«A
van apparently without destination which travels during the night through
an unknown street; a route at blindman’s buff among extraneous bodies
which try to obstruct the path; a note-book of souvenirs from where it
figures faces, situations, stolen instants and unrepeatable moments; a
luggage apparently light which contains nevertheless thousand of words
that nobody has never pronounced in the same manner. These are only some
of the many suggestions that can be drawn from Stranieri».
Corriere del Ticino / Switzerland
A performance
which places the audience in front of the choice, which is not only creative,
but it concerns either theatrical ethics and life, of the laboratory as
a necessary place for the creation, as a condition to which we can not
renounce for the production».
La Regione / Switzerland
«Cristina
sows words … and the flowers come out.
A route made of sacrifices and renunciations, but flavoured with a great
creative strength, a great charism and a solid conviction accompanied
of an unusual firmness of aims. Traces of memories, rags of words and
signs well organised gathered into the pages of a travel book-note. Just
like Chatwin would had done if only he could have visited Castrillo in
her «heart of the earth», in that poetical land where the
landscape from bare transforms itself in a luxuriant nature contaminated
from intimated passion and from signs of a shed humanity..»
L’Azione / Switzerland
And here
the great final aesthetical-ethics as only Cristina Castrillo knows how
to invent. While the imagines projected become more excited, the actors,
each loaded with his/her wreckage, as vagabond-emigrants, go forward toward
the public, in order to go out of the stage guided by two figures, one
with a crutch, the other with a covered face, a lame, a blind that however
carries in one hand like a lantern a cage, in the cage a fragile little
paper ship and one candle..”
Giornale del Popolo / Switzerland
“Strangers
detaches itself from its own theatrality to become symbol.”
El Ciudadano – Argentina“I learnt a lot abaut structuring work.
I was impressed by the way they had worked out such a strong structure
for the creation of Stranieri , and i’ve put this into practice in
workshops i’ve taught, the idea of a workshop that has as its end
goal a public performance is ambitious and difficult to pull off, but
interesting because it gives participants the full experience – from
the fun, creative and experimental stage of workshopping and devising,
to the more difficult and sometines tedious process of refining and rehearsing,
and the experience of performing, the part of the process i like least,
to be honest.”
Magdalena Aotearoa / New Zealand