Teatro Invito

Our company was established in 1986 and was subsequently recognized by the Ministry of Culture as a “theatre production company for children and youth of national artistic importance” and has an agreement with the Lombardy Region.

The attention towards the Teatro Ragazzi combines with the research and vocation for the theatricalisation of non-deputized spaces. It stands out for original dramaturgy that takes inspiration from literary and iconographic sources but develops from the improvisational work of the actors, also through themes such as the poetics of memory, in which the use of dialect, autobiographical inspiration and historical references find space. In the field of children’s theatre, he focuses on revisiting classic fairy tales and writing original texts on themes related to growth and current events, always in poetic form.

The company produces shows for children and adults, which travel throughout Italy and at major festivals. It is an established figure in the organizational field and organizes numerous school, Sunday and evening events in various Lombardy provinces.

Teatro Invito combines its production activity with intense and constant activity in the area which includes workshops for children and adults and theatrical readings. It is an organizational point of reference for hosting shows, educational projects and theater reviews. It organizes the summer festival of the Teatro Popolare di Ricerca L’ultima luna d’estate, which has taken place in the Brianza area of Lecco since 1998, becoming the most significant theatrical event in Lombardy and recognized by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities as a national festival since 2015. Places of the Adda, a theatre festival in the most evocative places along the river; The theatre valleys, Unique Place and Copyplays, theatre festivals for schools; and the more recent projects Upstream the show and Theatre and music in Val Chiavenna testify to an incessant work of cultural promotion in the area.

Since 2016 the Association has managed Spazio Teatro Invito (an auditorium with 300 seats) with a concession contract with the Municipality of Lecco, here it organizes an evening season, a school season and a Sunday season.

  • 2017
  • 2019
  • 2024

Upcoming events

4 Aug

4 August 2024 ⋅ h 19:15

Stazione dell'Arte
Ulassai

Fought as they played

LUCA RADAELLI / TEATRO INVITO

«I don't know who coined the expression Years of Lead. The fact is that this label stuck to my adolescence. To the point of almost making me feel guilty for having grown up in those years and for having laughed and loved and rejoiced in those years, years of murdered deaths. Because that lead calls for bullets. But lead is also the leaden gray of the fog, which covered Milan in those years, and which has now disappeared. And lead is also the mat...

Past events

7 Aug

7 August 2022 ⋅ h 19:00

Cantina Antichi Poderi
Jerzu

Lear e il suo matto

LUCA RADAELLI

Reading Shakespeare one comes across a reality made of contrasts: the high and the low, the lofty and the vulgar, the comic and the tragic. In perhaps his darkest tragedy, King Lear (written, among other things, precisely in the wake of a plague epidemic that had closed London theaters for a year), Shakespeare takes away from the spectator every certainty, every fixed point. The king talks to his fool and it is not clear which of the two is the ...

5 Aug

5 August 2019 ⋅ h 19:00

Taquisara
Gairo

Vengo anch’io!

Luca Radaelli / Teatro Invito

We want to remember Nanni Svampa, recall the exciting atmosphere of Milan in the 60s and 70s and celebrate that group of friends and colleagues made up of Enzo Jannacci, Giorgio Gaber and Dario Fo, with songs but also pieces by the characters who characterized that Milanese scene: Ivan della Mea, Herbert Pagani, Giorgio Strehler, Beppe Viola, Alda Merini. A kaleidoscope of characters like Rita, el commissari, Nineta, Cerutti, Armando… in a walk...

8 Aug

8 August 2017 ⋅ h 18:00

Cantina Antichi Poderi
Jerzu

Macbeth banquet

LUCA RADAELLI / TEATRO INVITO

A “homemade” banquet for a murder committed within the family, in which the protagonist’s ambitions will vanish in a cloud of steam. A kitchen, a place where dark dishes and cruel machinations are prepared. In Macbeth banquet a cook tells the Shakespearean story with the help of tools and foods available in a kitchen. A single actor enters the thoughts of the characters and interprets their gestures and actions, the cook officiates a theat...

7 Aug

7 August 2014 ⋅ h 17:00

Sa Pranedda Canyon
Ulassai

In capo al mondo. Viaggio con Walter Bonatti

LUCA RADAELLI | TEATRO INVITO

What is a hero? Who leads an exemplary life and what life is more exemplary than Bonatti’s? Behind Walter Bonatti there are not only the legendary mountaineering feats, nor the famous explorations conducted for Epoca, behind Bonatti there is a philosophy of life. There is the will to reach the goal without compromises, in a fair comparison with Nature. There is the humility to confront cultures different from ours. There is a great sense of j...