An old record player full of old songs and a folkloric “theatrical shoe-shiner” ready to shine whatever you wear on your feet...even the feet themselves!!!
A delightful and remote corner of Italy in your towns: laughing, making coffee, drinking wine and chatting in all languages. A theatrical clown show and improvisation; anything can happen but in a simple, human and participatory way.
Shoeshine, is not meant to be a street show in the traditional sense, but rather an Encounter: an encounter between an actor and an audience.
In a society dominated by productivity, technological progress and haste, evoking the image of the shoeshine is meant to signify the importance and beauty of “pausing” ... to reflect, to breathe, to listen and thus perhaps to know, and to share by looking at it from a different perspective.
Shoes, however, can also be a tool to reflect, to remember and not to forget! So on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Nazi-fascist liberation, thanks also to the words of Primo Levi or Joyce Lussu, shoes become the strong symbol of a denied humanity, of absence, and of the strength that memory must transmit to us.
Our Shoeshine wants to “suggest” values of humility, calmness and humanity by putting oneself at the complete service of others and putting others at ease.
All this in a natural but definitely comic, ironic and poetic way, mixing improvisation skills and clownesque techniques in the first place, embellished with storytelling skills, and manipulation of objects
His theatrical style mixes circus, improvisation and comedy, often touching on issues related to environmental education.
