“Che cosa è oggi la città, per noi? Le città sono un insieme di tante cose:
di memoria, di desideri, di segni del linguaggio; le città sono luoghi di scambio,
ma questi scambi non sono soltanto merci, sono scambi di parole, di desideri, di ricordi.”
Italo Calvino

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Italo Calvino, Instabili Vaganti is staging a new version of The Global City, a text by Nicola Pianzola inspired by Invisible Cities.
The Global City is a metamorphic performance, in which the micro-stories collected by the author in the major metropolises of the planet are artistically recomposed on stage, drawing a dystopian and virtual city of memory.
In this planetary journey beyond borders, the protagonist –a contemporary Marco Polo– performs a series of transformations, embodying different characters and speaking different languages, to recount real and surreal situations experienced by the company in its restless wandering.
Highly topical global themes emerge, from the Korean crisis to class contrasts in the Indian subcontinent, from forced disappearances in Mexico to the problem of crossing borders that still separate many countries.
In the staging, directed by Anna Dora Dorno, the "Global City" appears as a kaleidoscopic mechanism of sounds, music, songs, specially composed, and video projections mapped onto metal surfaces, which invade this ideal megalopolis, until they decorate, like a virtual tattoo, the faces and bodies of its inhabitants.
Faces that become the screens of smartphones, bodies that move in unison until they merge into the multitude and form a "liquid" chorus, in continuous transformation, capable of guiding the spectator through the intricate space-time labyrinth of places and memories, in the meanders of a city that continues to enchant the traveller because it is suspended between reality and imagination, narration and representation.
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A talk with director Anna Dora Dorno is scheduled at the National School of Drama after the performance.
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