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Learn more- Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The first Socioplay on the Road that in Rome has inspired L'amore in piazza (2017) about Love for the weddings of Tinto Brass and Caterina Varzi. Several groups of Siena high school students, accompanied by teachers, will meet in the Orto De 'Pecci ecological park. Everyone will bring a pen, a letter paper, an envelope and a one-euro coin. At the base of the event, the game of representation and spontaneous creativity in the group. Some You Tube videos from ipodplays channel and from "Improve Everywhere" websites show what is the sociodrama and the impromptu plays. Ottavio plays the role of Till Eulenspiegel and has two Cacatoa as assistants: Teto (in the role of Pappafreud) and Iside (in the role of Anima animalis). The parrots are very intelligent and empathetic and they help Ottavio in the phase of warming-up of the groups. The organizers of the event inform the youngsters that they will be able to extend the socioplay and its derivatives on a Facebook page with photos, video, exchanges and comments. A crew of six operators and four professional photographers follows the various phases of the socioplay. The shoot will allow both a traditional editing and a Multi-Angle Coverage of the event, realized in Ipov3. Two operators take up the event from above in the wide field (200 meters), from two diametrically opposed positions. One from the top of the hill, one from the lawn in front of the small zoo in Orto de' Pecci. Ottavio as Till Eulenspiegel hovers around the garden with two parrots on his shoulders and a pair of cameramen at his side. He goes to meet the boys as they enter, and introduces his feathered assistants. The boys play and have fun. One of the games with which O. breaks the ice is to talk to the students by doubling the voice of the cacatoa, as if it were a puppet. Pets often climb on the boys' arms and greet them. At the center of the garden the boys of the various schools form several small groups. Ottavio passes between them and launches provocative interviews. He uses role-playing and other psycho-play and improvement techniques to animate the play. Theme: friends and enemies of happiness. Ottavio goes through a megaphone, delivers it to the boys and invites them to shout in heaven something important on the theme of happiness: what it consists of and how to reach it. The megaphone must be kept high, addressing the group and the city. If students are afraid, O. insists. Some suggest not to think too much before speaking, but to let go. If the voice goes out little or badly, O. will repeat the action until they find the pitch and the right volume. The organizers stage a pile of sheets containing bibliographies on Happiness ordered by various themes. The sectors are: A. Happiness in love and affection; B. Happiness and mental peace, in political and social life; C. Happiness in work and success; D. Happiness in the ability to communicate effectively with others; E. Filmography of stories with winning heroes (of sport, of art, of research ...) capable of Resilience and of pursuing their objectives, overcoming crises and difficulties. Each of the five pages has a different color. O. asks the boys to turn around and exchange sheets so that everyone has a copy of the five sheets. While the boys are busy, O. intervenes in the subject, animating the game and also giving some interpretation of the dynamics. Ottavio invites each member of the group to write a letter to himself in the future, in which he describes hopes and goals of happiness. A few boys could read aloud parts of the letter. Every boy puts his letter in an envelope addressed to himself. The address, for reasons of privacy, is that of his school. The organizers deliver a euro and a flower to each participant of the socioplay. The conductor invites the group to leave the Orto de 'Pecci to go to the famous Piazza Il Campo where in summer the city organizes Palio di Siena. Ottavio invites every boy to look for a passerby on the street to whom he can offer the flower and the letter, proposing to read it and write two lines of commentary. The delivery ends as follows: "The person who will accept your letter will be your Postal Mentor. Give him a one-euro coin to buy a stamp with which to fasten the letter and send it. And tell him that with the rest of the euro he can do what he wants. " The action ends at Piazza Il Campo where the boys find themselves in a position in front of the big tower. Or it gives rise to a sharing on the encounter with passers-by who, naturally, reacted in very different ways. The second part of the event takes place about ten days later, in the schools. The group, in the company of the teachers, takes note of what has happened. How many letters are back to their authors? And with what comments? What happened to the forty cents of change? What do the guys think? It is a double socio-psychological test. The boys comment on the way adults have commented on the letters. The whole experience becomes a docufilm. Plays productions edit a professional video but also the students edit their video. Five cameramen work on the set to create (as well as the normal video) a multi-angle edition in IPOV3 directed by Antonio Rossi. In this way it will be possible to re-examine the event from five different contemporary points of view in order to study the reactions of a sub-group or of a single person to what happens on the main scene. It is the first time that Rosati uses IPOV3 for an improvised event. In 2012 he will still use IPOV3 at the Teatro Valle di Roma for "Fantasmi", the sociodrama about the Pirandello family produced by Plays with Cinecittà Holding and the Teatro Stabile of Catania.
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