THEATRICAL REPERTOIRE

As a child, I read the Greek myths with a flashlight, under the covers.
My imaginary bestiery is made of night, of silence, of insomnia. Seeds planted very early, with long, thin, incredibly tenacious roots. I’ve carried these stories with me for a lifetime, literally.
I think this is the heart of my theatrical work for and with children: to share the limitless joy of those nights under the covers—the profound realization that the world is huge, rainbow-hued (to take Hawthorne’s term), that it extends from a remote past of magical tales, that it will open like an enormous flower towards a future of infinite adventure, ‘in which you, young reader, shall play the protagonist!’
The question, ‘Who knows who I will be?’ is implicit in all my children’s theatre work.
Robert McNeer
(from the notes to “Uròboros, or Whatever Happened Behind the Stars”)

Robert McNeer

Attualmente, abbiamo tre spettacoli in repetorio:

“Dream in the Middle”
…with apologies to Shakespeare
a show for children and adults from 11 years old
World premiere at “Maggio all’Infanzia”, Brindisi, Italy, May 2008
Dramaturgy and direction Robert McNeer
With Paola Calogero,Elena Giove, Nico Masciullo, Mirco Trevisan

Four tender teenage clowns live a Shakespearean adventure, full dream images, music, martial arts and rather clumsy dancing, creating a show both funny and poetic, in which we can see ourselves: the storms of love, the joys and fears of adolescence—and the hope of being loved for who we really are…

This show has already played for Greek audiences, and is readily accessible to non-Italian speakers.

“KiSaKiSaRò”
KiSaKiSaRò (Who Knows Who I Will Be)
Big questions for little heads
A play for humans from 6 years old, inspired by Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’
“KiSaKiSaRò” is a theatrical game full of musical and visual transformations seen through the eyes of a child, accompanied by her poetry. It is a voyage through Greek myth, into that place where nothing is as it seems, and magic is the stuff of every day…

“WOZ’AMERICA”
A big country for little spectators by and with Robert McNeer
A play for anyone who was ever 3 years old
“This dream, that you can even walk on the moon if you really want to, is the America that I want to share with these children. I do so from the top of a very tall platform. I don’t actually fly, but don’t tell them that…”

As well as these plays, we would like to remember:

'“ODYSSEY”
A play for young and old people from 12 on
“You are on the sea. Deepest night. You turn on the radio, and find yourself pulled into the story of Odisseus, the eternal stranger, tirelessly, breathlessly searching the way home, before it’s too late…”

“URòBOROS,” or Whatever Happened Behind the Stars,
which we opened in the year 2000, and played happily for children from 6 years old, until the year 2004