Carrozzeria Orfeo returns to Bergamo, again for the Donizetti Theatre Foundation's Altri Percorsi series: after Miracoli Metropolitani, set in an old auto body shop adapted as a kitchen and presented at the Teatro Sociale in 2023, the Upper City theater hosts Thursday, Jan. 15 (8:30 p.m.) We will save the world before dawn, a show that unfailingly reflects the company's unprejudiced and brilliant spirit. The show is not suitable for audiences under the age of 14. We'll Save the World Before Sunrise is an account of the lives of some of the guests in a luxury rehabilitation clinic located on a satellite in space, a new tourist destination for the super-rich, specializing in the treatment of contemporary addictions-sexual, emotional, work, psychotropic drugs. They are all victims of these and their own selfishness, products of a world where words like community and kindness are almost entirely banished except to be exploited for propaganda and commercial purposes. What is left is a confused and frightened humanity, overwhelmed by the obsession with this constant having to sell yourself, with the terror that no one will ever want to buy you. "After having explored in several shows the world of the last, the outcasts, the excluded and the losers, in this new production we intend to investigate the world of affluence and apparent success, through the narrative of the first, the winners, the ruling class, the rich, paradoxically, however, imprisoned in the same vortex of asphyxiating responsibilities, castrating duties, guilt and unhappiness that belong to everyone and, therefore, shattered by everything that the capitalist mentality cannot buy: self-love, purity of feelings, sincere affections, the search for authentic meaning in existence," Gabriele Di Luca specifies in the dramaturgy notes. All of this is explored in full Carrozzeria Orfeo style, "thanks to an eye that is always lucid and, perhaps, disillusioned, which intends to capture, with irony and even extreme fun, the paradoxes, contradictions and grotesque deformations of reality through characters overflowing with humanity, irony and pain. The show, after all, wants to tell about a society that is increasingly sad, yet, saturated with happy pictures in which there no longer seems to be a place where we can recognize ourselves as authentic subjects, let alone in social projects that require our dedication and loyalty." Carrozzeria Orfeo, formed in Mantua in 2007, has since its inception expressed its creative urgency inspired by a strongly "Pop" artistic ideal, popular, in the highest sense of the term; that is, a theater that thinks of the spectator from its conception and writing, with stories that wish to trigger reflections on the present in order to investigate, not without depth and fun, the crucial nodes of human existence. The company's primary need is to offer theater that is adherent to the themes of reality precisely in order to problematize anthropologically foundational nodes and intercept the most fragile intimacy of the spectators. The goal is to bring more and more audiences to the theater, demonstrating that civic and social engagement can