A Tuscan Village Bares Its Soul on Stage, Again and Again<br />She has been acting for three years and going to theater classes during the winter "many more years." "I like the theater<br />because so many people come to Monticchiello for this," she said.<br />21, 2017<br />MONTICCHIELLO, Italy — This walled village of just 200 residents perched in the hills south<br />of Siena has always been a little isolated and, perhaps, a little conflicted about it.<br />SLOVENIA ITALY Tuscany region Siena Province Monticchiello Rome Elba Naples Tyrrhenian Sea Sardinia Mediterranean Sea Sicily SEPT. 21, 2017<br />While Monticchiello may seem a paradise, some residents feel as cut off as their predecessors<br />did in the 1960s, when farmers left their fields to go work in the cities.<br />Roberto Giani said that Let’s take a look at our possible future, imagine what we don’t yet have, or is there but it’s crumbling,<br />In real life, Mr. Giani left Monticchiello after working low-paying jobs for years and moved north to Bologna to study liberal arts.<br />In this year’s performance, Valeria Cardini, a red-haired 11-year-old, played a schoolgirl —<br />but one attending the same class as her older and younger brothers because the village didn’t have enough children to organize more than one class.<br />"But once the theater is over, it’s just empty." In the off-season, residents have one A.T.M., a post office open three days a week,<br />and a public space, once the farm’s granary, where older residents can leave their medical prescriptions and collect their drugs later, or buy daily papers.
