First reading of the script in Swahili

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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In addition to Johara, who translates into Portuguese and at this point is the mainstay of the project, we also have Albert, the Swahili interpreter, with us during this training session. He is translating the script and today, for the first time, he reads a part to us.

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I want to see the reaction of the Mozambicans, their faces, and above all see if they recognise the story they have been rehearsing and rehearsing again until they collapse.

I sit beside Ana Bela, who follows the words in the Portuguese script with her finger.

The scene: Albert speaking in Swahili, Ana Bela making me follow the script in Portuguese, and Mario Pirovano making comments in Italian.

Babel!

And if you want to know what Swahili is like, I can tell you that it’s all “awininani abidibi adissi wikinahaminini iwinini”. Incomprehensible.

Mario doesn’t want me to publish it, but I took a photo while they were going over the words in Swahili, and you should see his perplexed face!

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Happy birthday, Adelino! Today it’s the birthday of Adelino (junior), the famous rapper from Palma whose stage name is Mr. Kedo. So we give him a gift of two Italian rap CDs, one is J-Ax, and please forgive me if I don’t even name the other…

Obviously we sing. Us, “Happy birthday” in Italian, them “Happy birthday” in Portuguese, then we look at each other. We don’t have any more songs for birthdays, but they do, and they begin, 4 songs in a row to celebrate Adelino’s birthday, everyone clapping and playing with their voices.

Then Mr. Kedo sings a rap, written by him, that tells about him.

And they say that a genetic predisposition for art doesn’t exist!

10 pm. I roam around the corridors where the Mozambicans’ rooms are. I had pleaded with them all to read the script aloud before going to sleep and yes, they’re doing it!

11 pm. They’re still reading. I think they are all together in the same room and have prepared a kind of set because I hear things moving, chairs, beds…

11.30 pm. The set is dismantled. Tam, pitum, sgrsshhh….