Will be | quarta residenza

“Will Be” is not just the title of the work: it is the central meaning of a story about a young man,Will, fighting for his dream: to be recognised in a country that continues to consider him a foreigner, despite the fact that he was born and raised there.

Will can only express himself through music. With his songs, he would like to transform reality and overcome the barriers of prejudice. The street is his daily training ground, the place where he spends much of his time and where he has learned that life can be very hard and that people can be ruthless towards those considered to have different blood.

But “will” in English also means “determination”, and Will is ready to do anything. To defend his dream, he has built an imaginary fortress made of music, where the heroes are the singer-songwriters who have always accompanied him. Their words have given him the weapons to face hostility, feeding, day after day, his desire to make his voice heard by the world.
His songs tell all of this.

But the boundary between dream and reality is thin, and the question remains open: Will be? Will he really?

In the multidisciplinary performance, musical reinterpretations of songs by Lucio Dalla, Mirkoeilcane, Willie Peyote, Caparezza and original songs by singer-songwriter Silvio Padovani, known as Bohris – creator and leader of the performance, a student of the Second-Level Academic Programme in Music Production at Saint Louis – are combined with dance, acting and visual art.
The result is an original narrative that brings the complex themes of racism and prejudice to the stage through the “lightness” of art.

“Will be” is an artistic residency of “Playing Memories”, a project by the Saint Louis College of Music, in co-production with: Conservatorio Alfredo Casella di L’Aquila, Fondazione Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello spettacolo Teatro alla Scala di Milano, RUFA, ISIA di Roma.