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direction Riccardo Reina
light design Gianni Staropoli
with Angela Forti, Agata Garbuio, Riccardo Reina, Aron Tewelde
production Teatro Metastasio di Prato and Associazione Culturale Malerba (2023)

Image and object theatre, without words, for adult audience (14+)

A ball masked and armed to the teeth. An irreverent musical on the razor's edge. A toy weapon for playing war. And, finally, the desert. A miniature desert. A waiting room desert. A shopping centre, pretend desert, closed up in a box: a children desert, a toy desert.
Alle Armi does not speak of this or other wars. Alle Armi is an experiment. The attempt to focus on the political and economic issue of the international arms market, which, concerns us closely as European and Western countries and which, during the conception of this show, has become dramatically current. And it tries to do it through toys’ lens, contaminating techniques and codes in search of a meeting point between civil and objects theatre. More than a title, ‘Alle Armi’ is a formula: a declaration of intent, and at the same time a cry of alarm. And perhaps also an exhortation, an appeal. To take up arms, of course: but which ones?
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