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Théatre National > Grande Salle
Il piccolo paese
Ascanio Celestini
Italy
“Words are more important than actions, and I often laugh when I hear someone shout out that trendy slogan: Not words, actions! There is nothing more inconsistent than an action. It passes. A word stays. Actions: even a dog could do as much." (Joseph Roth). The micro-tales from Piccolo paese (The small country) bring words together, not facts, like a group of songs dealing with a single place on a concept album. Sometimes nothing happens. The characters have no names, and relationships are virtually non-existent. A mechanism that jams up is the only event that occurs. There are words that become simple, like the wheels of a gear, like the nails that hold pieces of wood together.