I’ve been improvising for over 20 years, and I have no intention to quit, even under torture. Improvisation is now a part of me, and that unique feeling of stepping on stage without having the slightest idea of what we’re going to tell is as important to me as air.
In these years of teaching, I’ve felt more like a “coach” than a “teacher,” and I’ve tried to transmit my enthusiasm and my point of view.
I’ve played with the historic Belleville company, and then with the Ravenna-based 05QuartoAtto, of which I’m also a founding member.
Improvisation is the oldest role-playing game of all time. It’s the one that you spend days playing, turning a flashlight into a lightsaber or a vacuum cleaner into a proton pack. And there’s nothing that makes me happier than knowing that, deep down, that 13-year-old boy with the dreamy eyes of someone who lived adolescence like magic is anything but “gone.