The differents, almost equals, but differents
Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Festival
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In November 2005, in Rome, the
first edition of the Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Laboratory, ideated
and leaded by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher,
started. At the end of a eight months travel, the
first participating group became a theatre company: “The differents,
almost equals, but differents”, that debuted in June ’06 with the show: “Stories
on the mirror”, most of all written by the actors. The thought behind
this work was: Interculture means confront, exchange and communication
among diverse cultures, towards an opened view and a larger dialogue between
differences, against each discrimination. However, somehow, privileging
interest to origins and traditions of the person that we meet - even if rich
and amazing - and that normally we call a stranger, we may risk to forget his
true particularity, maybe the most important thing: his story and not his
country's one, his experience and not his people's one, his emotions and
feelings, not his race's one. So, we can make the mistake to build a weak and
false image, a masquerade, where people are just playing roles: the African,
the Chinese, the Arabian and so on. Words are important and, when concepts
linked to them have a fundamental value in our life, contradictions are not
possible. We are different or equal? We can't be both, this is our
provocation. We ask you to choose. If you believe that we are all the same,
this show is not for you. On the contrary, if you think we are all unique,
then, maybe, you could agree with the idea behind this pièce: the most
powerful, significant and revolutionary way to have an intercultural point of
view, in other words, to underline the importance of differences and of
richness inside our individuality, is to show the diversity of people that
often think themselves as equal (not celebrating the equality of
strangers...), to tell how much they are interesting to listen when they are
speaking of themselves and how all become wonderful if they are so proud to
mix each others.
The
first edition of the Festival
Recent news:
The gift of
diversity
Intercultural
theatre storytelling Festival
II
Edition, 2008
Rome, May
8-24
Last update:
2008/03/17
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