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Tindaro Granata

Teatro

La nuova regia

Produzione LAC

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1 hour 15 minutes

Teatro Foce

Past event

11 January 2024

20:30

World premiere

11.01.2024

LAC Lugano

Tournée

08.04.2027

Nuovo Teatro Faraggiana - Novara, Italia

10–11.03.2027

Teatro degli Impavidi - Sarzana (SP), Italia

06.03.2027

Teatro di Vimercate (MB), Italia

01–03.03.2027

Teatro Borsoni - Brescia, Italia

27–28.02.2027

Teatro Civico – Schio (VI), Italia

26.02.2027

Auditorium Comisso – Zero Branco (TV), Italia

25.02.2027

Teatro Rasi – Ravenna, Italia

09–14.02.2027

Teatro India / Teatro di Roma, Italia

30.01.2027

Teatro Garibaldi – Settimo Torinese (TO), Italia

13.01.2027

Teatro Dadà / ERT – Castelfranco E. (MO), Italia

07.11.2026

Teatro Nazionale della Toscana – Rifredi (FI), Italia

24.07.2026

Sciaranuova Festival - Sciaranuova (CT), Italia

02.07.2026

Urbino (PU), Italia

30.06.2026

DRIFest 2026 – Rutigliano (BA), Italia

08.05.2026

Teatro Manzoni di Monza, Italia

29.03.2026

Teatro Italia – Lonato del Garda (BS), Italia

28.03.2026

Teatro Santuccio – Varese, Italia

27.03.2026

Teatro Sociale – Como, Italia

26.03.2026

Teatro Modus di Verona, Italia 

25.03.2026

FTS/Teatro Giotto – Borgo San Lorenzo (FI), Italia

22.03.2026

Spazio Kor – Asti, Italia

13–14.03.2026

Palco Off – Catania, Italia

12.03.2026

Spazio Franco – Palermo, Italia

08.03.2026

Teatro Ponchielli – Cremona, Italia

07.03.2026

Teatro Gonzaga di Novellara (RE), Italia

06.03.2026

Teatro di Bonate Sopra (BG), Italia 

05.03.2026

Arteven / Teatro di Mirano (VE)

09.01.2026

Teatro Verdi – Pordenone, Italia

16.12.2025

TRAC Festival – La Spezia, Italia

15.12.2025

Auditorium Melotti – Rovereto (TN), Italia

05.07.2025

Aria Aperta Teatro Festival, Salvaterra (RE)

27.06.2025

Aria Aperta Teatro Festival, Casalgrande (RE)

26.06.2025

Inequilibrio Festival, Castello Pasquini Armunia

07.06.2025

AMAT, Teatro della Fortuna di Fano (PU)

28.05.2025

LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Teatro Foce di Lugano

08–09.05.2025

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28.04.2025

Casa Circondariale di Lecce

24.04.2025

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23.04.2025

Teatro di Chiari (BS)

17.04.2025

Spazio EffeBi 19, Felina (RE)

15–16.04.2025

Teatro di Rifredi, Firenze

11–13.04.2025

Casa del Contemporaneo di Assoli, Napoli

09.04.2025

Teatro dei Servi, Massa

08.04.2025

Festival Parole a Confine, Auditorium di Piovene Rocchette (VI)

07.12.2024

Teatro Valle dei Laghi, Vezzano (TN)

03.12.2024

Teatro Giuditta Pasta, Saronno (VA)

30.11.2024

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29.11.2024

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28.11.2024

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24.11.2024

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23.11.2024

Teatro Ferrari, Camposampiero (PD)

22.11.2024

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12–14.11.2024

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29.10.2024

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25.10.2024

Teatro dell'Arca, Carcere di Marassi, Genova

18.10.2024

Teatro Filodrammatici, Piacenza – L’Altro Festival

15–16.10.2024

Teatro Nazionale di Genova, Sala Mercato, Genova XX Edizione Festival Eccellenza al Femminile

12–13.10.2024

Teatro Biagi D'Antona, Castelmaggiore (BO)

