Directed and performed here by Jurij Ferrini, Mandragola remains an incisive exploration of human nature and the emotional dynamics underpinning every deception. Ferrini entrusts Matteo Alì, Matteo Schiano Di Cola, and Angelo Tronca with this Renaissance text, approaching it with intellectual rigor and highlighting the characters’ moral complexity and the paradox between appearance and reality. The tension between virtue and cunning emerges with subtle irony, and centuries after its composition, Machiavelli’s comedy continues to speak powerfully to our present—still marked by greed, manipulation, and social pretenses.

by Niccolò Machiavelli
directed by Jurij Ferrini
Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale