Salām/Shalom – due padri

Thursday 18 December - At 8.45 pm

The show is a necessary testimony to the horror of war in Israel and Palestine. The author, Irish writer Colum McCann, has collected the fragments of a seemingly unsolvable conflict in the thousand and one fragments that make up the novel. The sides of the polygon called apeirogon, from which the book takes its title, are infinite. Just as infinite are the points of view from which two fathers, the Israeli Rami and the Palestinian Bassam - real people whom McCann knew - try to understand a reality too complex to be observed and judged from a single side. Two fathers, brought to the stage by Massimo Somaglino and Alessandro Lussiana, who are united by the same unspeakable anguish over the loss of their daughters, each killed by the other's war; two fathers who had the courage to become men of peace, taking up their shared pain as their only weapon: against the temptation of revenge and the trap of hatred.

Hugging each other, holding hands. Looking into each other's eyes. Listening to each other, above all. Small, normal gestures for normal times. For times of peace. Heroic gestures when the time of war devastates and overwhelms people's lives. The number of sides of the polygon called apeirogon is infinite. The gazes are infinite. Just as infinite and changeable are the things of the world, a place of chaos and risk. Within that chaos, two fathers: the same pain, the same strength. Words of hatred can become words of peace. Let's try to put words into bodies. Let's try to really listen. Let's try. In the geometry of the apeirogon, every place is reachable, every point can be touched even if it seems impossible.

A show by and with Massimo Somaglino

and Alessandro Lussiana

production: CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia and vicino/lontano

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