“Origami. Paper Waiting” is the name of the next show on stage at the Teatro Tram in Naples from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 April.
In the hall on Via Port'Alba, the debut of a text (original dramaturgy by Chiara Di Bernardo) that opens on the platform of a station where the protagonists – Daria D'Amore (who is also the director), Chiara Di Bernardo, Luigi Leone and Riccardo Sergio – will spend the night.
It all starts at 17,30:17,48 p.m.: a young street artist, a homeless woman on the edge of the yellow line, a boy with a bouquet of flowers in his hand and an eccentric stranger. A strong storm arrives: the words of circumstance soon give way to strange confidences. The intention of three characters is to throw themselves under the passing train at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. The bad weather, the strange announcements on the loudspeaker, the diligent controllers, the sudden demonstrations, cause delays in the rides.
They don't know each other, they simply wait for a train to throw themselves under, and they argue or help each other, they compare. There are a thousand origami that, according to legend, must be folded to make a wish come true, who knows how many wishes our characters hide. It is, in the text, a disarming clarity that leads the characters to not being able to stand it. But the fight is there even here, it is an instinct to survive, that's why the ending is open, we cannot condemn either one choice or the other.
A train, the quintessential symbol of travel, accompanies the audience on this journey, the wait for a connection and a train in transit. Trains in transit are the scariest. Here is the yellow line and how many dared to cross it: What went through their minds? What did they hear? What courage did they have? These questions are so similar to Dorothy's shortcomings (a brainless Scarecrow, a heartless Tin Man, a courageless Lion) that the yellow line has become the yellow brick road, the loudspeaker is the deceptive Wizard of Oz, and everyone around seems to be headed to the Emerald City.
"Origami – Paper Waiting attempts, in a delicate moment like this, to exorcise fears and thoughts that perhaps, just perhaps, have stopped at everyone's station, at least once, " explains director Daria D'Amore. " Our story begins within the walls of the home of three young people, at the limit of endurance. We glimpse their lives, we sense their difficulties, but we only manage to see the tip of these icebergs. This is what happens in everyday life, because 'we're all a little strange, deep down.' Deep down, however, there is no strangeness, there is only a desire, that desire, which we put to sleep on a bench, with a ticket in hand, in the rain, waiting for a train.
What is the price of return? When do you really grow up? This text does not carry a moral, it is an excuse to talk about suicide. The Wizard of Oz is an excuse, the station is an excuse, the house in the suburbs is an excuse, it is an excuse to apologize to our desires for all the times we cross that damned yellow line.
