A musical theatre performance about being on the road and wanting to reach the top in a world that threatens to become unlivable.
'There is only one way to escape the abyss: look into it, measure, probe and descend.' - Cesare Pavese

Two friends cycle up Vesuvius. They talk, sing about the things that concern them. About Naples, cycling, Goethe, Pompei. It's about volcanoes and the constant threat of an eruption. They reminisce about Vesuvius' last eruption. They hit the pedals once more, preferably to be the first on top of that mountain. Cycling and these two figures pedalling, seemingly banal, with their strava app on, towards the apocalypse, the crater of the volcano. They are an allegory for humanity and its climate.

Seeing (and Dying) Naples will be a poetic-societal, semi-documentary, multidisciplinary musical theatre performance that takes the volcano as a breeding ground and thinking tool to reflect on our relationship with our planet.

Starting from different disciplines, we explore our desire to reach the top and our impotence to face the danger in a world that threatens to swallow up in an all-consuming eruption. Fact and fiction are woven into a musical, sung theatre text, accompanied and in dialogue with two live musicians who create a contemporary southern Italian folk soundtrack.