Campobello – Schlachthaus Theater

Campobello is a theatrical play that intertwines reality and fiction to give voice to a Europe on the margins: a Europe sustained by the invisible labour of migrant workers and by the fragility of those living in the continent’s social peripheries.

Set in a small town in western Sicily, the performance tells the story of the encounter between Simona and Amadou, two parallel lives united by a love that becomes a political act and a form of resistance.The result of more than two years of research in olive-picking areas, the work combines real-life testimonies, live music, and a stage language that blends Italian, French, and Bambara.

Director Eva-Maria Bertschy, together with Abou Bakar Sidibé and Daniela Macaluso, constructs a contemporary parable about institutional indifference, new forms of exploitation, and the solidarity that continues to emerge on the margins.
With an ever-evolving set design and original music that weaves together African traditions and European melodies, Campobello becomes a portrait of a contradictory Europe: a place of inequality, but also of community, resistance, and possibility. traduci in italiano