IL CODISTA a performance IN ITALIAN about standing in line.

Il Codista is a text about identity and the desire to sometimes go slower. Based on the story of Giovanni Cafaro, a Milanese man who lost his job and stood in line for others for payment, Marleen Scholten wrote a new text about standing still. Standing still in line (la coda), for others in this case. In the line she finds chaos and simplicity; people who come together in a place with only one goal: waiting until it is their turn. Perhaps not every answer is immediately within reach. Together with the audience, the codista waits for his turn. ‘I don't want to be the first, rather the last. The faster the world goes, the more I slow down. I go against the current. Like a salmon. For a codista, the world is the other way around.’