Touring Roman social centres. A letter

An actor working in the young theatre group named "Scuola Ambulante di Teatro (Theatre travelling school) directed by Simone Capula, narrates his first steps in Rome into the world of Social Centres and occupied houses, which he and the group contacted with the aim of producing on their premises, the group's work. about Julian Beck, us well as organising a theatre seminar, They hoped to take their theatrical activities mainly to those Social Centres in which theatre tarts absent, A social centre is a facility which people squat in order to create a new space for cultural and political aggregation and whose management is entrusted to the very squatters. It is a phenomenon with many diversified facets, which has existed for almost three decades, and consists of miscellaneous centres, some focused more on culture, others on polities, some clever enough to attract hundreds of participants on particular occasions, and others frequented by just a few locals.