"It is not true that I, and all three hundred and fifty thousand Istrian exiles, are, were, bourgeois and fascists. It is not true that all of Istria was Slavic and had to return to Yugoslavia. It is not true that all my people are only nostalgic and irredentist”.

      “And if you had stayed? If with cunning patience you had remained in Istria, at home, your houses, your stables, your fields, your apartments, they would not have been occupied. All the liberators would have left, one after the other”

        “It was not us who wanted to leave; the truth was and is that “they” did not want us on those lands, of which they intended to erase, together with our presence, also the history…”

With this long-distance dialogue between Anna Maria Mori and Nelida Milani, two significant writers both from Istria, from Pola, who admirably express the reasons and feelings of those who “went” and those who “remained”, in any case exiles from an Italy beyond the sea, which barely survives today more in memory than in reality; begins the work that the Florian Metateatro has created with the collaboration of ANVGD-Associazione Nazionale Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia and ADIM-LCZE Associazione Dalmati Italiani nel Mondo-Libero Comune di Zara in Esilio.

With Law No. 92 of March 30, 2004, the Italian Parliament officially recognized February 10 as the “Day of Remembrance,” to commemorate the tragedy of the Italians who were victims of the foibe and forced to flee from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia in the post-war period, in the context of the complex issue of the eastern border.

The Florian Metateatro makes its own the intent to spread the knowledge of the dramatic events that forced hundreds of thousands of compatriots, inhabitants of "that Italy across the sea", to leave their homes breaking centuries of history and traditions. Theater, poetry and music are the tools to approach a long-removed pain.

The texts written by Giulia Basel, who also directs this Spettacolo-reading, with video direction by Alessio Tessitore, take us back to those days and to the feelings of the exiles and those who “remained”. The pieces are taken from works by Enzo Bettiza, Marisa Madieri, Marino Micich, Nelida Milani, Anna Maria Mori, Miryam Paparella Bracali, Paolo Santarcangeli, Ester Sardoz Barlessi, Scipio Slataper, Giani Stuparich, Fulvio Tomizza, Iginio Toth, Diego Zandel, all Italian authors who are exponents of the rich Julian-Dalmatian cultural heritage, and compose an emotional journey that brings the spectator closer to History.

The notes on the piano of Simona Ampolo Rella and on the cello of Giovanna Barbati, who will play pieces by the Istrian composer Pietro Tartini and by Verdi, will accompany the actors in a crescendo of emotion and involvement.

The performers are: Giulia Basel, Donatella Bracali, Emanuela D'Agostino, Antonella De Collibus, Umberto Marchesani, Chiara Sanvitale, Alessio Tessitore, Flavia Valoppi, Alessandro Vellaccio, Anna Paola Vellaccio, Massimo Vellaccio. Live sound Isabella Micati, sound engineer for musical recordings Renato Barattucci, assistant Matteo Panzieri.

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