We did it!

WE DID IT! is a performance that projects itself into the future to recount a world in which some of the crises that today compromise the possibility of life’s permanence on Earth have been overcome. Playing on the contrast between reality and fiction, the show becomes a hypothetical documentary to crumble the TINA (There Is No Alternative) paradigm, sharing both practices already in place and disruptive visions and inventions.

The form of the theatrical documentary, long frequented by Ateliersi, takes on a further value here: it crosses the reality/fiction overlap to become an opportunity for wonder and awareness. The show traverses the main nodes that characterise the changes we are facing – from climatic injustice to the exasperation of inequalities – proposing the story, as in a science fiction work, of the solutions that have been implemented in the future to evolve the cultural patterns that underpin our current living. These imagined solutions – the result of a continuous work recounted in the performance as real and already happened – find the right sound environment in the incredible dynamism of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, of which Ateliersi brings to the stage an electronic version.

The show travels in a 100% electric van that, in addition to moving the company and set design, is equipped with a system of solar panels mounted on the roof to produce – during the journey – the electricity needed to run the technical systems.

In the future time of WE DID IT! one of the central issues of contemporary life has been resolved: the redistribution of human beings on the planet. Metropolises are more liveable, ancient settlements have come back to life, intensive farming and livestock breeding have been rethought in favour of more widespread and sustainable production centres. Connecting to an ancient tradition, travelling theatre thus acquires a new meaning: some zero-impact caravans bring the most innovative theatre to the new agglomerations. The show thus takes on a metanarrative dimension, involving the people in the audience in the conscious world of which it tells.