Narcissus - A Production for Very Young Children by Melarancio Theatre Company in Italy
Compagnia Il Melarancio cooperativa sociale onlus
Piazzetta del Teatro ,1 – 12100 CUNEO
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NARCISSUS - Dedicated to children in the reflective stage and those beyond who continue to learn from their surroundings
"Eye watches but stays silent
nose like a potato
mouth speaks and says ‘coo coo’
all together it makes up you"
There is a quilt, perhaps a large bed with a big pillow in the middle, maybe a cot, among the pillows, one special pillow cries, laughs, cries, laughs, laughs, cr… and it’s hair? Black, short, curly; or blonde, red, long; bald, tied or shaggy. Almost always at bed, the adventure of life begins; and there are many months where a child watches us from its cot, its nurturing refuge-trampoline, taking on the adventure of growing. To grow, without knowing how. How much courage does it take to say your first ‘no’; to affirm that something is yours; to feel independent from your mother; in short, to grow.
Its photo, there’s one for me, one for you, one for each of us; they tell the story of cutting out an identity. Our performance plays with feeling oneself, identifying oneself, me, you, us, alone or together in a photo, in a phase of life where understanding oneself is the maximum expression of vitality.
Narcissus is a performance that is part of the ‘First