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  "Un progetto di viaggio" di Fabiana Dallavalle July 25, 2001 (Translated review below)
Young Actors from Five Countries in a Laboratory at the Belvedere on the Natisone River:
A VOYAGE PROJECT Recounting changes of the last ten years
It is not a theatre performance and it is already much more than a laboratory. Certainly it's a good beginning. The beginning of a journey in which making theatre is one of the possible ways of telling the stories of one's own people or the story of one's life around a bonfire ignited on a summer night. Thus did the young actors of the Voyage Project present themselves Monday at the Belvedere on the Natisone - a "work in progress" begun in Sibiu, Romania and hosted at MittelFest in Cividale for another three evenings (yesterday, Friday and Saturday).
The theme of the work explored by the young actors, each coming from a country which in the last ten years has undergone significant political and cultural changes, is the Journey, perhaps the most central and abiding of all theatrical and literary motifs. After the introduction by the director, Peter Goldfarb, the young actors, recent graduates from Crakow, Budapest, Iassi, Belgrade and Milan, came down into the audience and began to recount their stories as they might have done were they fellow travelers meeting by chance. Interesting to see how this group of young people, so diverse, open themselves to each other in the course of their tales. It was not always easy to follow the stories narrated in English accented by their different native origins, the use of the language of Albion limiting from an expressive and dramaturgical point of view and not comfortable for the young actors. To hear them tell their stories in their own tongues with the accompanying emotionality and physicality would have undoubtedly had a different "weight." However, the audience followed to the finish the itinerary forged by the young actors, caught up by the naturalistic scenario and the truth and genuineness of the work.
(NB: In keeping with the development nature of the project, subsequent performances incorporated a substantially greater use of the actors' own languages.)
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