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IL MIGLIORE DEI MONDI POSSIBILI 1980 2025
directed by Giorgio Flamini
assistant director, actors, extras, audio/video technicians inmates of the Maiano di Spoleto House of Detention
script and text inmates of the Maiano di Spoleto House of Detention.
adaptation and supervision Roberta Galassi and Giorgio Flamini
more texts from Shot in the Back of the Head by Sergio Lenci
from _The theater and its double _by Antonin Artaud
scenes by Simone Bacci, Maria Paola Buono, Michele Zualdi
realization scenes inmates students in the Scenotechnical Laboratory of the Art Institute prison section IIS Sansi Leonardi Volta
music and video produced by inmates of the Maiano di Spoleto House of Reclusion
show produced by theSansi Leonardi Volta Institute of Higher Education, school director Roberta Galassi, and the Maiano di Spoleto Detention Home, director Luca Sardella, Commandant Marco Piersigilli
characters and performers
student prisoners
with the participation of
Peter Biondi in the role of the architect
**Mauro Bronchi **in the role of a criminal and a journalist.
Anna Leonardi as a Camorra mother
**Diletta Masetti **Justice
Anna Von Gablenz Berlin journalist
**Virginia Virilli **NYC journalist.
photos are by **Kim Mariani **from the show Affective Pathetic Captivity
Roberta Galassi, Marco Piersigilli, Luca Sardella enabled this theatrical production.
30 years of crimes reenacted in 15 minutes and then, on stage, criminals decide not to commit crimes anymore. No more magistrates, lawyers, decayed prisons are transformed into multiplexes and residences: two cells house the survivors end of sentence never. But why does Justice continue to to speak that strange incomprehensible language?
... we gather under the Tower, Prison Police barracks... darkness is enveloping the prison, a city noise, (sounds of horns, sirens and voices, as from an open window on a busy street)... it's May 2, 1980... drawings can be seen, plans for the jail...man screams...wrists tied from a plastic clamping band are purple from the grip...
"Dear Giulia," the only woman in the Commando, "I hope that you and your children are well and that the situation improves toward complete freedom. Sincerely"
crimes... scene of an extortion... of a robbery, of a murder we go through the corridors transformed into a gallery of criminal memories... crimes animate the walls... from the gates, motionless men, look at us, show their hands, beg for mercy... of others we brush their legs, they are placed on high stools... their backs bare and hunched under to neon lamps... their gaze to ground... they raise their heads a little, obsessively repeat a litany... "I haven't been, I haven't been... I don't know anything... I don't speak," some weep some curse... men carry other men, some go up and down from a bunk continually loaded and unloaded with bodies... binders! folders and folders... paper, paper, paper... a very tall woman appears... beautiful, bright... looks like a Madonna... pass the years 2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.... 15, 16, 17, 18...there is a lot of talk about it on the news and talkshows in early July 2019 public notices are issued by the Ministry of Justice for the reuse of prisons as schools, performing arts centers, or hospices...it's 2025...on the news the children of some inmates...to be continued...
The #SINENOMINE project began as a theater workshop for the staging of Jean Genet's Sorveglianza speciale to 30 years after Marco Gagliardo's experience in 1982 at the 25th Festiva dei Due Mondi.
The #SN theater workshop, which started with fifteen inmates, over the years has exceeded one hundred participants, of all ages and nationalities, from from various security circuits, aged between 20 and 70, able to play different roles (playwright, actor, dancer, assistant director, assistant set designer, props man, audio-visual officer, stage manager ...). After the first experience, the project continued with the #MA#IA#NO# trilogy composed from three plays written with the involvement of the inmates: _Pathetic Affections/Affective Activity, The Best of All Possible Worlds 1980 2025, Miracle to Maiano_La, included in the programming of the 56th, 57thand 58th Festival dei Due Mondi. Thereafter, from 2016 to 2022, the Spoleto Festival hosted a new production each year: 'to città 'e Pulecenella, Nessuno, VICTIMS, Nessuno Torna to Itaca si non se noverit, Storia Vera 'e capite comm'è, Sempre in quell'aura Sanza tempo tinta, Tempo Libero c and, in 2022, the show Je est un autre. In each project, the #SINENOMINE Company is joined by from professional artists, collaborates on a permanent basis with actors and students from the Teodelapio theater school, and makes use of the professional contributions of Euno Terni for movement and choreography, the Ad Cantus Vocale Choir for the musical and singing parts, Studio Flamenco Roma and their respective artistic directors. The granting of alternative measures granted by the Magistrate of Surveillance and the management to inmate-actors has enabled some inmates to perform with the Company extramoenia throughout the country (Rome, Turin, Genoa, Chieti, Calcata, Matera, Florence, Foligno, Terni). The Company is supported by the generosity of numerous artists (among them Sara Ragni, Laura Bassetta, Mariolina Maconio, Lucia Napoli, Pina Segoni, Lorena Salis, Serena Perna, Francesco Corrias, EUNO dancers, singers of the ad Cantus Vocale Choir) and supported by the Casa di Reclusione, Festival dei Due Mondi, the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation, from other local entities.
Artistic director of the "#SIneNOmine Company," collaborates from eleven years with the Spoleto House of Detention. He is a director, architect, set designer, lecturer in stage design and drawing, and history
of art in Spoleto's high schools. from more than 25 years, he has initiated paths of recovery and post-prison social reintegration. He is president of the Teodelapio theater association-which from over 20 years promotes cultural growth through theater, reading and acting education and runs the city's theater school-and the theater-in-prison project. It has curated a series of theatrical events and exhibitions aimed at free and restricted audiences, favored by the Magistrate of Surveillance and carried out with the management, the treatment area and the Penitentiary Police of the Spoleto Detention Home, including In-Visible, the Song of Songs, Wafer by Paola de Rosa, Monologues by Aldo Nicolaj, the anm of che mmuort, True History and Capite comm'è, Je est un autre).D