memories… crimes animate the walls… from the gates, motionless men look at us, show their hands, plea for mercy…we brush past the legs of others, they are sitting on high stools…their backs naked and curved in the neon light… eyes lowered… they raise their heads slightly, repeating a litany over and over … "it wasn’t me, it wasn’t me … I don’t know anything… I’m not talking", someone cries, someone swears … men carry other men, get into and out of a folding bed constantly loaded and unloaded with bodies…. bundles and bundles of folders… paper, paper, paper… a tall woman appears… beautiful, luminous… like a Madonna … the years go by 2001,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14… 15 16 17 18… the TV news and talk shows speak about it a lot at the beginning of July 2019, the Ministry of Justice issues public notices for the reutilization of jails as schools, performance centers or old people’s homes… it’s 2025… in the News there are some prisoners’ children … to be continued…
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