Habil of cities

Habil is a kid from our suburbs. A bedroom too small, too many thoughts, not enough space to exist. It feels invisible. He keeps the cap tucked on his head and a blade hidden in his pocket. Habil is one of the nobody, one hundred thousand Habil in our cities. We meet him in shopping malls, on regional trains, at bus stops. It scares us. Let's invoke the State, the family, the school. He writes bars and fights with Qabil.

Habil delle Città is a show for a few spectators at a time, seated in a circle, who are asked to cross two spaces and two responsibilities: staying inside and being in front. In the first part, through a VR headset, we follow Habil on any given day in his life. We walk next to him, we encounter his relationships, his places, his time. Nothing seems great. Precisely for this reason, what happens at the end of that day, the body of a murdered teenager, covered by a white sheet, abruptly interrupts all distance.

In the second part, the theater returns to being a shared space. Sitting in that circle, together with six young actors and actresses, the audience moves from the solitary and immersive intimacy of virtual reality to the need to be together, as in a rite, as in a Greek tragedy, in questions that can no longer be avoided: what responsibilities, individual and social, cross a city when an adolescent is lost like this? Who is that dead boy? Does it concern us?

Timetables

• June 30, 1-3-4-5 July: double repeat at 7:00pm and 9:30pm
• July 2: double repeat at 10 am and 12.30 pm

Info and reservations

The show can accommodate 25 spectators for each performance. To book, call or write to the ticket office of the ITC Teatro di San

Lazzaro:

• Telephone: 0516270150
• e-mail: biglietteria@itcteatro.it

Tickets

• Buy tickets at Vivaticket

Habil delle città as part of Politico Poético, a project by Teatro dell'Argine, in collaboration with the Department of Education, Education and New Generations of the City of Bologna, IU Rusconi Ghigi Foundation, co-financed by the European Union as part of the PN Metro Plus 2021-2027.