Seventh Torinese – Bubacarr Bah and Alhagie Barra Sowe actors in “Dirty nigger”

Bubacarr Bah and Alhagie Barra Sowe, two Gambian non-professional actors, will on Sunday be characters in the award-winning Teatro del Sacro 2019 “Sporco Negro“. The two Gambians will perform at the Garibaldi Civic Theater in Settimo Torinese, Italy, in the regional debut of the “politically incorrect” performance produced by Kronoteatro, for the theatrical season “Battiti – Dentroefuori,” organized by Santibriganti Teatro.

The show was born with the idea of completely naked uncovered nerves, without any regard for the sweetened form of the socially acceptable and all the prejudices and fears that Italy has towards racial differences.

On stage, the two actors from the Gambia will play alongside Thomas Blanc, a historical member of the Kronoteatro theatre company. They present to the audience a racially and politically incorrect cabaret on beak and xenophobic thought, made public by years of media culture in Italy, spanned and imbued with subtle and suffocating racism…

When you watch the spectacle, you laugh, with the belief that you are far from that way of thinking, but you’ll also wonder if that’s really the case.

The actors, led by Maurizio Sguotti, explore a theme that can only be urgent, eviscerating it from different points of view, starting from the most uncomfortable, reckless, and indelicate ones, thus putting to the sedan part of us that, more or less consciously, relegates the negro to the folkloric imagination of cinematic and speckled stereotypes.

The show pushes us to wonder how welcoming, multiethnic, open, and available those who consider themselves, then do not fall into the stylized imagination, the comforting established and how much the so-called, moderate Westerners are not to be “dirty whites,” at the same time the object and subject of the show.

With “Dirty Negro” Bubacarr Bah and Alhagie Barra Sowe hope to expose prejudices and racial fears at Settimo Torinese’s Teatro Garibaldi in Italy.