How many things do Luigi Tenco and Cesare Pavese have in common? Many, more than can be explained on paper.
Certainly the courage to get to the heart of the matter, the simplicity of the poetic voice, the confessional tone, the musicality of the phrase, the nakedness of the verb and, with this, the courage to expose oneself to the banal. And then there is eternal childhood, thirsty for everything and, on the other hand, disillusionment, melancholy, that sad dust that settles on experience; the difficult “commitment” to the world; and again, the truly popular posthumous consideration of their work and their figures; and finally suicide, which for both was not only a tragic contingent fact but a (peacefully) possible footnote to their poetic and existential parable.
Orlando Manfredi and Luca Occelli bring to life on stage the story of an epigone - called “il Nostro” (the One) - who tries, with tragicomic results, to replicate the greatness and failures, the art and life of the two Piedmontese idols.
Starting from their own experiences as admirers and enthusiasts of Tenco and Pavese since childhood, drawing on authentic and evocative family experiences, the actors bring to the stage the intersections between one author and another, through a sensory journey where boundaries blur and contaminate each other, just as the driving force behind the stage story is contaminated.