The mirror reflects images but does not tell the whole truth about who we are. We should break it, let it shatter into a thousand pieces, rather than really understand what lies inside each of us: conflicting feelings, insecurities but also pride, the desire to give up and tenacity, courageous identity or modesty. In short, the thousand and more facets of the human being. In just one evening the Castroliberese director Maria La Cava wanted to bring them to a stage, that of Garden cinema-theater of Rende, giving life to true stories and a social experiment translated into a theatrical show that smells of musicals and flirts with reality. Stories told by ordinary people and jealously guarded by those who chose to bring them on stage drawing on the great artistic and singing skills of the actors and actresses who gave life to “Mirror Effect”. A boy with a disability who never stops dreaming, parents who don’t feel like less parents just because they haven’t given their lives, a father committed to fighting against the ghosts of his daughter’s illness. And again: the theme of homosexuality and gender identity still experienced by society as a taboo until an intense light comes to dominate the darkness of ignorance and cultural legacies; women who live in the shadow of men, putting themselves aside and, above all, the stereotypes dispensed in abundance by society: too tall for, too short if, too thin, too different. Many small pieces of fragments of a social mirror that returns the true truth only when it breaks. And when, on the other side, there are those who are willing to wear ever-changing glasses to observe it. Without judging, helping others to accept themselves as they are.
The cast
Maria La Cava was supported by vice-director Stefania Martini in staging the show. The actress Caterina Misasi embellished the work as a narrated voice. The cast of interpreters of the stories of “Mirror Effect” is also numerous: Augusto Nunzio Porco, Davide Carpino, Maria Teresa Chiappetta, Federica Filice, Chiara Luce De Vito, Donatella Biafore, Massimo Candè, Pasquale Sicilia, Maria Francesca Sicilia, Rossella Tocci, Sara De Luca, Erica Fuoco, Alessandro Giordano, Maria Teresa Di Cianni, Marco D’Ippolito, Benedetta Costabile and the same Maria La Cava who animated the final story. All accompanied by the explosive voice of singer Morea.