By the Academy of Madness of Claudio Misculin and Antonella Carlucci
in collaboration with the Open Valley Association
with the support of the bibliographic selection of the Municipal Library of Giovo
The Academy of Madness is a theater company founded within the former psychiatric hospital of Trieste, at a historical moment when those walls were literally being demolished by the Basaglian revolution.
Claudio Misculin, actor and director, was among the protagonists of that collective dream.
In 1976, he founded the first group, creating a theater made by “madmen,” in which art becomes a tool for freedom and social transformation. He actively participated in the birth of that vision that led to Law 180, the reform that radically changed the Italian psychiatric system.
The show retraces the fundamental steps of that visionary undertaking, from the destruction of the asylum institution to the conquest of new human and social horizons.
Through rediscovered words, narrated by those who have lived and continue to live this experience firsthand, strong and universal emotions emerge: disorientation, rebellion, solitude, uncertainty, hope, nostalgia for the denied “possibilities.”
It is from here that a journey begins where the impossible becomes possible.
On stage, eight actors give voice to an intense weave of texts, articles, interviews, poems, and authentic testimonies from Franco Basaglia, his collaborators, and the “mad.”
The words merge with music, dance, and song, reinventing languages and perspectives, restoring to madness its human and poetic dignity — tearing it from the grip of rationality and the violence of institutions.
"It is the story of those who take part,
of those who take sides,
of those who touch the earth,
wet the roses and change things."
Saturday, November 15
8:45 PM
Theater of Verla di Giovo
Tickets:
8 € full price – 5 € reduced (under 25)
