Texts by Andrea Pennacchi in collaboration with Marco Gnaccolini, Marco Segato, Raffaele Pizzatti Sertorelli music by Giorgio Gobbo performed live by Giorgio Gobbo (guitar and voice) Annamaria Moro (cello).
An eco-narrative ballad about our relationship with biodiversity, an epic and ironic musical show that explores our complex, unbalanced, at times schizophrenic but indispensable bond with other animal and plant species on the planet, inviting the audience to reflect on the very concept of “alien” and the necessity of redefining our relationship with Nature.
From the unexpected return of wildlife to cities during lockdown, starting from a small condominium garden seen as a dirty and contemporary Eden, we delve into the Era of Malleability and Ecological Amnesia, where wild boars, bears, wolves, blue crabs, fireflies, like spirits of ancestors wandering among the apartments and descendants of tavern-dwelling humans, blend into a thicket of stories, to reflect on our origins and the ecological impacts of our living.
A theatrical narrative that blends reality and fantasy, history and biography, science and Venetian folklore: “my grandmother, who was a bit of a witch, used to say that if animals enter your dreams, they always want to say something.”
