CIVIL READINGS – PROSSIMI APPUNTAMENTI:
IN THE PINK
Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
at Spazio Polline – Milan
Una pletora di donne eterogenea per età, estrazione sociale e provenienza geografica, ricolora il rosa, ridisegnando il genere e gli stereotipi ad esso associati. Attraverso un caleidoscopio di ruoli femminili, il testo esplora, con comicità e crudeltà, le dinamiche di potere che condizionano la comprensione identitaria del Sé, attraverso il linguaggio, l’economia, la cultura.
Il pubblico è invitato ad assistere all’ unitarietà frammentata di un coro che rivendica la propria presenza tra le pagine della Storia. E che la Storia ha cancellato.
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What is oil for?
In a sea of waiting and silence that neither of them could name, the meeting between the boy and the adult becomes an oil stain: a shadow that expands in each of them, forever changing who they thought they were. The staged reading will be held Sunday, December 14th at 4:00 pm at Spazio Polline – Milan.
CAST
SYNOPSIS
Where is the line between victim and executioner?
Two voices. Two eras. Two solitudes touch and intertwine. A boy from 1992 and a professor from 2025 converse across time, evoking memories, failures, desires, and wounds. The two meet through a series of private tutoring sessions. The boy seeks listening and recognition; the professor, consumed by the past and unable to process his own failures, transforms that relationship into an emotional playground.
A bond develops between the two that runs through the pages, one voice reflecting the other, a dialogue between a boy who longs to grow up and an adult who has never been a boy. They are bound by water: the sea of childhood, the pools of competitive sports, the fluid matter of science and memory. But over that water looms the black shadow of oil: a viscous substance, a symbol of distorted growth, of a contaminated world, of a conscience that finds no redemption. A drop of oil can infect the sea, just as a gesture can transform and corrode someone's life forever. What remains is a body that is no longer the same, a tainted conscience, a sea that will never be clear again.
What's the Use of Oil? is a poetic and disturbing text that attempts to explore the vulnerability of adolescence, the power of words, the weight of gestures. A text that neither condemns nor absolves, but forces the viewer to look where we often prefer to look away.