Amore positivo al Teatro Serra la vita oltre la malattia

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A cry of resistance beyond stigma. “Positive Love” is a production of “La nuova Comune,” written and performed by Alessio Palumbo, who is also the author of the music, a finalist in 2024 for the “Serra-Campi Flegrei” Award with the short version. It is a Civil Theatre event taking place from February 6 to 8 (Friday and Saturday at 9:00 PM, Sunday at 6:00 PM) at the Teatro Serra in Naples, located at Via Diocleziano 316, which will welcome the audience with an exhibition by poet Ilenia A. Sicignano and the group of Bolognese artists “I conigli bianchi.” For more information: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793.

A young man is waiting in front of a clinic, nervously tormenting the long Kevlar cord twisted around his hips with his hands, while confiding in those present, speaking without inhibitions. He says he is HIV-positive, recounting life before the diagnosis: childhood in a Catholic family, a tumultuous and frantic life between Milan and Naples, dissatisfaction, alienation, emotional emptiness, superficial relationships. Finally, the tests and the verdict, the beginning of a personal journey that leads him to a new perspective on the disease, no longer a sentence, but a spur for a renewed existence that dismantles the prejudice of dividing bodies into “healthy” and “disabled.” A dichotomy made explicit from the title: “positive” is the clinical finding, but so is the healing love. Like that of the woman who has never abandoned him and whom he waits for to share his fate, whatever it may be. And from an unbearable bond, the cord transforms into an indissoluble connection and still a means of salvation.

“This is a text drawn from reality; it speaks of a virus with dramatic epidemiological statistics, even though it is no longer deadly; of stereotypes about health in the performance society and of a salvific love,” says the author.

“Positive Love”
Text, direction, interpretation and staging music by Alessio Palumbo
Poetry by Ilenia A. Sicignano
Exhibition by “I conigli bianchi”
Production by La nuova Comune

Friday, February 6, 2026, at 9:00 PM
Saturday, February 7, 2026, at 9:00 PM
Sunday, February 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM

Contacts: teatroserra@gmail.com, 347.8051793
Link: https://youtu.be/kVLKtF_W5eE
Web: www.facebook.com/teatroserra/