21.08.2024

Ginesio Fest, San Ginesio

07.08.2024

Tindari Festival

19.06.2024

Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri, Gualtieri

18.06.2024

PratoEstate, Prato

17.06.2024

Teatri di Confine, Pistoia

16.06.2024

Narni Città Teatro, Narni

29.05.2024

Primavera dei Teatri, Castrovillari

21–26.05.2024

Teatro Elfo Puccini, Milano

18.01.2024

Teatro Marconi di Calcinato, (Brescia)

17.01.2024

Teatro delle Ali di Breno, (Brescia)

16.01.2024

Teatro Comunale Odeon di Lumezzane (Brescia)

I'd like an entry

Tindaro Granata

Teatro

La nuova regia

Produzione LAC

© LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura – Foto Masiar Pasquali

1 hour 15 minutes

Teatro Foce

Past event

11 January 2024

20:30

World premiere

11.01.2024

LAC Lugano

Tournée

08.04.2027

Nuovo Teatro Faraggiana - Novara, Italia

10–11.03.2027

Teatro degli Impavidi - Sarzana (SP), Italia

06.03.2027

Teatro di Vimercate (MB), Italia

01–03.03.2027

Teatro Borsoni - Brescia, Italia

27–28.02.2027

Teatro Civico – Schio (VI), Italia

26.02.2027

Auditorium Comisso – Zero Branco (TV), Italia

25.02.2027

Teatro Rasi – Ravenna, Italia

09–14.02.2027

Teatro India / Teatro di Roma, Italia

30.01.2027

Teatro Garibaldi – Settimo Torinese (TO), Italia

13.01.2027

Teatro Dadà / ERT – Castelfranco E. (MO), Italia

07.11.2026

Teatro Nazionale della Toscana – Rifredi (FI), Italia

24.07.2026

Sciaranuova Festival - Sciaranuova (CT), Italia

02.07.2026

Urbino (PU), Italia

30.06.2026

DRIFest 2026 – Rutigliano (BA), Italia

08.05.2026

Teatro Manzoni di Monza, Italia

29.03.2026

Teatro Italia – Lonato del Garda (BS), Italia

28.03.2026

Teatro Santuccio – Varese, Italia

27.03.2026

Teatro Sociale – Como, Italia

26.03.2026

Teatro Modus di Verona, Italia 

25.03.2026

FTS/Teatro Giotto – Borgo San Lorenzo (FI), Italia

22.03.2026

Spazio Kor – Asti, Italia

13–14.03.2026

Palco Off – Catania, Italia

12.03.2026

Spazio Franco – Palermo, Italia

08.03.2026

Teatro Ponchielli – Cremona, Italia

07.03.2026

Teatro Gonzaga di Novellara (RE), Italia

06.03.2026

Teatro di Bonate Sopra (BG), Italia 

05.03.2026

Arteven / Teatro di Mirano (VE)

09.01.2026

Teatro Verdi – Pordenone, Italia

16.12.2025

TRAC Festival – La Spezia, Italia

15.12.2025

Auditorium Melotti – Rovereto (TN), Italia

05.07.2025

Aria Aperta Teatro Festival, Salvaterra (RE)

27.06.2025

Aria Aperta Teatro Festival, Casalgrande (RE)

26.06.2025

Inequilibrio Festival, Castello Pasquini Armunia

07.06.2025

AMAT, Teatro della Fortuna di Fano (PU)

28.05.2025

LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Teatro Foce di Lugano

08–09.05.2025

Cubo Teatro, Torino

28.04.2025

Casa Circondariale di Lecce

24.04.2025

Teatro Turroni, Sogliano al Rubicone (FC)

23.04.2025

Teatro di Chiari (BS)

17.04.2025

Spazio EffeBi 19, Felina (RE)

15–16.04.2025

Teatro di Rifredi, Firenze

11–13.04.2025

Casa del Contemporaneo di Assoli, Napoli

09.04.2025

Teatro dei Servi, Massa

08.04.2025

Festival Parole a Confine, Auditorium di Piovene Rocchette (VI)

07.12.2024

Teatro Valle dei Laghi, Vezzano (TN)

03.12.2024

Teatro Giuditta Pasta, Saronno (VA)

30.11.2024

Teatro di Ragazzola, Roccabianca (PR)

29.11.2024

Teatro di San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR)

