Eight performances in New York for “IO//ODIO”, the show by the Turin-based company Santibriganti that recounts the delirious ferocity of a Nazi-skin and will be from January 30 to February 7 on the stage of the SoHo Playhouse, an Off Broadway Theater. “This is a great international recognition that adds to the many national awards already received by Santibriganti in all these years of professional theatrical activity,” says Maurizio Bàbuin, creator and director of the show. Enabling Santibriganti's American adventure was an electrocution. “IO//ODIO” in October, in fact, participated in the Milan Off Fringe, and it was at one of the performances that Darren Lee Cole, artistic director of the SoHo Playhouse, attended and was impressed by the show. Thus the play was selected for eight New York performances. “IO//ODIO” is the first act of a trilogy that aims to investigate evil. The project was born in 2021, but Bàbuin had been working on the show for some time. The text was written by Valentina Diana and performed by Luca Serra Busnengo. “IO//ODIO” recounts the rant of a Nazi-skin who reaps proselytes through an alleged Telegram channel. The show is urticant, extreme, unlistenable: an uncomfortable mirror that forces us to reflect on our contradictions as individuals and society. The project of Santibriganti Theater was born from some reflections on proto-criminal deviances and their developments that often arise in adolescence. The intent is to investigate the birth and development of evil, which is mainly male, because the gap is disproportionate: for one woman who stains herself, there are a hundred men who crime, hurt, rape, kill, and despise. The goal is to develop a reflection, particularly strong, that focuses on categories and their drifts sadly prominent in our contemporary times.
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