Ubu Award 2019 – Second place in the category Best new text or dramatic writing Written and directed entirely by Perrotta, In nome del padre was born from an intense exchange with psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati, who has dedicated much of his work to family relationships. A father. One and three. Nothing transcendental: in the body of a single actor, three fathers very different from each other in terms of social class, geographical origin, wo...

Cassandra’s talent as a prophetess is traced back to the animal, uncivilized, and wild sphere. In the Oresteia the chorus compares her incomprehensible lament to the song of a nightingale: the title of this performance-cry comes from the response of the “unheard young woman”, where Cassandra’s battle is recalled by Stefania Tansini’s body-voice in the moments preceding her unjust killing as a slave/adulteress and ξένη/foreigner. ...

As soon as she woke up, Emma got out of the big bed, quickly dressed and rushed to the kitchen, like every morning, to have breakfast before going to school. Without thinking twice she took her mother's hands, looked her straight in the eyes and said in one breath: "Mom, can I go to school alone today?" Geografia bambina is the wonder of the world through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl, Emma. A first study of a “musical suite” for fragi...

The show tells the story of the young Garabed Surmelian, his family and life in Shevan, a small mountain village where everything still flows with the times dictated by nature and ancient rites. Through the words of a Meddah, a narrator of tradition, a passionate, curious and respectful fresco will appear, alternating intimate, emotional and profound moments with lighter and more fun ones to tell the story of birth, rites of passage, games and pa...

A diabolical woman, now in her seventies, Marie Maurestier enjoys the reputation of a murderer for having poisoned, during her life, three wealthy husbands. In front of this black lady, justice had to surrender and the woman lives her life quietly in the small community of Saint Sorlin en Bugey, flaunting swagger. It will be the arrival of the young Gabriel, the new parish priest, that will reawaken the powerful life-giving energy of Marie who, d...

It is said that Atlantis was a wonderful land, where justice and good reigned. Atlantis was beauty, a green land and cities with welcoming and shining architecture. Where is it now? Have you ever looked for it? How do you imagine it? In an unexpected and surprising way, two strange little men, united by a similar destiny, begin a journey. They will get lost and find themselves in a continuous reversal of reality, following the lights of the s...

“There’s no more time!” Amarilla cried disconsolately: “Without new trees for the forest it will be the end!” Left alone without any more sisters, Amarilla, a little plant with frail branches and few leaves, was very angry and a little sad. The Little Macchillotti Sparrows had caused quite a mess and Mr. Adelmo was too angry. Too much! Mr. Adelmo was so angry with the Little Macchillotti Sparrows who had eaten all the strawberries in hi...

"More than a hundred years ago, in Russia, on the border with Poland, in a village so small that it is not shown on any map, there lived a teacher. His name was Mendel Singer. He was an insignificant man. He was devoted to the Lord. He taught the Bible to children, as his father had done before him. He taught with great passion and little success. A stupid teacher of stupid children: that is what his wife Deborah thought of him." Thus begins this...

«In 1970, when Cagliari became champion of Italy, I was 8 years old. I don't remember much about the "scudetto", but I remember what the city was like, how we dressed, how we hung from the trams to avoid paying, the Panini album and the "sticker" games on the steps of the elementary school.I remember the medal table, with the profiles of the Cagliari players on fake, fake gold coins to collect.And I vaguely remember a shy boy, sometimes smiling,...

It is said that Atlantis was a wonderful land, where justice and good reigned. Atlantis was beauty, a verdant land and a city with welcoming and shining architecture. Where is it now? Have you ever looked for it? How do you imagine it? In an unexpected and surprising way, two strange men, united by a similar destiny, begin a journey. They will get lost and find themselves in a continuous reversal of reality, following the lights of the stars, lis...

On August 3, 1933, a military plane crashed into the mountains of the Susa Valley, near the village of Borgata Santa Chiara di Giaglione (TO). The pilot was a young 27-year-old Sardinian, Lieutenant Cesare Lai of the Royal Air Force. He was approaching the large meadow of Prà Plan used as an airstrip, but a group of children were playing on the grassy clearing bathed in sunlight.A fatal moment to decide, an emergency maneuver that saved the live...

Leonardo defines music as a way to draw what is not visible to the eye: "the figuration of invisible things", he writes. But more generally, all his art is a way to show what escapes the gaze: states of mind, internal anatomy, certain minute details of nature, certain almost imperceptible shadows.The expression, then, is particularly fitting also for another giant of his time: Michelangelo.Buonarroti is never satisfied with representing reality a...

It is said that Atlantis was a wonderful land, where justice and good reigned. Atlantis was beauty, a verdant land and a city with welcoming and shining architecture. Where is it now? Have you ever looked for it? How do you imagine it? In an unexpected and surprising way, two strange men, united by a similar destiny, begin a journey. They will get lost and find themselves in a continuous reversal of reality, following the lights of the stars, lis...

Did you know that bats contribute as much to the U.S. economy each year as Microsoft? And that the Sahara Desert fertilizes the Amazon rainforest? What do NASA astronauts and ancient Hindu ascetics have in common? Paradoxes, dazed characters, comical and disconcerting stories. A seemingly visionary monologue, but based on rigorously scientific data: to reflect on the very close link between ecology and economics, on what an ecosystem is, on how...

In a very influential book, Harold Bloom claimed that Shakespeare invented the human being: well, I don’t have the tools to confirm this statement. He certainly helped me, and many others like me, to better understand humanity, including my own. The Shakespearean corpus is a map of human relationships ready to use. “Ready to use”, as long as we continue to work on it, like mechanics, like gardeners, never considering it an immobile and immo...

A white shirt, a trumpet and a stool: that's all you need to tell the story of Charlemagne's paladins and the terrible Saracens. Camps, knights, duels, enchantments, armor, steeds... a whirlwind of battles and pursuits whose engine is always passion, real or imagined, for a woman, a knight, an ideal. Timeless stories of men from all times, in which everything is paradox, hyperbole, exasperation. Rediscover the pleasure of "fabulation" and the "fa...

There was a time when a journalist, from an important national newspaper, had it in his head to tell about his old man but also about himself and Arasolè, but above all to try to give an answer to an enigmatic question: did Giovanni Piras really become Juan Domingo Peròn? An extraordinary novel from the pen of Giovanni Maria Bellu, one of the most interesting and courageous Italian journalists, for a fantastic story, between Mamoiada, the Sard...

A show with texts by Luciano Bianciardi, a writer with a sharp irony and a clear view of the world and the future. The title is taken from the collection of short stories "La solita zuppa e altre storie", an incriminating story that in the Sixties, when the book was published, was the reason for a trial. The protagonist of the novella is a Milan where the taboo is not sex, but food. Among the stories "Quello strano viaggio (storia quasi metafisic...