Bachisio is a simple man, strongly tied to his land. Together with his wife and son, like many other farmers, he is fighting against a large company, “Bentulare”, which has purchased enormous plots of land throughout Sardinia to cultivate them intensively. His son, Michelangelo, a graduate in agriculture, has been trying for years to combine the ancient agricultural knowledge of his grandparents with scientific research and productivity, in a...

Once upon a time there was a mother who wasn’t a mother yet. Once upon a time there was a daughter who isn’t here yet.   Mignolina is a little girl born between the petals of a flower, as tall as a finger, so small that she can hide inside a book. Together with her we venture through the pages made of cloth and paper, with fantastic and monstrous animals, kind and selfish creatures, with the sun and the rain, above and below the earth...

The name Pasqua Selis Zau, known as Paskedda Zau, will mean nothing to some. Yet she is the commoner from Nuoro, mother, widow, of ten children, who on April 26, 1868 unleashed the popular uprising against the effects of the Legge delle Chiudende (the legislative provision issued in 1820 during the Savoy domination in Sardinia, which authorized the enclosure of lands that until then had traditionally been considered collective property, effective...

Giulio Pasquati, from Padua, stage name Pantalone, and Girolamo Salimbeni, from Florence, stage name Piombino, are two actors from the famous Comedians Gelosi company, active and applauded throughout Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries. They are alive by a miracle. They go on stage to tell how they escaped the gallows thanks to Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, but above all thanks to the audience. The adventures of one of the most famous comic c...

Once upon a time there was a mother who wasn’t a mother yet. Once upon a time there was a daughter who isn’t here yet.   Mignolina is a little girl born between the petals of a flower, as tall as a finger, so small that she can hide inside a book. Together with her we venture through the pages made of cloth and paper, with fantastic and monstrous animals, kind and selfish creatures, with the sun and the rain, above and below the earth...

"We started from the story of Pinocchio, which everyone knows, to write and scenically invent new adventures for this character who has been part of the collective imagination for many years. The point of view we adopted, the lens through which we reviewed all his adventures, is that of safety. All-round safety, to tell children how precious this body that is lent to us is and how much we must learn to take care of it in all aspects of our lives....

The show is a tribute to the figure of Dante and his work in the seven hundredth anniversary of his death. A creation that investigates how to address an audience of young people by offering them a scenic journey to the Inferno of the Divine Comedy, largely respecting its narrative plot and stripping down, simplifying the plot, inventing a language that is sustainable for very young contemporaries but that does not betray the symbolic heart of Da...

The show takes a fun journey touching on the most disparate themes in a rapid and syncopated formula. Today, tomorrow, youth, old age, the relationship between men and women, jealousy. A show that talks a lot about women: about successful women, from Meloni to Patti Pravo who fights with the passing years, about those women who ask ‘If not now, when’ and those who ask ‘For an hour, how much’. The economic crisis is then addressed, the con...

Once upon a time there was a mother who wasn’t a mother yet. Once upon a time there was a daughter who isn’t here yet.   Mignolina is a little girl born between the petals of a flower, as tall as a finger, so small that she can hide inside a book. Together with her we venture through the pages made of cloth and paper, with fantastic and monstrous animals, kind and selfish creatures, with the sun and the rain, above and below the earth...

Pinin is a solitary inhabitant of the woods. He hasn’t returned to town for a long time. To the few who manage to find him, he talks about his life, about a long journey, about a love, about memories, about possible worlds. And about “masche”, friends and strangers, protectors and cruel. To meet Pinin, you have to go to his places, which are far from civilization, from the noises of today. So you have to first walk along small paths and the...

What determines the non-contradiction between the mafia culture and the Catholic one? How is it possible within the same Church to have a God of executioners and a God of victims? On stage, it is a mafioso himself who speaks: the stories and facts are filtered through his gaze. The Mafia can count on powerful myths, rites, rules and symbols of strong appeal, without which it would be like a people without religion, without ideology. The mafiosi h...

Pojana’s older brothers: Edo the security guard, Tonon the rodent exterminator, Alvise the black man and others, saw the light the day after April 1, 2014. On that day, in fact, Italy discovered that in a warehouse in Casale di Scodosia (a municipality in the Venetian province known for its furniture factories and allegorical floats) a second Tanko was being built, an armored earthmoving machine, with a ‘small cannon’ in the turret. My part...

The night was black like when it's about to rain, or rather, like when you know it's going to rain and not only that, like when something is about to happen, maybe it will be the wind, which will knock down the trees and flood the fields, and that everything pulls and takes, that the silence becomes like glass, that everything sinks…I was waiting… I put my hands on my head, like this… I didn't want to feel if the sky was falling, because it...

I came into possession of a copy of the Odyssey quite early: when I was in middle school, my father ran the book stand at my neighborhood Festa dell’Unità, while my mother reigned supreme over the steaming kitchens. The rain had damaged a prose version from Garzanti, and my father gave it to me as a gift. There was no difference, for me, between Tolkien and Homer, it was a great story, or rather a story of stories, in which I had no trouble ...

…I was a fighter who was not lucky in the immediate fight, and fighters cannot and should not be pitied, when they fought not because they were forced to, but because they themselves consciously wanted to. Antonio Gramsci Gramsci Antonio called Nino tells fragments of the life of one of the most precious men of the twentieth century. An absolutely private life: in the background, and only in the background, the tormented relationship with the...

There are stories that need to be told because they are beautiful, they are important, they have value. Since I have worked as a teacher in a hospital I have been lucky enough to see and experience many of them and I wanted to tell them, because we know that if you tell a beautiful story, if you share it, it becomes even more beautiful. This story was born from the question that I have been asked most often in the last fourteen years: "How do you...

Winner of the National Festival of Children's Theatre of Padua Friends of Emanuele Luzzati “For having represented with a few, punctual and suggestive scenic elements, a harmonious and perfectly balanced show from the narrative, acting, lighting, sound and audience involvement points of view. For the ability to draw from different traditions (Berber and Sardinian) and to venture into an exploration of archetypes on courage, initiation, loss and...