NESSUNO

Nobody is the new work of the #SIneNOmine Company, as always directed by Giorgio Flamini, and constitutes the first part of a diptych including, as the second show and necessary conclusion of the first, the play Victims. Nobody is an overwrought journey exemplified in the Odyssey, the beginning of which is set in the bleak glow of days spent in the περιπετειαι of the many Nobody-prisoners, whirling precipitously until landing in an Ithaca that is the very reality of incarceration: an Ithaca-Hades without light and without hope, where light and hope could be constituted from a return to the "possible-before" that is not given to hope for, when it is not the same "time-finite" to lacking as a dimension of everyday existence. Played on the inclined plane univocally directed toward the absurd situation of a homeland that, far from comforting, traps and locks up until the end of days, Nobody narrates the infinite possible adventures that, from one mistake to another, entrench the subject until to nailing him in the dimension of condemnation, placed every day in front to of a re-emergence of which the contours are not glimpsed, in an erasure of subjectivity, of individual recognition, of reconstruction of a destiny. The play takes inspiration from from some of the many Odysseas and from the many Odysseuses that have run through Western literature, from the foundational, Homeric one, to that of melodrama, to contemporary typifications: each of the Odysseuses brought to the stage is made their own, and even forced by the Actors-protagonists, and speaks of a trait of experience of these men-without-a-name, allowing themselves to be plunged into scenic visions that are usually expressionistically violent, as violent is the experience, life and psychological, of the protagonists on stage, who after all tell of nothing but themselves. As it was said, Nobody-Odysseus would not make sense, or would not have it fully, if it were not already thought of in the light of Victims: and this is said so that to no one may arise the suspicion that we want to talk about the punishment of the perpetrator without thinking that there is a punishment of the victim, because simplification does not belong to this Company, whose work, challenging, is on the contrary, to open territories of reflection to complexity, to deepening, to coming out of the easy and fearful paths of common sense. This work would never have come to fruition without the enlightened willingness and collaboration of the Management of Casa di Reclusione di Maiano, in particular the Director Dr. Luca Sardella, and the Prison Police, in particular the Commander Dr. Marco Piersigilli, the availability and support of the Supervisory Court of Spoleto in particular Dr. Grazia Manganaro, as happens in such impressive works for organizational effort, thanks go to the Management Staff, the Prison Police, the Educators all. Gratitude goes to all the Actors-prisoners, to all the inmates who remained "Behind the scenes" for the realization of the scenic project, scenes, script, makeup, costumes, to all the volunteers, to the professional Actors and dancers, without whom the 'opera would have been other from what it is. Immense gratitude to the "shepherd of peoples" director Giorgio Flamini.

_Roberta Galassi, school principal II.S Sansi Leonardi Volta _