#NUOVIPOVERI / #NEWPOORS

#nuovipoveri is a play that investigates the relationship between economy and society, self-perception, representation and self-narration of the concepts of wealth and poverty. Who are the new poor today? How do they tell themselves and society? How does society tell them? And how much truth is there in these narratives?

On stage, in the arena of an abandoned circus, there are Letizia and Marco, an actress and an actor grappling with a small community of new poor people: five people who do not live in the deepest poverty but who, for different reasons, they do not meet the consumption parameters, they do not fall within recognized professional categories, they do not correspond, by necessity or by choice, to the economic and cultural models dictated by Western society.
These new poor people make their appearance on video, tell their story in the intimate space of a stolen interview, reveal their moods through a look, the ripple of a smile, hand movements. Letizia and Marco listen to them, question them and interpret them.
Between one interview and another, the two performers converse with the audience, confide in them episodes of their private lives, talk about their bank accounts and show production expenses, give voice to nightmares of poverty and dreams of wealth.

#nuovipoveri is also a play about money and its contradictions, about the power it has to change the balance and dynamics of relationships, to decide the days of individuals, the happiness of families and the construction of the identity of an entire society. Poverty of means and resources, of relationships, of ideas and knowledge, of concrete possibilities in imagining one’s present and a possible future.