A reflection on Workers’ Day.

As part of the Piccolo Smart project, the chapter dedicated to the “calendario civile” and the tribute that the Piccolo intends to pay continues and grows, motivated by the institutes roots as a public service and its identity as “An Art Theatre for All”. Upcoming dates from Italy’s popular and democratic history that the project aims to celebrate include 1 May and 9 May, as well as 2 June, near which will be brought together in a single digital presentation created in the spirit of the “Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo”, first with the series of podcasts that inaugurated PiccoloSmart, and then with the reopening of the theatres and four days of rehearsals open to the public. The spin-off of the Abbecedario will be meaningfully entitled Abbecedario Civile, and brings together three dates, three letters and three different languages: L for lavoro (labour) for 1 May, (through writing), E for Europe, for 9 May (in the form of audio/podcast), R for Repubblica for 2 June (in video form). The same playwrights involved in the “Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo” project will be called on to lend their original interpretation to these three moments in Italian popular culture (and more), divided into three groups, one for each letter.

 

1° maggio – L come Lavoro
The first group – comprised of Ian Bertolini, Rosalinda Conti, Christian di Furia, Tommaso Fermariello, Valentina Gamna, Carlo Guasconi, Marco Morana, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Luca Tazzari, Michelangelo Zeno – will compose texts in whatever form they prefer, be it poetry or prose, of social importance, which they have been asked to set in a public context. The final work will have the collective name of Opera: “In our writing, we will be concentrating on the relationship between time and work. In order to create a sense of unity, we have based the structure on the parts that make up an Opera. This decision is based on the idea of time and of the rhythm of work, and on the idea of opera as an artisan product”.
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