PPP ti presento l’Albania is a monologue based on autobiographical stories, extracted from the novel Il sogno di una cosa by Pasolini and authorial reworkings. The scenography consists of a white table and chair, a book and a grid of light bulbs with black and white photos of places and people important for Ilir, the protagonist. PPP ti presento l’Albania tells the meeting between a twenty-year-old son of Albanian migrants and the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP). Reading this book, Ilir jumps to his feet and runs to get his diary where he enthusiastically writes: “Dear P.P.P, I am writing to you first of all to thank you …”. Thus begins an imaginary correspondence that leads him to tell the migration of his parents, the legends handed down by his grandparents, the dances and ceremonies present in his land. In this way, Ilir gradually re-elaborates the sense of belonging to his own origins, rediscovering himself in the words of a great writer. The show accompanies the spectator through a succession of mirror situations. On one hand, there is Friuli, a region of northern Italy where Pasolini grew up. On the other, there is Ilir’s Albania, Klaus Martini’s transparent alter ego, which obtains, from Pasolini’s finding himself in his mother’s homeland, the urge to find himself in a world from which he was separated himself as a child, forgetting and censoring it to preserve the possibility of a new and different integration.
by and with Klaus Martini
light design Stefano Bragagnolo
with the productive support of Mittelfest
winner award MittelYoung 2021
show included in the radio review of Rai Radio 3 “Futuropresente – nuove scritture per la scena italiana”
duration 50’
Klaus Martini was born in Albania and grew up in Italy. In 2018 he graduated as an actor at the Civica Accademia d’Arte Drammatica Nico Pepe. He works in several productions of the CSS Teatro stabile d’innovazione del FVG: Vanja in città directed by Rita Maffei, Mi vedi? directed by Guillermo Pisanì, Il labirinto di Orfeo directed by Rita Maffei. He also plays main roles in La Morteana by Pier Paolo Pasolini, directed by Massimo Somaglino, Vennero in tanti e si chiamavano gente by Nicoletta Oscuro and Hugo Samek, Il delegato directed by Alessio Nardin. In 2021 his monologue PPP ti presento l’Albania, of which he is author and performer, wins the prize MittelYoung 2021 in the Mittelfest Festival. In 2022 this monologue is selected by Rai Radio 3 for the Futuro Presente review and is broadcast in radio format on the italian national network. In 2022 he works in the international project The Handke Project directed by Blerta Rrustemi Neziraj.
Thanks to the collaboration with Scoppio Autolinee srl, there is a bus service for Sunday, May 7 2023 to get to Teatro Socjale from the center of Ravenna.
Bus infos
DEPARTURE: meet at 11 am at the bus stop in Via di Roma between Teatro Rasi and MAR
RETURN: meet at 2 pm at Teatro Socjale with arrival at the same place as the departure