“Sconfinati” corpi: sull’uso del teatro per insegnare l’italiano ai ragazzi migranti

Abstract

Scenes from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot were employed in Rome to teach Italian to a group of immigrant teenagers in a Public School. The Drama workshop helped to develop a collaborative group of students by encouraging exchanges, friendships and cooperative learning. The workshop became a space of freedom, where to enact peacefully the internal conflicts that arise in immigrant boys and girls when building a new, multi-cultural identity. From my students I learned that theatre could be that common language that enables all of us to weave constructive and meaningful relations between different cultures.