The youth theatre festival returns to Veronetta (Verona)

The Festival is dedicated to the new generations ed is created at the end of the year of workshops of the Spazio Teatro Giovani school, directed by Silvia Masotti and Camilla Zorzi. In the last edition, more than 130 boys and girls were involved in the shows, for an audience of 2000 people of which 1200 under 35.

Program 6 – 28 June. The festival program this year is enriched with new productions and more evenings on three main themes: testimonies or stories of courage and resistance (Relays on 6 and 7 June at 21.30 pm and The White Rose, 11 and 12 June at 21.30 pm), reworkings of the myth (Aeneas, the foreigner 13 and 14 June at 21.30 pm and Another Medea17, 18 and 19 June at 21.30 pm), to conclude with contemporary drama texts in this case two works by Stefano Massini, staged by kind permission of the author.

This is LFC, adapted from Ladies Football Club by Stefano Massini, on stage on 22, 23, 24 June at 21.30 pm, with a group of girls aged 19 to 30.

It is the story of the first women's football team, in England during the First World War. A group of workers with irony, effort, embarrassment and sensation kick the ball; every kick of each of them implies a move forward towards a society without prejudice, where each and every one can run towards their own life, because a passion, a true one, has no time, no age, no sex. It just needs to be let live.

For each of the three evenings of entertainment a dialogue is moderated between the young actresses and three professional footballers, on the issues of gender equality in sport, in collaboration with the city councilor with responsibility for equal opportunities Beatrice Verzè. The date of June 23rd is made thanks to the support of Farmacie San Nazaro and San Paolo.

The second project taken from Massini's dramaturgy, for the first time on stage, is Manhattan Project, on stage 26, 27, 28 June, always at hours 21.30, that features a group of young people aged 21 to 30 years what a damage life to the history of the ambitious American program that he brought to the invention of the atomic bomb. Robert Oppenheimer he was put in charge of this project and gave the definitive green light to the construction of one of the most powerful and terrible inventions in the history of man... From then on nothing was the same as before.
The date of June 28th was created thanks to the support of Prisma Studio.

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The Festival is an opportunity for relationships, as well as with e among the boys, with other associations and realities of the city, committed to spreading a culture linked to young people and the territory: collaborate in the creation of the Festival: Angeli del Bello, Udu and Department of Cultures and Civilizations of the University of Verona, Libreria Pagina Dodici, Lazy Dog Press, the First District and the Committee for the Charity Carnival Simeon de L'Isolo, which has custody of the Santa Toscana Park. In addition, the Lebanese restaurant Tabulè will manage the food truck for the evenings of the show.

The review, created with the patronage and support of the Department of Youth Policies of the Municipality of Verona, was presented yesterday by the Councilor for Youth Policies together with the directors and teachers of the Spazio Teatro Giovani theater school Silvia Masotti and Camilla Zorzi, Andrea Marconi, general secretary of the Banca Popolare di Verona Foundation, Luana Montolli, student of Spazio Teatro Giovani.

"The festival fully touches on the values ​​of the Administration such as the involvement of the young people of our city in the reactivation of spaces and the theater as a place of growth and reflection", said the councilor for youth policies.

"Theater", Silvia Masotti and Camilla Zorzi tell us, “It's movement. We move from ourselves to step into the shoes of others. You face mistrust and fear, you learn to approach others with respect. Theater is done together, therefore the movement of each person implies the movement of the group. The group holds together the difference, which is a fundamental resource, so from simplification and homologation we move towards the infinite complexity of human nature: we train to know it, to understand it, to talk about it. In the theater we also move as spectators: we go to the theater because something happens, so that the movement in space produces the same in the thought and in the soul... All this for us is the meaning of doing theater with young people: creating possible movements that in turn create other shifts in minds."

Info and reservations:

Access to the Park will be allowed to those who have booked their place in advance by sending an email to spazio.teatro.giovani@gmail.com indicating your data and contacts. A booking confirmation email will be sent. Seats will be assigned on the evening of the show in order of arrival.

The shows will be free of charge.

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