Birds of Passage

"Birds of Passage" is a story-show, a story-concert and at the same time a confession, a finding of one another again. It is a story about secrets never told, never acknowledged, never owned. It is a confession of a love torn in two, the testimony of the one who waits and of the one who left. Like an open wound, love seeks healing. It would like to get past reproach. It would like to overcome distance, time, growing old. It would like to hold on to hope, to flight. It is a love story: a love shared, a love torn between duty and ideals. A story about emigration, about longing and calling, about hope and reconciliation, about light and the need to light a candle, a lantern in the dark of the night, to make light bloom under the moon; about the wish to forgive, about the impossibility of forgetting and of getting past what one has felt. Music too is a central character of the production. It gives life to the two lovers, forever in love, aged perhaps before their time, but undaunted and undefeated in their love. Music also carries off their souls and guides their imagination, a bridge across time and space, across ideological or religious conviction. Like an ever-present witness, moved and moving, to the love of the two protagonists, those lamplighter-troubadours forever in love, music accompanies them through the labyrinth of love and of the hope of finding each other again. Music and love are, in the end, the light of these two lovers.