Since 2004, the year of its birth, the Teatro Boxer company has carried out various activities in the theatrical field.
Led by the author and actor from Padua Andrea Pennacchi, with the musician Giorgio Gobbo always at his side, Teatro Boxer produces prose shows and performance-lessons for high school students.
In over fifteen years of activity he has brought many shows to the stage, including: A Little Odyssey, My Father – Notes on the Civil War, Pojana and Her Brothers, Henry IV – A School for Kings, Trenches: Spring Awakening, Heroes – Finalist for the Off Prize of the Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Raixe Storte, Shakespeare’s Venetian. Numerous are his performance lessons for high school students, born thanks to the collaboration with Arteven: A Ferocious Spring, Long Live Verdi!, Galileo – The Mountains of the Moon and Other Miracles, Captain Salgari to the Rescue, The Tao of Bruce Lee (a Dragon in the Garden).
The latest, young, productions that debuted in recent years are The merry wives of Windsor and A midsummer night’s dream by William Shakespeare, Gulliver’s travels and Darwin’s diary directed by Lorenzo Maragoni, shows in English designed for students. Not to be forgotten is the bilingual show lesson Shakespeare at work.
Since its first edition, he has been the artistic director of Terrevolute – Festival della bonifica in San Donà di Piave and has curated the Odeo days festival in Padua for two editions. He has collaborated and collaborates with many entities in the Veneto region such as the Venetian Theatre Academy in Venice, the Fondazione Teatro Civico in Schio, the Lorenzo da Ponte Academy and the school services in Padua and Venice. He organizes and follows theatre workshops for adults, adolescents and children.
