I couldn’t do without the theatre today.
I could say it became my second home. In fact, the theater is like a family where they teach you to live the magic of the stage according to the rules and a discipline necessary for the success of a show.

The first time I went on a real stage, it was in fifth grade. To say goodbye to the last year of elementary school with our teacher and theater teacher, we staged “L’avaro”by Moliere. When they did the “auditions”, I was chosen to play the part of Harpagon, or the stingy. It was a success. I’m sure it was from that show that my passion for theatre began.

So I decided to go for a theatre course at the parish near my house, at the “Piccolo teatro San Pio”. The first show I did with them was “The wizard of Oz”; I played a double role, that of narrator and that of the witch. The following year we staged “Grease”, and finally I took part at the invitation of the director Francesco De Filippo, even to a show of the company, my first serious show: “Orilio Orilio”, a comedy adapted also to insert my part directly by the director of the theater.

It was on that occasion that, working with adults, I realized that the theatre is not only a game, but also commitment and dedication. Respect for one’s companions is fundamental and is demonstrated by the punctuality, preparation and study of the memory of one’s own part. The success of a show is in fact achieved through hard work and harmony that can be established with the other actors.

As time passed, my experience and passion increased; until I decided to raise the bar looking for a new theatre school. . .
During the summer between the first and second grades, my parents and I went all over the place to find a theatre that offered me the chance to cultivate my passion and at the same time improve myself. We found a theatre in the Torrino district: the “Teatro del Torrino”; which had hosted and hosted many important actors, and whose teacher and director (Luca Pizzurro), was a pupil and friend of the famous actor Arnoldo Foà.

So I started a new adventure.

Although I’m not a beginner, I decided to do my first year in this theater by enrolling in the basic course. That year I had a fantastic teacher who raised me to the next level. We staged for the essay “L. P. Nome e Cognome”, a work entirely written by Luca Pizzurro, which narrates the life of Luigi Pirandello. For the performance I did during the year, they decided to move directly to the advanced course, so this year I started a new journey with new friends and with a new teacher: the director Luca Pizzurro. Not even two months, and I found myself doing a show with other classmates and with the permanent theater company. That meant to me that maybe I was really good.

We have staged “A Christmas Carol”, which is performed every December.

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In January Luca called me back with my immense joy to do another show (in my opinion the best I’ve done so far): “Oliver Twist”. Then we made an essay in the middle of the year: “videoclip”, entirely to musicals with monologues between one “videoclip” and the other.

I thought that the shows with the adults were over, but not; in April I found myself doing “The Little Prince”.

In a week’s time we will be doing the end-of-year essay: “Dante Restart”, based on the life of Dante Alighieri, while on the 30th of June I will always go on stage with the company with “Coco Chanel”, a story based on the life of the famous French stylist. In a week’s time we will be doing the end-of-year essay: “Dante Restart”, based on the life of Dante Alighieri, while on the 30th of June I will always go on stage with the company with “Coco Chanel”, a story based on the life of the famous French stylist.

For all this work, you obviously need a lot of commitment and dedication without which you can’t act in the theater. I would never have gone all this way if I hadn’t really liked the theatre.
For me, theatre is fun, it’s an outburst. For me, theatre is like having a second life, a different reality from everyday life.
For me, theatre is life.

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Social media addiction is a common factor among young people of this time, who are trying to aspire to an increasing number of likes and followers.

This leads to a real addiction based on being more popular than the day before. Especially in social media, people try to get noticed by making more and more studied, filtered and effective photos to get that handful of more likes, thus falsifying what they are in reality.

With regard to this subject I would like to quote the current thought of Pirandello who said in the novel One, no one, and a hundred thousand: “You will learn at your own expense that in the long journey of life you will encounter many masks and few faces”.

His ego search for others see us and how we want to be seen is very relevant in the age of selfie and social with which we strenuously try to build our characters to drive the image that others will form of us, suffocating our uniqueness, and risking to delude ourselves, becoming precisely “one, none, and a hundred thousand…”

Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens’most famous novels. Published in 1837, it was the first English novel to deal with social issues interpreted by a boy. In his novel, the author denounces the evils of Victorian society: child exploitation, poverty and crime.

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Oliver is an orphan boy. At the age of 9 he went to work in a workhouse with other orphans like him. Being new, Oliver is mistreated and misunderstoodby his classmates. One day Mr. Sowerberry goes to find an orphan to take with him to help him with his grave digger job, and takes Oliver. The boy, also being exploited here, decides to flee to London where he meets Jack Dawkins, a boy he steals for a living. Jack takes him to his boss: Fagin, a man who used to collect poor street kids and teach them how to steal, in fact, in the shack where he lives, there are other poor kids like him. Fagin also teaches Oliver to steal. Initially, the boy meant itas a game and did not take it very seriously. During a date with the other boys, Oliver realizes that it’s not a game, so he decides to run away, but passers-by mistake him for one of the thieves.

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Luckily for him, Mr. Brownlow, a wealthy English man of good heart, see severy thing from the window of the library, and takes the boy into custody.
Oliver is loved in this house, but during an outing to do Mr. Brownlow a favor, Nancy (a follower of Fagin) pretends to be his sister and stages that he had escaped from home. Passers-by believe it and Nancy brings Oliver back from Fagin.
One night while Fagin and his friend Toby were going to steal from a house taking Oliver with them to keep an eye on him, Oliver sees Mr Brownlow on the street and starts screaming to get himself saved, so Fagin shoots him and injures him on one shoulder.
Fagin takes him back to the house of the dying thieves, and for fear that he might talk to someone, he decides to kill him by drowning him in ariver as soon as he has recovered.

