On the occasion of the 19th edition of the Italian language week in the world: “The Italian Language on stage”, in the framework of the XL Akko International Fring Theater Festival and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa, a show coproduced by DOO | DIVANO OCCIDENTALE ORIENTALE performing arts group (Italy) and by Teatro Popular Melico Salazar (Costa Rica). Written and directed by Giuseppe L. Bonifai.
In a country that has existed for more than 50 years without an army, Greta has a dream that she keeps hidden as fiercely as her virginity: to become a soldier-woman. In order to make it real she secretly performs a desperate attempt: she wants to be accepted into the “Civil Guard”. The police chief, Ramón, apparently listens to her and understands her. But he is a rather corrupt man. The young girl is overwhelmed by an orgy of words that make her believe in the man’s true interest, and she trusts him. Nevertheless, Ramón takes her by force, as in a ritual sacrifice. Will these roots of a “happy past that has produced unhappy people” bring Greta in the end to be crushed by the memory of a lost and sincere time? Only at the end of the performance the conclusion has an unexpected outcome, that of a revolution. The revolution of ‘the different’, the last possibility to resist, albeit unnecessarily, to the barbarism that is approaching. Greta then pays for her lost dream of becoming a soldier and without complaining she says farewell to herself and to what she has lost along the way, with a deep wound in her heart.
In Spanish with Hebrew translation.
Show recommended for adult audiences [+16]
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XL AKKO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATER FESTIVAL
* Tuesday, October 15 2019, at 20:00
* Wednesday, October 16 2019, at 19:00
White Hall – Akko