Dust - The wanted life

DUST is the adventure of eight physically and mentally disabled persons who have been living in the Cottolengo Institute of Turin for over fifty years. This is neither a script nor an attempt to tell their discomfort.Through a creative artistic path revolving around theatre, these characters in search of an author stage themselves and the life that they would like to lead. This study resulted in a theatrical trilogy precisely entitled Polvere (Dust).

“I regard this small group of actors as survivors. Survivors of an old age, who perform the play of life, – the desired life instead of the real one – through the theatre. And then they look like the heroes of this dream, a Ulysses in love with his Penelope, a minnesinger disguised as a sailor peering at other places, other races and other feelings with his binoculars, a buffoon dressed as the Pink Panther mocking an entire Parliament which focuses on the eternal battle on the cry of “Vote for me!”, a dumb actor who has fun with silent movies playing the part of Charlot and a Snow White, who does not know her age and is secretly in love with the seven dwarfs.”