Rumore di acque is a brilliant theatrical narrative, charged with an overwhelming corrosive immediacy. The play is based on the personal experience of Marco Martinelli in Mazara del Vallo, where he staged a performance of Cercatori di tracce, with fifty Tunisian adolescents and ten Sicilians, and is a long, detailed analysis of a contemporary tragedy, the tragedy of desperate Africans fleeing a regime or looking for work, who go to sea in unsafe boats, abandoned by unscrupulous exploiters, and almost drown. Martinelli imagines these shipwrecks washing up on an imaginary island, governed by a cruel Minister of the Interior, who implements a welcoming policy that reduces the dramas and personal tragedies to mere numbers. In this monologue with its black humour, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari and Alessandro Renda, accompanied by the music played live by Fratelli Mancuso, conclude the Ravenna-Mazara 2010 triptych, of two plays and a film, offering a detailed fresco of the ethnic complexity of this Sicilian town, the symbol of the frontier town and the starting point for a fresco of today’s world.
conceived by Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari
with Alessandro Renda
written and directed by Marco Martinelli
original music performed live by Fratelli Mancuso
space, lighting and costumes by Ermanna Montanari, Enrico Isola
Ravenna Festival, Teatro delle Albe-Ravenna Teatro
“Circuito del Mito” della Regione Siciliana / Sensi Contemporanei
