The theater goes to the mountain:the protagonists of mountaineering on the stages of the Italian CAI path

Theatrical tour of 22 shows from June to October between the Alps and the Apennines.First stop at the Trastevere theater, in Rome, on May 31st and June 1st, on the Livata-Cervara route

MILAN – From Sicily to Trentino, 22 open-air theater shows to learn the stories of the protagonists who have climbed the highest peaks of the Bel Paese (and beyond), since the foundation of the Italian Alpine Club to date.The history of mountaineering in fact takes place on CAI Italy Path which, with approximately 8,000 kilometers is the longest hiking route in Europe and crosses the entire Apennine and Alpine ridge, from south to north of the country.The Italian Alpine Club organize with the theater company “(S)legati"the project"Sentiero Italia – The mountain stage”, a theater tour in 11 stages along the Sicai, for as many regions of Italy, with a total of 22 performances from June to October 2024.

FROM QUINTINO SELLA TO ANTONIA POZZI, ON STAGE THE STORIES OF THOSE WHO LOVED THE MOUNTAINS

The objective is to tell the story of the Association through the people who have marked its past and recent history.From Quintino Sella to Vitale Bramani, passing through Ninì Pietrasanta, Ettore Castiglioni, Guido Rossa, Antonia Pozzi, Federica Mingolla And Matteo Della Bordella.Each stage, organized thanks to the involvement of the CAI sections, is made up of a spectacle downstream, in the theater or in the square chosen from the repertoire of the company and of an upstream representation, for shelters and outdoors: a theatrical tale about the lives of the great characters in the history of mountaineering.

THE FIRST APPOINTMENTS ON THE CALENDAR

Let's start, with the first confirmed dates, Friday 31 May in Rome with the performance of the show “Even impossible dreams” (Trastevere Theatre, 9pm), followed on Saturday June 1st, from the theatrical story about the figure of Ettore Castiglioni during the excursion in the Livata – Cervara di Roma stage.The two-day event is organized by Cai Rome.We continue Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th Juneor in Friuli-Venezia Giulia with the show “Even impossible dreams” (Lestizza Municipal Auditorium Theatre, 9pm) and with the story about the figure of Guido Rossa at the peak of the excursion along the Cai 635 path, in the stage that goes from the Difesa Julia refuge (Sella Nevea) to the Gilberti Soravit refugeor. The event is organized by Friulian Alpine Society and is part of the collateral activities of the program to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the section. Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd it's the turn of the sections Cai of Bolzano, Laives and Appiano who organize “Another Everest” (Theater of the Muses of Pintea di Laives, 8.30 pm) and the story on Ninì Pietrasantto the Oltradige Refuge.The first part of the tour ends with the stage organized by Cai Bergamo Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th July with “Even impossible dreams” and the story about Antonia Pozzi at Rifugio Calvi, arrival point of the D18S stage and departure of the D19S.All information will be available directly from the organizing sections.

CAI PROJECT WITH (S)LEGATI, THE FIRST THEATER AND MOUNTAINEERING COMPANY

“This project denotes the CAI's ever-increasing sensitivity towards theatrical performances, in the belief that dramaturgy has the ability to arouse strong emotions and involve spectators, transmitting to them in the most effective way the values ​​and ideals of the mountains, which are those proper to the Italian Alpine Club”, he declared Angelo Schena.added member of the Central Steering Committee of the CAI.
Born in 2008 from the artistic union of Mattia Fabris And Jacopo Bicocchi, professional actors and mountain enthusiasts, Compagnia (S)legati is the first theater and mountaineering company.Their name comes from the first show they put on, "Untied", in which they staged the incredible story of Joe Simpson And Simon Yates told by Simpson himself in “Dead Death”.Today their repertoire also includes:“Another Everest”, the true story of an emblematic climb to Mount Rainier (United States) by two friends who emerge completely changed, and “Even impossible dreams”, about the life of Fausto De Stefani, the second Italian after Messner to have climbed all 14 8000ers.