by Silvestro Ziccardi freely adapted from "The Plasterer's Donkey" by Luigi Capuana Once upon a time there was a plasterer who had many donkeys, skinny, ugly and dirty; but among all these donkeys he had one that was the ugliest of all. He was thin, gaunt, dirty, all crooked, mangy, with a flayed tail, his legs so ruined that he seemed to be able to stand up by a miracle. But when his master shouted: "Forward fiery!"... the donkey raised his head...

Olivetti is the story of Camillo, the pioneer, the inventor, the capricious and brilliant nonconformist who founded, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the first Italian typewriter factory. With the help of biographies, interviews, literary texts (Natalia Ginzburg's witty description of him in Lessico Familiare was indispensable), his life, the figures around him, his environment and his enterprises have been reconstructed. The narrative ...

Stop Making Sense (SMS) is part of a multi-year research project called In Movimento that places the encounter with otherness at the center of the scenic work. That is: not so much the inclusion of the individual performer as an individual with a handicap, but rather as a bearer of a different ability. SMS includes people of different ages, genders, geographical origins, skills, psycho-physical conditions, abilities. For us at Rossolevante, theat...

RADIO ARGO is a contemporary rewriting of the Oresteia, which however retains a high, at times lyrical language, avoiding actualizations that place the story in contemporary events. Mazzotta, through a clear, essential direction, passes from one character to another (from Iphigenia to Orestes, passing through a radio commentator who plays the chorus) in a path that recomposes character after character a precise scheme made of microphone stations ...

Gene mangia gene, is a bilingual show in Italian and Campidanese Sardinian. The performance, tinged with caustic irony, allows for careful reflection on the foods we put on the table and shows us, ourselves: excited and sweaty while driving a trolley through the aisles of a supermarket; happy and eager for “something good” while watching TV; falsely contrite for the death of a worker on a banana plantation; participating in Monsanto’s pain;...