Ballard of the homeless. A different story every night

Ascanio Celestini closes the 10^th edition of Dialogues with a tale about those at the very margins of society, the forgotten people, those denied coexistence, people who are not welcomed and at best tolerated. Interweaving stories, improvisations and texts from his previous shows, Celestini tells us about the supermarket checkout girl (from Pueblo) or the Old Woman (from Laika) who shops with the prostitute and the woman with her head in a muddle. Giobbe, who is illiterate but knows the layout of hypermarket by heart, is a new character, though his story is already written. And we don’t even know what happened to the storeman who hates the gypsy, but this character already appeared in Pueblo. These are just a few of the possible personalities in this storytelling exercise set in the stimulating environment of a suburb. The narrator tells us what he sees, sometimes things he knows and other times things he imagines.

With Gianluca Casadei (accordion, keyboards and live electronics).