Winner of the 1997/98 Stregagatto Prize
A performance for audiences aged 6 and above

Romanzo d’infanzia (Childhood Novel) is a performance in which the language of dance-theatre, normally reserved for a not very young audience, here it is proposed in a more narrative and immediate format so as to make it enjoyable also by children. Childhood is the diamond of our lives, it is rough and dazzling. It can be chipped and the power of its light dimmed. And is that bad? I don’t know, but it hurts, very badly.

If it is true that with love one can go mad, it is even more true that without love one becomes mad and unhappy. And what a disaster children are without love or with too much love. 
Among the eternally weak are children.
We believe that diversity is a right that must be asserted in every age and in every country. In short, it is always time to be on the side of the loser, the weaker. From these assumptions derives a working method that influences and defines above all the dramaturgy and the work with the dancer-actors, who are considered more important than the character, the text and bearers of precious, living human material.

This work speaks of childhood discomfort within primary-affective relationships, of the physical and psychological violence that childhood suffers at home or in institutions, of the crime of not listening to one’s children, of guilt without guilt. A dedication to all those who cannot do without love.
 Romanzo d’infanzia is a play of particular intensity and poetry, multi-award winning and acclaimed in Italy and abroad for 25 years (ETI/STREGAGATTO award 1997/98). A cult show of the Abbondanza/Bertoni Company with over 600 performances.

It moves adults and makes children laugh, which is why their presence is strongly requested, as it is a creation created especially for a young audience.

Duration: 55′