ALESSANDRO GHEBREIGZIABIHER

Home page About my projects The story - Information: Email: Intercultural_lab

“The gift of diversity”, Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Laboratory The story The first edition of the course started in November 2005, in Rome. At the end of a eight months travel, the first participating group became a theatre company: “The differents, almost equals, but differents”, that debuted in June ’06 with the show: “Stories on the mirror”, most of all written by the actors. The thought behind this work was: Interculture means confront, exchange and communication among diverse cultures, towards an opened view and a larger dialogue between differences, against each discrimination. However, somehow, privileging interest to origins and traditions of the person that we meet - even if rich and amazing - and that normally we call a stranger, we may risk to forget his true particularity, maybe the most important thing: his story and not his country's one, his experience and not his people's one, his emotions and feelings, not his race's one. So, we can make the mistake to build a weak and false image, a masquerade, where people are just playing roles: the African, the Chinese, the Arabian and so on. Words are important and, when concepts linked to them have a fundamental value in our life, contradictions are not possible. We are different or equal? We can't be both, this is our provocation. We ask you to choose. If you believe that we are all the same, this show is not for you. On the contrary, if you think we are all unique, then, maybe, you could agree with the idea behind this pièce: the most powerful, significant and revolutionary way to have an intercultural point of view, in other words, to underline the importance of differences and of richness inside our individuality, is to show the diversity of people that often think themselves as equal (not celebrating the equality of strangers...), to tell how much they are interesting to listen when they are speaking of themselves and how all become wonderful if they are so proud to mix each others. In June 2007 we organized this event: "THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY", INTERCULTURAL THEATRE STORYTELLING FESTIVAL Click for information The III Edition of the laboratory started in November 2007 and in May 2008 we’ll realize the next Festival. Last update: 2007-12-03