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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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The meetings with Jacopo are usually held right where Jacopo is, I mean  I go to him. But today the appointment is at my house, he is coming to me!

Is there a rumor  going around that I’m weird?

That hard drive in the brain is still full. In a certain sense I haven’t finished my mission yet, I can finally tell Jacopo about it.

And the adventure starts again! 2 seconds and 33 fractions of a second later I am back in Africa, I go in order, I go over all the meetings again, one by one, I tell about the two shows by the two guys of Machaka and the show by Alvim Cossa’s  company. Then there was the Luarte group, fortunately there are the photos because it is hard to find the words, I have prepared a speech, but only the beginning, we met many people, visited two different countries, Mozambique of Maputo, the capital , and Mozambique of the villages of the District of Palma, to the north.

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Jacopo constantly asks me what I think of the actors we’ve seen, of the performances, of the atmosphere, of the reactions of the public.

I answer that the Machaka touched our souls, creating a beautiful situation with a wild audience. Luarte had the best interaction with the public, even if dealing with a difficult subject like sexual advances in schools, the students were laughing, shouting, participating.

I say that we were welcome by everyone. In some situations, I admit, I felt uncomfortable, but then I saw the smiles, their dignity, the  strength  to build amazing things  such as a disco with few resources at disposal.

There are  lot of questions I cannot answer. We did not have the opportunity to watch live theatrical performances in Palma or in the villages, we only saw something in Maputo.

We know that there are theater groups in Palma, mainly scholastic ones, but we do not know what they tell, what stories they write or how they perform them.

In the next mission in Mozambique we will have to go around the opposite direction: start from the villages asking to see the groups at work and then go to Maputo.

It is a few minutes past 5 p.m., Jacopo arrived at 2 p.m. and he has just left. We have made the lineup of the coming work: research on local stories and on the people of northern Mozambique, program and agenda of the next mission. Meanwhile, Jacopo said, let’s just start to think about it …