Il Risveglio - L’éveil

Rise, you dead, the alarm has sounded! Faced with a world that is rumbling, let us not be defeated and let us force ourselves to live—or live again. Pippo Delbono says so; he is also the embodiment of it. To rise again, one must have fallen. Pippo Delbono knows this better than anyone, having been crushed by grief at the death of his partner. So, unusually, the author, actor and director tells of his fears and anxieties, drowned in the melancholy of a cello. It is as sad as a funeral march, as sad as the war, suffering and pain surrounding us. Should we sink or wake up? Pippo Delbono has chosen. Little by little, the music becomes joyful, dance takes possession of the bodies, carrying us—still groggy—into the whirlwind of life. Like an Italian Renaissance. Concept and direction: Pippo Delbono With Dolly Albertin, Margherita Clemente, Pippo Delbono, Ilaria Distante, Mario Intruglio, Nelson Lariccia, Gianni Parenti, Pepe Robledo, Grazia Spinella, and Giovanni Ricciardi (cello and musical arrangements)