Corrado and Camilla Tedeschi at Bracco with "Uphill Start"

At the Bracco Theater on Via Tarsia, the season continues with intelligent drama and biting irony, with Gianni Clementi's "Partenza in salita," a sharp and surprisingly tender comedy starring Corrado Tedeschi and Camilla Tedeschi, directed by Marco Rampoldi and Tedeschi himself.

The show will be performed in the theater, sensitively led by Caterina De Santis, from Thursday, January 15th to Sunday, January 18th (Thursday and Friday at 9:00 PM, Saturday at 7:30 PM, Sunday at 6:30 PM). Clementi constructs a seemingly light-hearted theatrical device, starting from a universally shared situation: the infamous uphill start, the nightmare of every new driver.

But theater, as we know, loves metaphors, and here the automotive metaphor becomes immediately existential. Because if it's not easy to coordinate clutch, accelerator, and cool head, it's even more complex to face the open sea of ​​life when you're just eighteen and the future knocks impatiently.

Complicating the journey is a father who improvises as a driving instructor: anxious, authoritarian, and immature enough to turn a simple lesson into an emotional minefield. A fierce generational duel ensues, filled with jokes, silences, exposed nerves, and sudden confessions, where the car becomes a closed and revealing space, a sort of moving (or rather, often stationary) truth booth.

The hour of driving thus becomes a chance, perhaps a unique one, to truly look at one another, to tell one another what we've never had the courage to admit. Through laughter and moments of disarming authenticity, "Uphill Start" takes the viewer on a journey that entertains and moves, reminding us that growing up, like driving, requires balance, listening, and the ability to not stall the engine at the steepest point of the road.