World
premiere at
Roma
Heroes – 2nd International Roma Storytelling Festival
Saturday,
26th May 2018, 6:00 p.m., Studio K Theatre
“I offered to shake hands but the boy stood up and was
a head taller than me and looking scary! “I don’t shake hands with Italians
pieces of shit!” My answer: “I’m Sicilian, not Italian!” This made some effect
on him as I later understood that Roma people like Sicily, Naples and generally
tend to have better relation with people from south of Italy.”
The circus artist, performer and teacher talks about his own life. His
own identity is still uncertain as the presumably Roma origin of his
grandmother was concealed by the family. At the age of 17, the protagonist,
black sheep of the family, ran away and travelled all over Europe as a musician
and circus artist. He worked with Antonioni. In 2000, he went to Norway where
he learnt that Roma people were tortured in the country during the 20th
century, as people thought that sterilisation and lobotomy are useful. After, the
artist returned to Italy to work with Roma children. Almost nobody believed in
these kids except from him, but he founded a band with the stateless youngsters
living in segregated ghettos.
written and
performed by Sebastiano Spinella
In English
language with Hungarian surtitles.
After the
performance, the artist will be in conversation.