PROJECT
Recipients: teenagers from the Triggio neighborhood; participants of the permanent social workshop of the Magnifico Visbaal Teatro

The artists will work from a practice developed with the Brussels based collective ‘TransfoCollect’, that starts from who the performers are as human beings. What keeps them up at night, what makes them angry? Considering that the human being is not a ‘single story’ but has many sides to explore. For the research in Italy the starting point will be the book “Home around the world” by the photographer Elliott Erwitt, who travels to different places around the world to capture the meaning of life. We will think about what home means: What happens if you need to leave your home? In several dictionaries, home is referred to as a place but can home also be a feeling, or a person?

AXELLE VERKEMPINCK AND FARBOD FATHINEJADFARD
Belgium

Both studied at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound and are part of the TransfoCollect theatre collective, with which they experiment with forms of participatory theatre. In his creations, Verkempinck focuses on power relations, giving a voice to those who have none. Since 2021, he has been working as a coach for Magma, a new participatory workspace. Fathinejadfard is an actor and director, engaged with Bezet La Monnaie Occupée, a situationist movement born in the time of Covid. He is currently working on the artistic research of “The Revolution will not be televised”, about the power of images and the effect on our society.

PEPPE FONZO
Benevento

Peppe Fonzo is an actor, director, theatre playwright. He graduated from Dams in Bologna with a thesis on experimental theatre in the 90s. During his training he met several teachers such as Enrique Vargas of the Teatro de Los Sentidos, Ruggero Cappuccio, Franco Scaldati, Claudio Di Palma, Laura Curino. He participated in the master course Techné (artistic direction of Ruggero Cappuccio), specializing as a theatrical operator in areas of discomfort. He manages the Magnifico Visbaal Teatro in Benevento and is the artistic director of the Magnifico Teatro contemporary theatre review, which has not reached its seventh edition.

THE CONTEXT
Magnifico Visbaal Teatro

The Magnifico Visbaal Teatro was born in 2005 in Benevento. The group carries out research that ranges between theatre and various sounds, even in unconventional spaces. In addition to theatrical events, it carries out social and educational projects, in collaboration with institutions, public and private bodies. In 2013, it inaugurated the theatre hall, which hosted – and still hosts – world-class companies. In 2015, the theatre was destroyed by a terrible flood and, after two years, the company managed with great efforts to move the venue to another place. Today, it is considered a cultural garrison present in the Samnite and Campania territory in a constant and widespread manner.