Ascanio Celestini – Poor Christians

On stage, with his lucid and powerful narrative, Celestini sensitively and without rhetoric recounts the forgotten lives of the suburbs, giving voice to society's "invisibles." With his talent for telling stories drawn from collective memory, each of his performances leaves audiences transformed, offering new food for thought.

In a suburb of Rome, which resembles many suburbs around the world, the lives of poor Christians. 

There's Job, an illiterate warehouse worker who has developed a technique for arranging goods in the warehouse without knowing how to read a word.
There's the Old Woman who teaches the Prostitute that money isn't needed for knowledge and culture: books in libraries are free, and museums open one day a month even to those who can't pay.
There's Joseph, who left his hometown, but before arriving in Italy he was a gravedigger, an emigrant, a slave, a shipwreck victim, a prisoner, a porter, and a homeless man.
And then there's the racist, the Hungry Woman, the eight-year-old Gypsy who smokes, Domenica, the Cooperative Supervisor, and even Saint Francis..."

Each performance tells a couple of stories, the lives of a handful of characters. Just like in a concert where the musician chooses different songs to play. All these characters, however, have a common playlist: they are the ones who end up in the newspapers when something serious, scandalous happens, and who on stage will be celebrated as saints when a miracle occurs.