The article highlights the experience of ‘CantieriMeticci’, a theatre group which started a few years ago in Bologna, the initiative of Pietro Floridia. It is a heterogeneous ensemble where migrants refugees and asylum seekers join Italians and Europeans: And the ‘opportunity to become artistic professionals is given to people who we meet on the street.’ We present a reading in progress that the Company gave of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, focused on the figure of Caliban. The texts developed by the young actors of the groups start from key concepts like ghetto, colonialisation, and stigma and use what Floridia defines as ‘ a work of deconstruction-reconstruction of the text’ evoking the interpretation of the relationship between Prospero and Caliban in the light of the slave/boss, anticolonial model used by some of the most authoritative writers of Postcolonial Studies: from Frantz Fanon to Aimé Césaire who were inspired by Shakespeare’s text.
CantieriMeticci : dove migranti, rifugiati e italiani diventano «professionisti delle arti». Un viaggio verso l’Altro rileggendo La Tempesta di Shakespeare
Laura Budriesi
2018
Abstract
The article highlights the experience of ‘CantieriMeticci’, a theatre group which started a few years ago in Bologna, the initiative of Pietro Floridia. It is a heterogeneous ensemble where migrants refugees and asylum seekers join Italians and Europeans: And the ‘opportunity to become artistic professionals is given to people who we meet on the street.’ We present a reading in progress that the Company gave of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, focused on the figure of Caliban. The texts developed by the young actors of the groups start from key concepts like ghetto, colonialisation, and stigma and use what Floridia defines as ‘ a work of deconstruction-reconstruction of the text’ evoking the interpretation of the relationship between Prospero and Caliban in the light of the slave/boss, anticolonial model used by some of the most authoritative writers of Postcolonial Studies: from Frantz Fanon to Aimé Césaire who were inspired by Shakespeare’s text.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
