Childhood memories are largely made up of smells: bread and milk, chocolate, earth, water, mud, moss, wax, resin and wood, asphalt… We are intrigued by the idea of ​​making those who don’t know them smell the acrid smells of carbide and sulfur and of trying to tell the “forbidden games” of which, for entire generations of children, they were the ingredients. Let’s take a look at the humble and grandiose epic of a now lost mining Rom...

We, cranks operated by the unknown reality that punishes the vanquished and rewards the victors before punishing them too, we are the illustrious representatives of the defeated, of the presumptuous and dejected, of the disillusioned hopeful, of the vain in the mirror, of the "neverbeatenenough", of the useless charlatans, of the idiots. We have dared to deal with irony, unpreparedness and a lot of superficiality, of things bigger than us. To yo...

“A.A.A. Finely renovated stairs for rent. Wide view of the square, flowered window, panoramic telephone and 50s atmosphere. Tenants wanted, model of excellent neighbors”. Two men who are similar in every way rent the same stairwells at the same time and live happily and in unison their new life, but the unexpected is lurking and the idyll turns into a fierce clash with no holds barred. A clownish look at the stupidity of man. Where diversity ...

Giosuè, a child, is killed because he saw too much; no one knows who did it. A month after the night of St. Anthony, the night of the fires, a man is killed with a gunshot, and the next morning Giosuè's twin brother, Oreste, shows up in rags and soaking wet at the home of the Rudas, family friends who live in a town several kilometers from his. What happened? Is what we immediately imagine the truth? Does applying the law, punishing always mean...

The show is structured as a real itinerary that the audience is asked to travel through three different "gardens": the first is the garden of the Earth, the second garden is on the top of a hill in Monferrato. Finally the third garden, that of experience. Throughout the journey another story unfolds and intertwines with the first, that of the music composed and performed by Gianpiero Malfatto....

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Marcinelle tragedy Cìncali, that is: gypsies! That's what the Italians who emigrated to Switzerland thought they were called; it seems, instead, that it was a corruption of cinq, "five" in the language of the Padanian emigrants who played morra - ... yes, but it also meant gypsy! Almost a year of testimonies, a year of memories dusted off with difficulty. Memory is important because in 1990, when t...

It is the story of a relationship between a servant and a mistress. An ancient relationship, which has the appearance of a symbiosis, of an indissoluble union between two halves that cannot be separated. Two souls in one body. Two characters in one interpreter. Sofronia, a ferocious mistress who feeds on power, is hate. Nina, the servant who never cries, Nina the black, is love. Each will evoke human events and facts from the past and present, in...

From the need for a breath of fresh air, the first short study presented in Parma was born with the title “three sisters”. Freely inspired by that sad little Cinderella and her wretched father general… the tale of Cinderella has revealed itself as a tragedy. It is a cruel story, of cut off fingers, severed heels, gouged out eyes! Nothing is ever just what it seems, there is no more room for archetypes, good and evil, it is difficult to d...

At the shrill sound of the siren, the strange three-wheeled machines advance through the streets of an oppressed city, driven by two sinister figures in dark uniforms: the gruff Captain Beatty and Soldier Montag, repressed by iron discipline but ultimately gentle and cunning. These fire soldiers, followers of the dogmas of their King Toto, believe that the good of the country lies in arresting readers and burning all books. With a mixture of zeal...