Performers:
The witch – Lucia Nesi
The saint – Erika Stoppini
The ghost – Giulia Bona
The courtesan – Federica Cogliati
The pirate – Federica Caslotti
The fortune teller – Angelica Fascella
The fire-eater – Stefano Peri
The kidnappers – Giulio Melacarne and Laura Marino
The projectionist – Alessio Zanovello
Me – Camilla Battista

We would like to thank the performers, the Under Teatro theatre company and the Compagnia dei Piccoli di Lodi.
Thanks to the Rivanazzano Theatre, the Mæcenarts association, and the Dartevaria cultural association.

THE BOOK

“Piccole poesie di famiglia” by Michał Rusinek, illustrated by Joanna Rusinek, translated by Linda Del Sarto with poetic advice and afterword by Chiara Carminati. 

“My family, seen from the outside, is a bit like any other… But do you think there really is a normal family? I am convinced that in each of us there is some strangeness, each of us has had some adventure, each of us can tell some bizarre anecdote. And the same goes for families! Here you have the complete and extravagant catalogue of my family (of ours, actually, since my sister is the book’s illustrator), told through 50 little poems inspired by our ancestors: there are the kidnappers (which one is the real culprit?), the flight attendant, the tailor, the prisoner and many others!”

A collection of poems written and illustrated in an ironic, fresh and hilarious tone, inviting young readers to look at those around them with different eyes and try their hand at drawing the family tree of their own family.

The ironic and brilliant style of Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska is reborn in the poems of her most trusted friend: Michał Rusinek

WHERE CAN I BUY THE BOOK?

Clic here to buy the book. Don’t forget that there is also a digital edition!