28.11.2024

Teatro di Calcinato (BS)

24.11.2024

Teatro degli Animosi, Carrara

23.11.2024

Teatro Ferrari, Camposampiero (PD)

22.11.2024

Teatro Astra, Vicenza

12–14.11.2024

Sala Umberto, Roma

29.10.2024

Cocorico, Riccione

25.10.2024

Teatro dell'Arca, Carcere di Marassi, Genova

18.10.2024

Teatro Filodrammatici, Piacenza – L’Altro Festival

15–16.10.2024

Teatro Nazionale di Genova, Sala Mercato, Genova XX Edizione Festival Eccellenza al Femminile

12–13.10.2024

Teatro Biagi D'Antona, Castelmaggiore (BO)

21.08.2024

Ginesio Fest, San Ginesio

07.08.2024

Tindari Festival

19.06.2024

Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri, Gualtieri

18.06.2024

PratoEstate, Prato

17.06.2024

Teatri di Confine, Pistoia

16.06.2024

Narni Città Teatro, Narni

29.05.2024

Primavera dei Teatri, Castrovillari

21–26.05.2024

Teatro Elfo Puccini, Milano

18.01.2024

Teatro Marconi di Calcinato, (Brescia)

17.01.2024

Teatro delle Ali di Breno, (Brescia)

16.01.2024

Teatro Comunale Odeon di Lumezzane (Brescia)

Written and performed by Tindaro Granata, *Vorrei una voce* is a monologue-style performance built around Mina’s songs sung via playback, and is deeply inspired by the Sicilian author and actor’s long-standing theatrical work at the Piccolo Shakespeare Theater within the Messina Correctional Facility with high-security female inmates, as part of the project *Il Teatro per Sognare*. The central theme of the play is dreaming: losing the ability to dream means letting a part of oneself die. *Vorrei una voce* is dedicated to those who have lost that ability.

“I was a young man; I had a job, a home, a car, and, above all, people who loved me, but I had stopped finding joy in what I did—I no longer believed in myself or in anything,” says Granata. “I don’t know how it happened. One day I woke up and no longer felt happy—neither doing my job nor planning anything else. When I received a call from Daniela Ursino, artistic director of the Piccolo Shakespeare Theater inside the Messina Correctional Facility, with a proposal to create a theater project with the female inmates ‘to help them come alive again, to dream, and to rediscover a lost femininity,’ I realized, after meeting them, that they were like me—or perhaps I was like them: we no longer dreamed. Looking at them, I felt imprisoned by myself, disfigured by myself, impoverished by myself. I had unwittingly squandered that precious gift that every human being should possess: freedom. So I proposed doing what I used to do as a boy when I listened to Mina’s songs: I would act out my own fantastical stories in her voice. 
Together with the inmates, we staged Mina’s final live concert, held at La Bussola on August 23, 1978. The idea was to delve into their own memories, into a space of their own, where anything would be possible—to reclaim a femininity that had been suppressed, the freedom to express their own souls and bodies—in a place that, by its very nature, tends to suppress all of this on a daily basis. Each of them was assigned two songs by Mina, and through lip-syncing, they had to convey the strength and power of their own stories to free themselves from the thoughts, anxieties, and failures of a lifetime. Together with them, I found myself searching for the meaning of everything I had done up to that point. 
I don’t want to—and I can’t—bring my girls from the Piccolo Shakespeare of Messina to the stage, because what we created within that space of freedom inside a prison should rightfully remain with them and for them. In *Vorrei una voce in scena*, it’s just me on stage; from the girls, I bring their eyes, their gestures, their tears, and their smiles. Thanks to them, I tell stories of people who seek a profound redemption from life: they want a love for life—that strong, impetuous drive that allows you to endure anything and do whatever it takes to make a dream come true.”

