Christmas at the Cupiello’s

Show for actor cum figuris

The project is the brainchild of Luca Saccoia and Vincenzo Ambrosino, who took shape from a meeting with myself and set designer Tiziano Fario.
The nativity scene is the horizon within which the entire work moves, both in a real and metaphorical sense, the nativity scene is the element Luca Cupiello needs in order to hope for a renewed and conflict-free humanity, but it is also the representation of birth and death, the passage from the old to the new, the time of the passage from the old to the new, the time of the passage from the old to the new, the time of the passage from the old to the new, the time of the passage from the old to the new; the time of passage from the old to the new, è the mixture of past and present, è a consolidated iconography and at the same time to be continuously deconstructed, the Nativity scene is rebuilt every year, è cyclical like the seasons, it can be liked or disliked.
&It is precisely from this last statement that we started, what has become of Tommasino, “Nennillo”, as his mother calls him, considering him an eternal child? How was he transformed after that fateful “yes” on his father's deathbed?
We have tried to give substance to these answers by imagining that Tommasino said that “yes” convinced, that from then on, there had to be a change, thinking that it was not just a way of pleasing his dying father, but that it was the beginning of a new path, of a birth, just as the Nativity scene tells us.
Hence Tommasino becomes the interpreter, in his own way, of a tradition; here he is the witness of a ritual and a re-enactment of comic and tragic family events that have marked his life and the lives of those who take part in the performance.
To do this, to make the ritual repeatable, Tommasino uses puppets, figures that come back to life inside his dreams/nightmares, that continue to reappear every year like the Nativity and its shepherds. He allows himself to be surprised once again by the stories they tell, he takes part in them, provides them with jokes, and rekindles Luca Cupiello's dream of smoothing out conflicts through the ritual of the Nativity scene.

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