A place of safety
Journey to the Central Mediterranean

Kepler-452

year

2025

text

conception Kepler-452
direction and dramaturgy Nicola Borghesi and Enrico Baraldi
with words by Flavio Catalano, Miguel Duarte, Giorgia Linardi, Floriana Pati, José Ricardo Peña

cast

Nicola Borghesi
and Flavio Catalano, Miguel Duarte, Giorgia Linardi, Floriana Pati, José Ricardo Peña

set & lighting design

sets/scenes and costumes Alberto Favretto
lighting design Maria Domènech

music

sound and music Massimo Carozzi

additional details

movement consultant Marta Ciappina
assistant director Roberta Gabriele

production

Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Teatro Metastasio di Prato, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Théâtre des 13 vents CDN Montpellier (France)
in collaboration with Sea-Watch and EMERGENCY

The project enjoys the support of the Culture Moves Europe call for proposals, funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut

photo Sea-Watch Vic Harster

An Italian theatre company boards the ship of a German NGO, Sea-Watch, rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. They do not know what they are looking for, they only know that In that point of time and space, the heart of the Mediterranean in the heart of the hottest summer in history, attract them in an irresistible way. They will witness the rescue of a group of people along the deadliest migration route in the world. Starting from this experience they will try to tell on stage what happened, what they thought, what they discovered, about themselves and the world.

On stage, together with an actor who has seen what happens in the center of the Mediterranean with his own eyes, what remains of a journey when the journey is over: people, images, sounds, fears, enthusiasm, wounds.

The question that drives us, both artistic and political, is: how do you represent the unreasonable? Or, again, how do you stage what is obscene?

Right now that the Mediterranean risks becoming a blind spot of our consciousness, A place of safety, wants to be a spark of attention on the removed collective of our continent.

After all, an intimate discourse on what Europe would like to be, on what it is not, on what it could be.