Earthworms, blind and deaf, turn over and sift the earth day after day. From the depth of the ground, bringing to surface little heaps of earth, they lift the earth, they transform the landscape and they preserve the many old objects they bury.

They cover and protect, allowing what is buried to return to the surface. To find earthworms you need to dig and enter the earth, because only by being with them for a while is it possible to understand their secret. Oh! It is an impossible undertaking, because no one can go underground, and stay alive living with the earthworms! It is then necessary to do what Alcestis did, become like her, to follow her story as told by Euripides, a poet of ancient Greece.

Alcestis, accepting to die in the place of her husband Admetus, descend into the viscera of the earth and then, thanks to Heracles’ help, goes back to the surface leaving the earthworms to their tireless action: going down to then come back up…under…over…upside down…an inextinguishable movement that enlightens tragedy with hope.

The show —created through a laboratory with Chiara Guidi on the 'Errant Method'—is an open theatre form, and needs the children to take form and to be realized. Children, led by the figures of the narrative, enter the performance space and determine the progress of the story through their decisions and interventions.

This show is intended for children ages 7-14 and adults.
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The Land of the Earthworms is part of Chiara Guidi’s Residency at the Dodoni Summer Festival.

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