First day of the tour: Mute

It seems easy to be supportive... #1

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How do they laugh in Africa? #2

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Simone, do you want to go to Mozambique? #3

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I am going to Mozambique! But to do what? #4

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The meetings #5

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Where do I start? #6

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Meeting with

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The first contacts with Mozambique #8

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Agenda first mission in Mozambique #9

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First mission: arrival in Maputo #1

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But where am I? #2

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Meeting with Alvim Cossa #3

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Teatro do Oprimido Show #4

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Meeting with the Machaka Association #5

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The Show by the Machaka Group #6

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Manuela Soeiro and the Avenida Theater #7

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Gonçalo Mabunda #8

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Meeting with the Luarte Association #9

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Luarte Show #10

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Maputo - Pemba Journey #11

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Vitor Raposo #12

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Pemba – Palma Trip #13

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Visit to the village of Quionga #14

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Visit to the village of Quirindi #15

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That wonderful beach! #16

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Visit to the village of Pundanhar #17

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The Mamãe Kit #18

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Visit to the hospital in Palma #19

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Return to Italy #20

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The project continues! #1

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How many meetings are we going to have?!? #2

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Agenda second mission in Mozambique #3

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Second mission in Mozambique, arrival at Pemba #4

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Felix Mambucho #5

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Performance Vitor Raposo and the Tambo Tambulani Tambo company #6

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Pemba – Palma Trip #7

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Performances at Palma, on with the casting! No, stop! #8

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Grupo do funzionarios #9

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Performances (and casting) in the village of Pundanhar #10

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Performances (and casting) in the village of Quionga #11

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Selecting the actors for the Italian stages #12

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Are you ready to come to Italy? #13

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The return to Italy and end of the second mission #14

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Preparing for the first training period at Alcatraz #1

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Arrival at the Libera Università di Alcatraz #2

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We begin! #3

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Mario Pirovano #4

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Acting with Mario Pirovano #5

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Arms going up on their own! #6

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A dive into the theatre #7

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Let’s tell a love story! #8

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Being an actor is hard work #9

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What days! #10

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O falso médico! #11

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We all go shopping! #12

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The performance takes shape #13

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We need an ultrasound! #14

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Rome has never been so beautiful! #15

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Second training session: the first day... #1

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The return of the Mozambicans #2

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A tragic day #3

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Memory tests with Mario Pirovano #4

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Rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals… and that script in 3 languages… #5

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First reading of the script in Swahili #6

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Just for a change, we rehearse... #7

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That damned video! #8

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In and around Perugia #9

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The last rehearsals #10

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Action! #11

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Changes to the show? Change the title?!? #1

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Confusion in Fatima’s House #2

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Preparation of the stage design #3

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Ready to go (again)? #1

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Arrival at Pemba #2

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At Palma under the palm trees (wet!) #3

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First day of the tour: Mute #4

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Second day of the tour: Pundanhar #5

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Third day of the tour: Quionga #6

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Fourth day of the tour: Palma #7

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Fifth day of the tour: Olumbe #8

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Thank you Mozambique, thank you so much! #9

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76-primo-spettacolo-mute-14:37 in the morning: I’m not nervous at all!
5:42 in the morning: had a shower, backpack ready. The alarm clock is, ironically, set for 8 am.

Today is the first day of the tour…the tour, this strange single word, understood the whole world over, is about to become reality. In a few hours, in the village of Mute, the Il Teatro Fa Bene theatre company will make its debut, performing “Confusion in Fatima’s house”, written by Jacopo Fo and Mario Pirovano, and acted in Swahili by a group of Mozambican actors, selected and trained to make the rural village populations more aware of maternal-infant health through comedy.

In a few hours all these words will become reality, I can’t believe it, we’ll be going on stage!

I’ve spent the last three months preparing everything, I’ve got hundreds of rolls of adhesive tape, spanners, pliers, the scenery, the health sheets for after the performance, yes, it’s all ready, but the actors? Will the actors be ready?

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10.30 the pick-up loads, the material’s here, the actors too, props present, also speakers. Oliviero’s here! The video troupe is here!

Let’s go.

The ladder, I’ve forgotten the ladder!!!

5.30 pm, just a little after sunset.

It was…it was WOW! What I mean is, we put on the performance! The actors acted, the audience laughed, I changed the scenery, they didn’t throw vegetables, actually the audience arrived as soon as we arrived with the cars, and left when we left. They remained seated, watching us mount the scenery, fit everything, act, dismantle and leave.

It was WOW! Yes, I’m extra excited, extremely happy. There were some mistakes, tomorrow we’ll sort them out, but the audience laughed, they were laughing!!! There were roughly 500 people, lots of children, lots of women: the type of audience we were aiming for!

And when the false doctor Mussa, Adelino Cuba, entered, there were gales of laughter, and from that point the performance took off, it couldn’t have gone any better!

It was wonderful…Who knows why I’m so tired now?!?