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An intense and exciting show. A vortex in  whose memory, belonging, family and blood mix in war,  deportations, betrayals, escapes and revenge.
Two parallel stories but  closely intertwined,  that of Branko and that of  his grandfather Nap'apò, two  generations of Roma in this Europe in which the nomadic ethnic groups have lived and still live separate lives, "apart" lives. One generation ended up in concentration camps, the next in Roma camps on the outskirts of big cities.
Branko Hrabal fleeing Hungary takes refuge in a Roma camp in Italy. He carries ten boxes containing what remains of the famous circus inherited from his grandfather.
Circus that had to abruptly stop its activity during the Second World War, when the Nazis first locked up and then exterminated all the artists.
Branko doesn't know what to do with this heavy and cumbersome inheritance. But in the camp he finds a group of curious children who oblige him to tell the story of that circus, which is the story of his family and which is, in synthesis, the history of Europe from which we all descend.
Branko thus finds himself retracing the epic of his own family, from the joy, enchantment and amazement that his grandfather's circus was able to bring around all of Europe, up to escape, deportation, imprisonment and extermination.
Seven children listen to him with eyes full of enchantment and finally find a new hope of redemption and happiness among a trapeze, five clubs and some old costumes. Among the people of the camp who are no longer even able to imagine a tomorrow for themselves and their family, there are still those who can see a possibility of the future: those seven children who transform the story of Branko's family into new energy. and desire for redemption.
Hidden in the cellars of an old abandoned building, inspired by Branko they work hard and eventually manage to create a new circus… their new circus… an underground circus… an upside-down circus.
 

by and with Andrea Lupo
from the novel of the same name by Milena Magnani
directed by Andrea Paolucci
original music by David Sarnelli
light and sound design Andrea Bondi
a Teatro delle Temperie production

winner of the Rome Fringe Festival 2017
as BEST ACTOR
AUDIENCE AWARD
BEST DRAMATURGY
winner of the MAZINGA 1st edition

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