With Rumba, Pueblo, and Laika, Ascanio Celestini has created a triptych that gives voice to the most wounded sides of humanity—an intense, poetic trilogy about the outcasts of our time: forgotten souls, fragile lives, stories ignited in the non-places of urban outskirts. The parking lot of a supermarket becomes a universal stage where God, a sex worker, a homeless man, or an African porter embody a suffering and luminous humanity. Celestini makes this light shine through the shadows—with a voice that is deep, ironic, uncomfortable, and necessary.
PUEBLO
In this chapter of the Trilogy, the protagonist, Violetta, rules from the seat of her checkout counter—a little throne where she receives daily tributes: salami, cheese, wine, cookies.
Her customers become gentle subjects offering gifts, in a game suspended between reality and fantasy. With irony and tenderness, the play reveals the hidden value of simple lives, turning ordinary gestures into a bittersweet tale, uncovering the poetry of everyday moments. Voiceover: Ettore Celestini