Teatro delle Ariette company on tour in France
Teatro delle Ariette company is back on tour and takes the performance Natural Theatre? Me, the couscous, and Albert Camus in France, where the Théâtre du Nord, Lille/ Théâtre de l'Idéal, Tourcoing invites its audience to share this experience of “theatre around the table” from May 19 to 23 – but with COVID-19 secure procedures in place.
Natural Theatre? is a show where past and present are connected and confused in order «to talk about today», as we read in Stefano Pasquini’s direction notes.
Pasquini tells an autobiographic story of his youth, full of journeys –from Bologna to countries bordering the Mediterranean: France, Spain, Algeria–, discoveries and meetings, romantic as well. And just the girl he falls in love with lets him taste couscous for the first time and gives him Albert Camus’ The Stranger, a book that will become a symbol for him.
As usual in the Ariette’s performances, during the show food is prepared, and this time it is not an Italian dish but – as Pasquini teaches us –, «couscous and pasta are really the same thing for me: tastes of memories that live in the present».