Talents Adami Théâtre, Jonathan Capdevielle

From 1960 to 1965, letters arrive by the dozen addressed to Pier Paolo Pasolini, at that time head of reader’s letters on the weekly newspaper Vie Nuove. The poet replies to them void of any form of demagogy, and with political commitment and sensitivity. In a tense political and social context, he has become a trusted interlocutor. This results in the opening up of a complex and sincere dialogue between the artist and a deeply-divided Italy: a nation which is, by turns, proletarian, bourgeois, communist, and fascist. Jonathan Capdevielle hones in on this polyphonic spoken word—both literary and popular—in which transdisciplinarity becomes a place of exploration, expression and communion. Within this multi-faceted writing, the director goes in search of social and political resonances with the present day. He does so by bringing into existence on the stage a community that is overflowing with energy, consisting of eight young artists who have been invited to take part in a speeded-up process of creation. What emerges is a cross-section of today’s youth that asks questions about itself, and which, via its exploration of the collective, goes in search of a possible common language, where identities intertwine, confront each other and reinvent themselves.