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When: Sunday 22 February – 5 pm
where: Circolo di Santa Maria Riopetra / via Santa Maria Riopetra Fanteria 1 (provincial road 79), fraz. Santa Maria Riopetra, Sogliano al Rubicone
Admission: € 10 Limited seats, presale strongly recommended at this link: www.liveticket.it
Info: spettatore@sillaba.it / 370.3685093
The event is organized by Sillaba for the review FUORILUOGO_il theater outside the theater 2026 (12^ edition).
“A VEGLIA COL FULESTA” or: THE MAN WHO TELLS FAIRY TALES
by and with: Sergio Diotti
In this recital Sergio Diotti offers a synthesis of the research and stage work undertaken to give new life to the figure of the “Fulesta”, the storyteller typical of Emilia-Romagna popular culture and leads the viewer into a world that seems far away, but is only around the corner: a world that stopped several decades ago, at the time of peasant culture, of the oral transmission of fairy tales and memories of life. A world “poor” in games, sometimes even in food, without radio, television, cars, but full of stories. But then, what does this strange “Fulesta” have to give us, what will we remember about him after his farewell? Of the art of storytelling, we are left with its moral and pedagogical function:
in the very act of telling and listening we care: people, above all. Of past time, but also of time to come, through the free exercise of the fantastic. Between one story and another, from surreal nursery rhymes to fairy tales, from historical legends to life stories, it will be possible to glimpse some of the traditional storytelling
techniques used by Diotti, in a show that also becomes a fascinating journey to rediscover an art, that of telling, which has its roots in classical antiquity, but which returns, indeed, continues to fascinate us. “I tell stories, images and characters of my region, proposing them to the world. I take back stories and ways of telling from a tradition that has almost disappeared, I would say impalpable, without even the support of a “master” or predecessor to refer to; but I live this tradition as something concrete and important even today, in its making and undoing, renewing, self-nourishing itself… Storytelling is today, from a theatrical point of view, but not only, an indispensable exercise in listening to and understanding the other who is in us and outside of us”.
