CABARET ARTICO – Giochiamoci il Clima

Cabaret Artico challenges theatre, the idea of a certain way of producing theatre and traditional forms of performance. With an artistic approach that combines professional theatre research with social and community theatre work, the show is the result of the encounter between culture and science, artists and people, and draws its content from thorough scientific research developed in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Crete, one of Green Ethics’ partners, and from opinions and information collected in more than 50 interviews conducted with climatologists, activists, inhabitants, students, adolescents, and the elderly.
Inspired by the game of goose, Cabaret Artico is an interactive performance that is both a show to watch and a game to play. The dramaturgy – from characters to musical choices – is influenced by the cabaret and café chantant genres from the early 1920s to the 1970s and combines singing, music, storytelling, and theatrical scenes, blending comedy and drama in a constant, witty, and sometimes irreverent dialogue with the audience.
The show features two actors, three musicians, a singer-actress, and 45 citizens from Turin and Moncalieri, who play a special role in the premiere. In a series of quick scenes, each of the game’s 24 squares presents a story or fact related to the climate crisis.
Cabaret Artico invites us to see ourselves as part of a larger ecosystem where humans and non-humans are interconnected, and all of us can and must contribute to its present and future existence, because together “we can (still) do it!”