An attic, an unstable light, objects piled up and assembled, improbable mechanisms, a man, Plato .

Plato seems to have always lived alone in this universe, where his inventions shape his daily life and his relationships. Like everyone, he has built his own routine, his duties and obligations, his pastimes, his relationships, his alter ego.

It moves and evolves in this reality, where it creates daily life energy and where each object becomes part of a vital ritual.

Reality is made up of things we know and the idea we build of them.

But what if Plato discovers the outside world and humans?

This theatrical performance intertwines mime and circus arts to offer a poetic and amusing transposition of the allegory of the cave , a myth presented by Plato in Book VII of the Republic .

Indeed "Plato"  he takes up with humor and sensitivity the beacon theme of the allegory, the perception of reality and its transmission.

Andrea Menozzi , the only actor on stage, reinterprets every object, every movement, in order to convey Plato's reality to the public.

"Plato" was born from the collaboration between the Bismantova Theater , the Parpignol Theater and the Compagnia Circolabile , and from the study of two texts: in addition to  " La Repubblica " by Plato, also " The Invisible Cities " by Italo Calvino.

How the Great Khan built in his imagination the cities that Marco Polo described to him, Plato  he composes with his fantasy, his out of phase universe, to offer it to the incredulous eyes of the public.

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with  Andrea Menozzi

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