A train, a queue at the post office, a waiting room: sometimes stories begin like this, when someone is willing to listen.
Racconto Personale brings to the stage the voice of Mamadou, a young citizen of the Ivory Coast who “sets off on a journey without a valid reason”: there is no war in his country, he is not persecuted, he has food to eat every day. But he claims something simple and radical: the right to an opportunity, to pursue a dream.
It is a bold, at times ironic story that crosses deserts, borders and glances, and begins with an encounter with the most cunning trafficker in West Africa.
The production by the Compagnia Bottega degli Apocrifi creates a theatre of listening: essential, direct, intimate. Inspired by the Human Library (founded in Denmark), it guides the form: telling one's story as a way to get closer, to transform curiosity into knowledge, the encounter into collective memory. On stage, there is no chronicle of a “case”, but the presence of a person: emotions, needs, instinct. The distance shortens, prejudices crack, words open up questions that remain after the applause.
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