Credits
Written and directed by
Co-director and co-author
Ruben Moroni
Musical director
Original music
Max Pizio
Poems by
Radwan Kayse
written with the invaluable help of
Patrizia Borsa
Italian teacher and translator.
A collection of poems by Radwan Kayse edited by Patrizia Borsa is scheduled to be released soon. Within it will also be poems evoked in music in the performance WATER.
Scenography
Antonella Gabrielli
www.antonellagabrielli.com
Costumes
Hatice & Emine Sagdic
Patrizia Borsa is a translator and language trainer in the field of integration.
She helped Radwan Kayse Cisse craft his poems.
This is how she describes the journey with Radwan:
September 2019: I meet Radwan in the framework of "E-Voliamo," a project carried out by SOS Ticino to promote the training and integration in Switzerland of young migrants and in which I participate as a teacher of Italian.
Radwan is a Somali boy, a stranger among others, each with his own story. The group is very diverse and Radwan, due to his introverted nature, often sits at the back of the class. He is of few words.
Nov. 26, 2019: Radwan begins to make his voice heard. He sends me by WhatsApp his first poem. I read it, and every word moves me deeply. I correct the text, send it back to him, invite him to write, and to write more. Radwan sends me poems almost every day. The channel of writing becomes his way to communicate, to process the past, without forgetting it. I listen to him.
And so it is that, through this deeply true dialogue, composed of many small pearls, a collection of poems entitled I was born twice (still unpublished) slowly takes shape over the nine months of his formative journey.
Radwan's work was born during the empty, dark months of the pandemic. It is a silent dialogue, full of spontaneity, emotionality and infinite wisdom. It is a message of hope, in a world that does not always know how to welcome what is different. It is an invitation to look at life through the eyes of a boy who has crossed the desert and the sea in search of a better life. It is a hymn to courage, addressed to everyone, a hymn to the courage to know how to turn over a new leaf and the courage to know how to fill the blank pages of one's life with new words.
Now, with WATER the Musical, Radwan's voice resounds on stage, and his message is a true gift.
Actors on stage
Rachele Tantardini
Agatha. Figlia della presidente del partito UO (Uniti per l’Ordine).
Umberto Banti
Igor De Panza. Presidente del partito UO (Uniti per l’Ordine) e padre di Agatha.
Racha Al Tahan
Keyla. Amica di Agatha
Romina Gretener
Suri. Amica di Agatha
Charlotte Büchi
Kiku. Amica di Agatha
Claude Annick Jermini
Zia Lele
Anne Laure Mage
Zia Mete
Enrico Ballardini
Il marinaio. Il grande amore di Agatha.
Fabio Burci
Ill. Il guardiano del parco.
Ex fidanzato di Agatha.
Manuel Häner
Il ragazzo. Spasimante di Agatha.
Giovanni Baraglia
Netturbino Manny
Eleonora Manetti
Netturbino Olli
Elena Visconti
La vagabonda
Romina Trevisan
La pescivendola
Antonella Gabrielli
La vecchietta
Ettore Chiummo
Artista di strada.
Prete
Radwan Kayse
Interpreta Radwan Kayse
Musicians
Elias Nardi
Oud
Claudio Farinone
Chitarra flamenca, baritona, chitarra elettrica
Fausto Beccalossi
Fisarmonica
Federico Melis
Pianoforte
Marco Conti
Contrabbasso, basso elettrico
Igor Tiozzo
Vibrafono, percussioni
Paolo Pasqualin
Batteria, Glockenspiel, percussioni
Max Pizio
Director, sound designer, fiati, wave drums, tastiera
Barbara Zanichelli
voice
Beatrice Pellegrino
voice
Veronika Prosypkina
voice
GUEST AND COLLABORATIONS
Sandro D'Onofrio
piano
Luca Valli
Copista
Max Tofone
Layout
Alessandra Meniconzi & Samantha Montagnini
Fotografie