Bobò

Theater and film director Pippo Delbono first met Bobò decades ago, in a psychiatric institution in southern Italy. Bobò, a man of small stature who was also deaf and illiterate, had hardly been treated as a human being in all his 46 years. Literally and figuratively, he had no voice. Delbono “rescued” Bobò and brought him into his modern theater company, a world filled with dance, improvisation, and music. Bobò turned out to be a natural in the theater; creatively, the two men brought out the best in each other and taught one another the art of life itself.