Storia di amore e di alberi

By FRANCESCO NICCOLINI
With SIMONA GAMBARO
Directed by FRANCESCO NICCOLINI and LUIGI D’ELIA
Objects by LUIGI D’ELIA and SIMONA GAMBARO
Lights by LUCA TELLESCHI
Music by BEVANO EST and ANTONIO CATALANO
Production by INTI
With the support of CATALYST – TEATRO CORSINI BARBERINO DI MUGELLO and GIALLO MARE MINIMAL TEATRO EMPOLI as part of the “RESIDENZE” PROJECT ART. 43 MIBACT – TUSCANY REGION
Very loosely inspired by THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES by Jean Giono
 
SHOW SELECTED BY GIRLS AND BOYS OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS AS PART OF THE PARTICIPATORY SELECTION PROJECT “CLASS THEATRE”

He arrives waddling like a penguin and wearing a red helmet, wandering in the empty space of the theater, not knowing why he is there or what he is supposed to do. He is very confused, a little annoyed, and above all, overloaded with objects attached to a backpack larger than he is. Not content with that, he also carries an old suitcase found who knows where and a small oak tree in a pot, with a watering can in tow. But who is he?
Even he, looking around, asks himself the same question: who am I? Who are all those people staring at him? Maybe they want to help him? Do they have the time to listen to his story? Will they have any good advice to help him solve at least some of his messes?
Because he has made a lot of messes…
Little by little, the strange character begins to confess his misadventures and soon his talking becomes a rushing river: he speaks of lost clouds, skies and mountains, circuses, canaries, lions and clowns, of a mad poetess and her red shoes, but above all of a great man, his poetic resistance, and his stubborn generosity: a man who planted trees!
As he tells these stories, so different from one another, all those stories he has traversed with his hidden presence have a common denominator: the search for shared happiness.
So maybe that’s why he случайно arrived at this theater? To fulfill his story and share with those who listened to him his newfound happiness?