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Carmelo Rifici created this stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Relations Dangereuses. The violent and brutal nature of the original novel's letters is echoed by the ideas of a [...]

Richard III has always been a source of fascination because of his violent, manipulative and reclusive character. The Duke of Gloucester, a misshapen and deceitful murderer, is unquestionably one of [...]

When The Dead Kill The Living Set against graphic animations by cartoonist Andrea Bruno, Claudio Casadio breathes life into an unforgettable character: Oreste, a mental asylum patient in Imola. After [...]

What would a body say if it could write a diary? In 2012 Daniel Pennac attempted to answer that question with a novel that, through physical changes only, chronicled a [...]

Agamemnon + The Libation Bearers /The Eumenides Davide Livermore portrays the collapse of a power system by staging the only tragic trilogy that has survived in its entirety. The director [...]

Five Invectives, Seven Women And A Funeral Five 20th-century women artists, Dora Maar, Amelia Rosselli, Carol Rama, Maria Lai and Lisetta Carmi take to the stage to speak out one [...]

What Walruses Know An icebreaker is sailing to the South Pole to save the Earth. Yet, despite the impending calamity, our attention, and that of the three main characters, focuses [...]

After The Pleasure of Honesty, Valerio Binasco returns with another of the Sicilian playwright's masterpieces. An Italian theatre classic that, even to this day, succeeds in generating the quality and [...]

This razor-sharp comedy, written by British director David "D.C." Moore in 2012 and inspired by Lynn Shelton's film Humpday, is the story of a long-standing male friendship and explores issues [...]

After addressing the idea of the Other as a threat in his Le Misanthrope, Leonardo Lidi presents a piece by a promising young Italian playwright, 21-year-old Diego Pleuteri. What is [...]

The Weston family assembles in Osage County, Oklahoma, for the funeral of their patriarch, the poet and alcoholic Beverly. The reunion will spark an intense and amusing reckoning among the [...]

In the United States, at the turn of the 20th century, "Boston Marriage" referred to the cohabitation of wealthy, independent women. Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet uses the term for [...]

Ivana Ferri brings the story of Stefano Quondam to the stage, adapting it from one of Roberto Vecchioni's novels. Like a courageous but misunderstood contemporary Don Quixote, Stefano Quondam, a [...]

Lazarus is one of David Bowie's last works. In 2015 he adapted some of his best-known songs for this musical, which he wrote with Irish playwright Enda Walsh. This testament-performance [...]

This new season's preview is a revelation in terms of direction and performance. García Lorca's violent world, as directed by Leonardo Lidi, is an unrelenting quest for freedom and happiness. [...]

Filippo Dini directs and stars in Ibsen's iconic play, together with Deniz Özdoğan as Nora. The production upends traditional direction approaches, with a new take on the Helmer household conflict. [...]

After the stunning seasons of Mistero buffo, Matthias Martelli, an extraordinary artist who has revitalised the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, takes on Dante Alighieri, under the direction of Emiliano Bronzino, and [...]

Giuseppe Cederna, Vanessa Gravina, Roberto Valerio (who is also the director) appear in this sophisticated version of Molière's masterpiece, a satirical depiction of hypocrisy and a timeless political comedy. Today's [...]

A masterful balance between noir and comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace has preserved the subversive energy that made Frank Capra's film with Cary Grant and Boris Karloff so famous. Gleijeses [...]

On the Day of the Dead, an old man, alone in an empty house, mixes the dough to make a pupo di zucchero (sugar puppet). As he waits for the [...]