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“Don’t call me Hero” by Instabili Vaganti

The new episode of the web theatre-series “8 ½ Theatre Clips” is dedicated to medical health staff

After the success of the first three episodes, Instabili Vaganti theatre company is back on virtual stage with Don’t call me Hero, the fourth of the web theatre-series 8 ½ Theatre Clips - How the pandemic changed our lives in 8 and half episodes.

The series is an Italy-Iran coproduction Anna Dora Dorno and Nicola Pianzola made in collaboration with Iranian Don Quixotte theatre company and with the support by the Embassy of Italy in Teheran.
In eight short films and a final talk, the authors investigate some of the themes characterizing the difficult moment of our history we all are living.

The new video performance is a tribute to medical health staff worldwide.

Don’t call me Hero is written and directed by Anna Dora Dorno and performed by Nicola Pianzola, with the participation of famous Iranian mime Danial Kheirkhah, directed by Ali Shams.

In this performance, actors are 'narrating tools' of the medical health staff’s sacrifice in the global struggle against an invisible enemy, and at the same time, against their own fear.

The script is expressed through a bilingual dialogue in Italian and Farsi language, interpretation through different performing arts techniques (mime, dance, object and visual theatre, masks), so generating a narration based on the performers’ physicality.

8 ½ Theatre Clips is part of a larger research project of video creations, "Beyond Borders", shared with many artists from other countries: beside Iran, India, China, Spain, Turkey, United States.

Don’t call me Hero, and previous episodes The Notes of Absence, The Night Shift, Beyond the Mirror, are available on the Embassy of Italy in Teheran's and Instabili Vaganti's social media channels.

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