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César Brie – Roberto Scarpetti

Prima della bomba

by Roberto Scarpetti
direction César Brie
with Andrea Bettaglio, Catia Caramia, Massimiliano Donato, Marco Rizzo, Umberto Terruso
assistent direction Elisabetta Carosio
music Pablo Brie
scene and costumes Giancarlo Gentilucci
assistente scene and costumes Daniela Vespa
artistic residence Arti e Spettacolo
production Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale e Campo Teatrale
with the support of Roma Capitale, within the frame of  the events organised on the occasion of Giubileo della Misericordia
in collaboration with Short Theatre 11

In a crowded subway of a big city, David, a good boy, covered by the hood of his sweatshirt, is ready to blow themselves up.
Before the bomb he investigates and goes in search of the reasons and the causes that led the young man to convert to Islam, to carry the bomb with his friends Karim and Rafiq, respectively, an Italian converted and an Afghan fundamentalist, and to blow themselves up air. A journey within a conversion that tacked to a more radical and fundamentalist belief, a personal and ideological crisis of those who wanted to change the world believing that it was implementing a new Shoah, with Muslims instead of Jews and with the West to play the part of the Nazis.
The ideological framework is very accurate and the propaganda seems to have taken hold of someone like David, thought of wanting to change the world.
How many civilians, men, women and children, are killed every day by US drones? How many innocent Muslims die in vain?
Because of that David, Karim and Rafiq feel they have to do something, they have to help their Muslim brothers in the name of the Ummah, the Islamic nation.
Prima della bomba comes from a series of questions: What Europeans young find in Islam that they can not find in their culture of origin?
Our conformist Western societies can give a new space to the youth dissent?
Or maybe these young people are forced to seek in distant cultures from the West a vent to their desire to change the world?
It is a show that reflects more than ever on the sense of belonging, on the need to feel involved in something, on young people and cultural and religious differences between East and West.

BIOGRAPHY

Roberto Scarpetti is the author of Viva Italy, the deaths of Fausto Iaio that is the text with which he won the Special Mention Franco Quadri to Riccione Prize 2011, the Franco Enriquez Prize 2014 for the drama, was nominated as the author of the award to Italian news masks of the Italian Theatre in 2015 , and in January 2016 was broadcast on France Culture radio version.
He is the author of Rome/East was staged in 2014 and in 2015 at the Teatro Argentina in the collective show Portrait of a capital city, conceived by Antonio Calbi and Fabrizio Arcuri.
He wrote the screenplay for the Summer games, the films presented at the 68th International Venice Film Festival, where he won in 2012 the Quartz Swiss Film Prize for Best Screenplay.
Since 2011 he is member of the jury of the prize Franco Solinas.

César Brie is an argentine actor and director, founder in 1972 of the Comuna Baires, is forced to self-exile in Milan in 1974 because of persecution made by the military dictatorship.
After 1975 creates the theatrical Collective Tupac Amaru in Milan, among the shows produced there is Hey with Danio Manfredini.
Following the experience in the group Farfa and nell’Odin Teatret, he founded in Bolivia the Teatro de Los Andes, with which produces exemplary works that depart from history or classics and fell deeply in actuality (like Romeo and Juliet, in Ubu Bolivia, Only fools die of love, inside a yellow sun, Fragile, Otra vez Marcelo, The Iliad, Odyssey).
In 2010 he leaves from Bolivia because of the death threats received after his documentary Tahuamanu (which reveals what really happened on September 11, 2008 in Bolivia).
He currently lives and works in Italy as a teacher and as a writer/actor/director, among his works: The sea in your pocket, Tree without shade, 120 pounds of jazz, Karamazov, The Old Prince, Painless, Viva Italy.