Places of ‘hardship,’ Naples’ homeless staged

Excerpted, edited by Carolyn Bennett
Davide Iodice brings theater to “places of ‘hardship,’” places of hardship to theater: La fabbrica dei sogni (The dream factory)
Homelessness highlighted

Biographies, memories, dreams and nightmares of homeless people “became the script of a screenplay that talks about us, maybe about what we ourselves have ‘repressed.’”

In the dream factory “one tries, without project or distinction, to construct or reassemble one’s own reality, a semblance if not exactly an ideal model of reality. What is used is the leftover material from one’s own memories, one’s own pain, what is left of a love affair, of a tragedy...

“Sad laborers work in the dream factory, souls waiting to be adopted, ‘misshapen’ lives outside the social mold live and sleep side by side ─ yet out of reach from each other.

“… [Is] life itself not a factory of dreams: illusion, evanescence, precipice of images, rambling plot, apparition, phantom, endless return?” [Davide Iodice]

Davide Iodice conducted research, noted his impressions and recorded moments of the everyday life of the guests of Naples’ Doss-house for the Homeless. The result was a collection of suggestions, personal portraits and snapshots of the subjects’ introspection ─ La fabbrica dei sogni (The dream factory)
http://www.teatrofestivalitalia.it/Napoli_Teatro_Festival_Italia_Performances_2010_La_fabbrica_dei_sogni-1458.1982.7.html?y=2010&v=1 Performed June 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 / Dormitorio Pubblico di Napoli / approx. length 1 hour 30 minutes; dramatics and direction by Davide Iodice / production Teatro Stabile di Napoli / in co-production with Napoli Teatro Festival Italia / country Italy / language Italian. David Iodice (b. Naples, Italy, 1968) is a theater director and dramatist.Also featured on Network Europe Week June 26, 2010, http://www.euranet.eu/eng/programme/English-Programmes/Network-Europe-Week-26-June

This weekend “Canada’s native communities are using the G20 and G8 gatherings to bring attention to land rights issues, poverty and poor living conditions.”

Italy’s largest union staged a nationwide strike disrupting public transport and government services in a protest over the government’s austerity measures. Protesters also took to the streets on Friday in Rome and other major Italian cities including Naples and Milan. [Reported on Al Jazeera English]