BEFORE THE JOURNEY

Before the journey is a theatre workshop held by Claudio Zappalà, author and director of the Barbe à Papa Teatro company. It is a workshop aimed at actresses, actors, dancers, performers, playwrights, directors, but also theatre collectives and companies. It wants to be a moment of investigation that can guide each of the participants towards the beginning or the continuation of a new story to be told, a new performance to be realised.

Before starting a new artistic quest, I always ask myself two questions: what do I feel the need to investigate? Is it a theme that can be shared with a community?

To answer these two questions, it is necessary to take time for observation. An observation directed within oneself and one directed at the context we inhabit. The workshop is meant to be an opportunity to stop and look around; and to look within. Not a study of the same theme, but a listening to what each of us feels the need to tell, to discover also, if there are common urgencies that bring us closer.

The workshop aims to create a community that, albeit for a short period of time, will work in tune, experiencing the strength of the collective; we will investigate the possibilities offered by the form of dialogue and monologue; we will develop authorial and directorial aptitudes. All Barbe à Papa Teatro performances start from an inner and autobiographical research in relation to the theme studied. Participants will receive the tools to start a research and they will be able to continue it in an indipendently way.