text Pietro Babina
music Alberto Fiori
on stage Serena Abrami, Pietro Babina, Alberto Fiori
set design and costumes Pietro Babina
production Mesmer and Compagnia Orsini
stage photographs Claudia Maini
with the support of Comune di Bologna, Ravenna Teatro, Agorà, Spazio Zut, Culturara/Casa della Cultura Italo Calvino, Giordano Bruno
special thanks to Sementerie Artistiche

In Sole e Baleno the dramaturgical structure echoes that of Brecht and Weil's The Threepenny Opera. On stage, dialogues, songs and electronic music unravel a tale that brings together the parables of Romeo and Juliet and Sacco and Vanzetti in a single drama, in which the great engines of tragedy act: love and death, power and injustice.
The story is freely inspired by a true story that really happened in the 1990s, that of Sole and Baleno, two young people united by their idealism. When the court in Turin accuses them of being responsible for some episodes of eco-terrorism, they are imprisoned for subversive association. The accusation will be invalidated by the Court of Cassation in 2001, but the harshness of that preventive detention plunges them into despair and they both choose to kill themselves within a few months of each other.