"I look for the North Star, my compass is not enough ,I have to look with my eyes at that mysterious and romantic light that lights up every night next to the moon. When I am old I must not forget that star, especially when hope needs her."
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The mouth of the mine is closed from more than fifty years but the voices from the belly of the earth can still be heard. They are the voices that continue to digging into everyday life, among the memory of years of suffering and great achievements.

Two worlds, the one below, and the one above the land of Spoleto and Italy, an original writing born after a series of surveys and interviews that brings to light the brotherhood, pride, pain and days of hope of the miners of Morgnano and their families.

The show has its stage space at the Morgnano Mine (Orlando pit) in S. Croce. A story still alive and universal of miners above and men below the floor of the world, to three hundred and fifty meters deep from our lives. On stage will be Benigno Fabbi , a miner from the Orlando Shaft, along with other miners, witnesses and protagonists of life in the mine.

Thomas Otto Zinzi

"... one night when he was finishing his shift, he dug so deep into the coal layer that he could to see through a hole the sky below his feet. At first he thought that the mine and consequently the sky had turned upside down, but to looking at it closely it was the same sky three hundred and fifty meters above, with its stars, clouds and moonlight. In short, all the things in the sky in their place. So what? Could it be possible that he had made such a deep hole from pass from part to part the earth? Impossible. So what? He crinkled his eyes well and looked again into the hole. There was no doubt it was indeed the sky. It's okay that strange things happen in mines, but this then .... He looked into the hole again. It was indeed the sky, an upside-down sky. He would have given all the gold in the world to have had someone near to him who could share that absurd vision,but he was at the end of the shift and the others had already risen to the surface, only he was missing, who being the mouth leader, would rise last."

"to what is the use of telling stories? to what is the use of making examples? Do we tell for ourselves or for others? È ... that the mouth opens and out comes ... the soul! We show the teeth, the tongue, the eyes with those hand movements, those contractions of the abdomen. We are a moment in this infinite constellation of human beings. In that moment there is life and death, hope and resignation, there is one hand seeking another in the acceptance of a life full of calluses, cuts and slight tremors."

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THOMAS OTTO ZINZI

He was born to Rome from Luigi and Rosa Zinzi,Italian-American immigrants,on Feb. 28, 1960, the last of four siblings after Pasquale, Nicholas and Mary. Theater director, actor since 1977, graduated from the School of Performing Arts Techniques in 1982. He has founded and directed several Theater Workshops in Italy. He currently directs the Workshop The Craft of Emotion. He taught acting at Collegio Nazareno in Rome in collaboration with the ETI school from 1994 to 2007 and at LUMSA University in Rome from 2003 to 2005. As an actor he has been directed by, among others, from Claretta Carotenuto, Lucio Chiavarelli Alfio Adrover in theater and film from various directors, including J.M. Sanchez, M. Monicelli, F. Vancini, M. Guglielmi, C. Lizzani, F. Rosi. He was assistant director for Italy to English playwright Arnold Wesker. After a series of meetings at Giorgio Strehler's Piccolo Teatro in Milan with Tino Carraro and Carlo Battistoni and graduating in directing from Claretta Carotenuto's School of Performing Arts Techniques in 1986, he directed about sixty shows, including some new for Italy such as Alfonso and Clotilde by C.M. Varela, Visi noti sentimenti confusi by B.Strauss, Ragazza che precipita by D. Buzzati and some elaborations such as L'altra Madre percorso attraverso il dolore delle madri in Pirandello and La Visione del pensiero percorso dal teatro al cinema by L. Pirandello. He collaborates with the Ippolito Nievo Foundation in the context of Literary Parks where he directed, among others, a Sentimental Journey of three days and two nights in the places of Montefeltro mentioned in the three Cantiche of the Divine Comedy. He participated for two years to Paris in the Seminars of Marcel Marceau, a student of, among others, Luisa Poselli in Movement and Theater Education. In the literary sphere, he won 2 Mer Prizes with publication of short stories. Pagine editions published his poems in the Dictionary of Poets and several books. One of his texts was selected from Aldo Forbice and published in the book dedicated to the September 11 tragedy entitled Waves of Rage and Fear. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Dino Buzzati's birth, he conceived and directed La Milano dei Tartari, eight performances staged in the author's inspirational places (Teatro alla Scala, Brera Palace, Planetarium, Monumentale...) taken from the novels,short stories and crime reports in collaboration with Progetto Italia, Stanislao Nievo and Fondazione Ippolito Nievo.

In 2008 he directed Anna Màlvica in her text Mamma Randagia ( reported for the Ferse Prize, 2011)

In 2010 he wrote and directed Rhinoceroses to Rome, at the Academy of Romania.

In 2011 he directed and starred with to Marco Ubaldini and Guglielmo Frabetti in IONA by M. Sorescu.

In 2013 she will stage to Montevideo,Uruguay, for the first time her play Mamma Randagia translated into Spanish Mama' Vagabunda directed by playwright Carlos Manuel Varela.

Directs the Theater Workshop for political refugees at Caritas to Rome.

In 1998 he founded PROGETTO MINIERA, a work team made up of from performing arts professionals who, through workshops, performances, readings and research delve into the emotion and depths of the Soul.

On Sept. 20, 2004, he won the First National Theater Prize VALLECORSI with his text IO e TE , which he received to Pistoia on Dec. 12 in the Ansaldo Breda Factory. The text was published in Hystrio magazine (Oct.-Dec.2004) and premiered at Teatro del Tempo in Parma on March 31, 2006.

The digging work that an actor does every day in seeking the truth of the character remains in the Soul of the spectator and forms the stage space.

Actor and director take the audience inside the action decided by instinct through a daily construction of Emotion.

www.progettominiera.it

Theater is a Th8Z GL Mine Work.

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