On Friday, August 22, 2025, at 8:30 PM, the Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum (at Via Roma no. 48 in Cedegolo) will host the show "My Brother on the Trees".
Centopercento Teatro presents a theatre and aerial acrobatics show in which a child named Biagio divides himself into three and tries to confront his mythical and revolutionary older brother Cosimo, who had decided never to set foot on the ground again.
“I will not come down anymore!” thus, from the branch of an oak tree, a rebellious twelve-year-old declared to his eight-year-old little brother: the promise never to touch the ground again and to live forever in the trees. From here (and from a plate full of snails) begin the adventures of the two: the elder jumping from trunk to trunk, from canopy to canopy, the younger following his brother's adventures, now worried, now excited, now scared, but always attracted by a bond that the distance between the earth and the highest leaf cannot break.
The protagonist of the show is the younger brother of the rebellious Cosimo; the little Biagio from Calvino's novel, witness and narrator of the elder's actions, for the occasion, becomes three, multiplying into the three actresses and acrobats on stage. In this adaptation, they will immediately be put to the test, still twelve years old: Cosimo, without looking back, has just flown away, clinging to a hot air balloon, leaving his little brother alone for the first time, with no one to chase and no “hero” whose deeds to narrate. Here, with this abandonment, the image of a brother who has absorbed everyone's attention until now (including Biagio's) is questioned and, perhaps, the possibility of discovering something new, turning one's eyes towards oneself.
Production: Centopercento Teatro
in collaboration with: Centopercento Lab
directed and adapted by Antonio Panice
with Chiara Cervati, Monica Vitali and Silvia Caviggia
freely adapted from Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees
Admission: full price 6.00 €, reduced 4.00 €, free from the 2° child (inclusive) onwards, free for children under 6 years.
For information: +39 0364 61 196 / +39 342 84 75 113 / cedegolo@musilbrescia.it