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Nancy, repentant of what she did, confides everything to Mr. Brownlow who warns the police that she puts a bounty on him. Fagin suspecting Nancy orders Jack to follow her and discovered the betrayal kills her. The crowd once they know about the bounty on Fagin goes looking for him and discovers where he lives. The house is surrounded and the boys rebelled against Fagin and threw him into the crowd. Fagin dies. Among the crowd is also Mr Brownlow, who takes Oliver with him to his home to finally live a peaceful life with people who love him and care for him.
With this novel Dickens denounces the method of education of poor children in orphanages who are exploited to perform hard work and without compensation. Many poor children without education are forced to take bad roads. Finally, it denounces the system of wealthy British families that offered charity to the poor to gain admiration in society.

Oliver represents a young man who rebels against abuse and injustice and who, by remaining anchored in sound moral and religious principles, succeeds in improving his condition with his stubbornness.

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The incredible thing is that unfortunately there are still cases of child exploitation in developing countries, particularly in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.
From this novel were also taken films and musicals famous through out the world.

In January 2019, I was lucky enough tobe able to participate in the musical freely based on the original novel, which was staged by my director and acting teacher. A fantastic and very funny experience. The show was a success and next year it will be on stage for at least 2 months.
The show is so successful that it will be presented at major theater competitions.
Let’s hope we come out on top!

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On March 14th with the school we went on a trip to ESA, the European space agency, who cares about the “well-being” situation of the Earth. There, they showed us as they controlled the satellite, what were their functions, etc… We did a “game” with coordinates to find and things like that, they let us take a ride and then walked into a big room where they showed us what were the rockets that had them at ESA, and then they made us build a model rocket with the various mechanical parts. After that we went out into the yard, where they made us see Mini Rockets built with plastic bottles that start compressed air, and I have to say that they went higher than I expected…

The most beautiful part of the tour was when they let us into a dark room where there was a half sphere set in one of the walls, making the earth look like 3D.Finally we entered in a large hall, where they explained the moon landing, the sea currents and the climate and they made us build a model of lunar base with material such as plastic cups and aluminum foil. This has been a very enriching experience for me, they also gave us gadgets…

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A couple of years ago, my family and I signed up for a nice mission: NASA with the expedition to Mars, carried the names of the first 500 subscribers etched in the bits of a microchip on the planet’s soil.

This probe landed on Mars a few months ago, and it is still gathering information on the “Red planet”.

Therefore, this trip to ESA it was for me a tangible experience of the places where people study and work to discover mysteries of the universe.

My limits are all surmountable. They are more or less easy to do, with dedication and will, I can go beyond them.

For example, with the study of piano and theater, when I do something new, I try to improve it more and more, and more…as long as I arrive at one point that I can’t top myserf. There is something blocking me and not letting me on.

Can it be an external thing? Can it be a physical or a psychological thing? Or is it life itself that blocked me to top myself?

Another example of limits, is when I go out with my friends to do parkour.

It’s happened that we have found an obstacle, but we did not give up. We have tried and tried again to get to the top of that damn wall high three times us, but we did not succeed.

We understood what our physical limit was, but I knew that I could overcome it. So I concentrated, I focuse where to put the first foot and launch it upwards, how fast I should have run, clung to it and so I managed to pull myself up.

Then also my friends did it, so we have overcome a physical limit, if it ever was…

Every limit is surmountable for me, because it’s the fear of not making it that stopped us, we have to believe and to angage to go beyond.

Some limits let us know who we are, others mislead us.

We must believe in ourself: you must not allow to a limit to hinder your dream or will be the end; if somebody tells you that you can’t make it, don’t listen him, because he is showing you his limits, not yours!

By Dario Latini

Well, you only need the light when is shutting down, and that light is your dream, you realize you have it when you let it go. And you let it go. You staring at the bottom of your glass hoping a one day of make your dream last; but dreams come slow and go so fast. You can see when you close your eyes and maybe one day you’ll understand why everything you dream always die. You only need the light when is shutting down, and that light is your dream. You see of reality only when start again to dream. You realize you have a dream only when you let it go. You staring at the ceiling in the dark, you have always the same old empty feeling in your heart, because dreams come slowly and go so fast. You see it when you close your eyes but you can never touch or keep it tight because you have dreamt too much and you sunk too deep.

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You only need the light when is turning off, and that light is your dream, you see of reality only when you start again to dream, you do realize to have a dream only when you let it go,you see to be come up when you realize were you dreaming about, you only hate the reality when you get back to dream, you do realize to have a dream only when you let it go. And you let it go…

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This is a text of a Passenger’s song repurposed and edited from me about the importance of dreams in our life.

They come slowly and go so fast, for this you have to grow it and you never give up, because that dream is what you eat, what you breathing, what you are figthing for. Realize a dream is the reason of life, so find a dream and you’ll have a reason to go on. Realize it and you’ll have an answer which responds to question what’s my mission in life, you can’t? Dream on!…

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INTRODUCTION

Talking about an impressive phenomenon such as immigration from Europe and especially from Italy to the United States of America between the end of ‘800 and the first post-war period is not easy.
So I thought to select the images that in my mind tell the phenomenon, such as: photos of poor peasant families in southern Italy, the landing and controls on Ellis Island, the emergence of neighborhoods like ” Little Italy “, characters that for good or ill have become famous in America.
Finally I created a soundtrack by playing on each slide a song inspired by the inserted images salient moments of this.
Good vision!

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