CADA DIE THEATRE – FAMILY PUDDU – SPAZIO HANIFE ANA- ORISTANO – THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8

“Family Puddu,” given to the story and voice director Pierpaolo Piludu (Drop Die theater) narrates the war as seen through the eyes of a child down, while his father, Giovanni Battista Puddu, factotum of the Court of Cagliari, spend time learning from memory the phrases of the leader … “

Telling to create community, “This is the principle of scenic Drop Die theater, which for many years has been conducting research on the techniques of storytelling, to desire to tell looking in the eyes listener, without scenery, without artifice nor tricks.

In 1943 Cagliari lived some of the saddest days of its history: the B17, the “Flying Fortresses” American repeatedly bombarded the city destroying entire neighborhoods and turning it into a huge field of battaglia.La war seen through the eyes of a child. Down a child who has the misfortune of having a father extremely ignorant and certainly not a “champion of sensitivity.”
John the Baptist Puddu, factotum of the Court of Cagliari, he spends his time memorizing the sentences of the leader, his greatest desire is to be able to give the home one, two, many sons … to send to conquer the empire! So when, in the fourth year of marriage, after two girls, his wife finally gave him the first boy … John the Baptist is no longer in the skin.
Happiness, however, within a couple of months, turns into despair, he discovers that the long-awaited son has big mental problems, can not certainly see him pull off the uniform Balilla. He decides to keep the baby hidden at home, as if it were a disgrace.
Paradoxically, it will be thanks to the war, from 1943 to alarms began to resonate in all the districts of Cagliari, the baby will come out for the first time since his prison-house, happy to run through the streets of the district of Villanova refuge until the embankment and know a world which until then had been kept nascosto.A end of the story will be shown a short documentary “It was like living in a movie,” with some witnesses, particularly significant for women and men living in Cagliari during the bombing of 1943.

The Drop Die theater, in fact, in collaboration with the Chair of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cagliari and the ISRE of Nuoro, is conducting research aimed at the realization of a video file with the testimonies of the “Children’s’ 43 “who have seen the city of Cagliari die under the bombs. The initiative has so far involved 120 people aged between 72 and 101 years who have experienced firsthand the tragic days of the war in Cagliari. Each testimony contains moments of great emotion: those who have seen their own building crumble before their eyes, those who remained under the rubble for hours or days, who has witnessed the death of siblings, parents, friends … The show is for members of ‘ Cultural Association Hanife Ana theater jazz.
The cost of the card is € 5.00 and entitles you to free admission first.