I was a young man; I had a job, a home, a car, and, above all, people who loved me, but I had stopped finding joy in what I did—I no longer believed in myself or in anything. I don’t know how it happened. One day I woke up and no longer felt happy—neither about doing my job nor about planning anything else. When I received a call from Daniela Ursino, artistic director of the theater she had founded inside the Messina Correctional Facility, with a proposal to create a theater project with the female inmates <to help them come alive again, to dream, and to rediscover a lost femininity>, I realized, after meeting them, that they were like me—or perhaps I was like them: we no longer dreamed.
Looking at them, I felt imprisoned by myself, disfigured by myself, impoverished by myself. I had unwittingly squandered that precious gift that every human being should possess: freedom.
At that point, I found myself catapulted into a real theater—a very special place—with young women like me. I proposed doing what I used to do as a boy when I listened to Mina’s songs: I would act out my own fantastical stories using her voice.
Together with the inmates, we staged Mina’s final live concert, held at La Bussola on August 23, 1978. The idea was to delve into our own memories, into our own space, where anything would be possible. But first, we had to go through something very profound—to reclaim a femininity that had been suppressed, the freedom to express one’s soul and body—in a place that, by its very nature, tends to suppress all of this on a daily basis.
Each of them was given two Mina songs, and through lip-syncing, they had to convey the strength and power of their own stories to free themselves from the thoughts, anxieties, and failures of a lifetime.
Together with them, I found myself searching for the meaning of everything I had done up to that point.
I do not want to—and cannot—bring my girls from the Piccolo Shakespeare of Messina to the stage, because what we created within that space of freedom found inside a prison rightfully belongs with them and is for them alone.
In *Vorrei una voce* , I’ll be the only one on stage; from the girls, I’ll bring their eyes, their gestures, their long, tight hugs, their tears, and their smiles. Thanks to them, I’ll tell stories of people who seek a profound redemption from life: they want love. Not idealized, romantic love, but love for life—that strong, impetuous, sometimes violent, and seemingly senseless drive that allows you to endure anything, to do anything to make a dream come true.
I’ll move in and out of each story thanks to Mina’s songs played in playback, as if creating an imaginary concert made up of different souls, all united by a single voice—Mina’s. Just as I used to do when I was little more than a child, free to imagine the future and without fear.

Born in Tindari, he began his theater career in 2002 with Massimo Ranieri. In 2007, he embarked on a fruitful collaboration with Carmelo Rifici, working on some of the most important productions in the Italian and Swiss theater scenes. As a playwright, director, and actor, he made his debut in 2011 with *Antropolaroid*, a play about the history of his homeland in which he portrayed all the characters in the story and for which he received several awards, including the ANCT (National Association of Theater Critics) Award for Best Innovative Production. In 2013, he staged *Envy Me as I Have Envied You*, the story of a case of child sexual abuse inspired by a real-life news story, for which he received the Mariangela Melato Award for Best Emerging Actor and other awards, including the Enriquez Award “Dramaturgy for Social Commitment” Award and the International “Sicilian Pride in the World” Award. In 2016, he made his debut with *Geppetto e Geppetto*, a work in which—in the wake of the passage of the Cirinnà bill—he addressed the issue of “stepchild adoption,” earning him the Ubu Award for Best New Play or Dramatic Project, the 2017 Hystrio Twister Award for Best Production of the Year, and other accolades. He has been directed by various directors, including Serena Sinigaglia, Andrea Chiodi, and Leonardo Lidi. He wrote *Dedalo e Icaro*, which explores the theme of autism, and *Farsi Silenzio*, a secular pilgrimage in search of the sacred. He is the artistic director of Proxima Res, of *Situazione Drammatica*—a program at the Hystrio Festival and RomaEuropa Festival—and of the Tindari Festival at the Greek Theater in Tindari. He writes for the online magazine *Rewriters*. In 2023, he once again won the ANCT Award for his artistic career as an actor and playwright and in his capacity as a cultural practitioner.

by and starring

Tindaro Granata

featuring songs by

Mina

inspired by a meeting with

The female inmates who are actresses at the Piccolo Shakespeare Theater inside the Messina Correctional Facility, as part of the “Il Teatro per Sognare” project by D’aRteventi, directed by Daniela Ursino

lighting design

Luigi Biondi 

costumes 

Aurora Damanti 

assistant director 

Alessandro Bandini 

Company and Distribution Manager

Paola Binetti 

company technique 

Roberta Faiolo

production

LAC Lugano Art and Culture

in collaboration with

Proxima Res

production partner

Moncucco Hospital Group - Moncucco Clinic and Santa Chiara Clinic