Hotpsot

Summer 2018. Migrant control centre at Pozzallo, in the south of Sicily, Italy. A police officer must take the fingerprints of a migrant and interview her about the details of her journey. Invited to take part in the scene, the participants find themselves at the centre of the interrogation. Translator, mediator, confidant, what is their role? They will be witnesses to a tumultuous scene. Hotspot is a skillful mix of participatory theatre and virtual reality. This situation, inspired by actual migrant stories, allows participants to embed themselves directly into the paradigm of the other, that other that is perhaps ourselves. It is not a game in which they are the hero. At a time when this human tragedy is rendered mundane, with the trafficking of undesirables, the criminalization of solidarity and the steady rise of hatred, the Hotspot project attests to its necessity.