BEŒL TEATRO
‘NA LONGA E ‘NA CURTA
By and with Moira Mion
Stage lights: Paolo Scortegagna, Music on stage Marco Rizzo
‘Na longa e ‘na curta'starts from the necessity of giving, in our small way, new life to the oral popular tradition, believing that the heritage of our folklore can find a space for participation in current daily life, as the contents are indeed current. We attempted to follow the steps of the "storyteller," who skillfully took his ingredients here and there, as needed, depending on the story he wanted to serve to those listening: anecdotes, short stories, parables, jokes, fairy tales, accounts of real events, legends, songs, sayings related to events.
This is how we distilled this text, gathering witticisms and knowledge drawn from the Bible of the Poor, the tragicomic Saga of Saint Peter, articles from 1700 newspapers such as the Osservatore and the Gazzetta Veneta by Gaspare Gozzi, not forgetting the street and alley stories. For the songs, we were immensely helped by the research work of Gianluigi Secco (Belumat).
