California Italian Studies

Rumore di acque / Noise in the Waters is a facing-page translation into English of the theater piece Rumore di acque, created by Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe, first presented in Ravenna in July 2010 and subsequently throughout Italy. The piece consists of the relentless, embittered monologue of a military bureaucrat stationed underground in a mid-Mediterranean island, whose duty is to tally the dead who have perished attempting to make the crossing from Africa to Italy. The CIS translation includes a brief biography of Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe.