VORREI UNA VOCE

Description

Written and performed by Tindaro Granata, Vorrei una voce [If I only had a voice] is a show built around the songs of Mina sung in playback and was born from the theatrical project of this Sicilian author and actor in the high security female section of Messina Prison, within the framework of the Il Teatro per Sognare [Theatre to Dream] project. In fact, the dream is the fulcrum of Granata’s dramaturgy: to stop dreaming means letting a part of oneself die. Vorrei una voce is dedicated to all those who have not lost the desire to dream.

In If I only had a voice on stage there will only be me and, of the girls, I’ll bring with me their eyes, their gestures, long and strong hugs, tears and smiles. Thanks to them I will tell stories of people who are seeking a meaningful redemption from life: they want love. Not idealized and romantic love, but love for life, that strong, impetuous, sometimes violent and seemingly senseless drive that enables us to bear everything, to do everything so that our dream can come true.
I will enter and exit each story through Mina’s songs sung in playback, as if to create an imaginary concert made up of different souls, all with a single voice, that of Mina. Just as I used to do when I was little more than a child and I was free to imagine the future and I wasn’t afraid.”
– From Tindaro Granata’s director’s notes