“I have a dream”, said one of the greatest man the world has ever seen. Today we repeat this sentence, maybe with softer terms, with reference to Universo Teatro and to its dream of becoming a meeting point for young people all over the world. These people share a gorgeous passion for performing arts. Today, in the age of videocracy, helping young people to keep on studying these arts, seems to be a rhetorical and old-fashioned aim.

On the contrary, this is a clear choice that we are making: we are against the current approach to life, where selfishness, isolation and absence of the civil society reign. Our dream is that the young people will keep on meeting and sharing their passion here in Benevento, because this town aims at becoming a point of reference for international and University theatre.

During a well-known speech at the Brandenburg Gate, JFK said “Ich bin ein Berliner”, aiming at highlighting the need to go beyond the ideas of borders, divisions, and move towards a new world view, where everyone could feel at home, regardless of where he/she is, regardless of the colour of the skin or of the faith. We would like to hear the hundreds of young people who will attend the III edition of Universo Teatro, to utter a sentence like this (maybe in Arabic, Spanish or English): “I am a citizen of Benevento”, as a symbol of the enthusiasm for the warm welcoming, the beauty, and the quality of this artistic proposal. Will this dream become true? We hope so. Yes we can!