COMPLEANNO DI TERRA (LAND BIRTHDAY)
Lettere segrete (Private Letters)

by Paola Berselli and Stefano Pasquini
with Paola Berselli, Maurizio Ferraresi and Stefano Pasquini
directed by Stefano Pasquini
produced by Teatro delle Ariette
2011
Paola and I have been living at the Ariette since 1989.
Ariette is a three-hectare farm on the hills of Castello di Serravalle, a small town near Bologna.
I always says that our second life has begun since then: 1989. In this second life, things started appearing more and more different than before.
For example, we had been together for a long time and we did not know what to give each other for birthday. It seemed to have non sense to give things so we started to present letters ...
5 spotlights, 2 light garlands, fruit and vegetable boxes, 1 fridge, the Lambrusco, the birthday cake with candles, the sawdust on the floor, our geese. A little bit like home, a little bit like a circus.
A show made of nothing, made of written words in the secret letters for our land birthdays.
A plain theatre, enlightened by a 21-year experience of life at the Ariette.