Filippo Dini directs and stars in what is widely considered Jean Cocteau’s most perfect play. The play offers a shocking portrayal of a claustrophobic and incestuous family, filled with brutal hatred and twisted passions. This production marks one of the first plays directed by Luchino Visconti in newly liberated Italy. It serves as a powerful exploration of tragic and impossible love in its most exasperated and paradoxical forms. The play delves into a woman’s wretched and unrequited love for her sister’s husband, a father’s cheating and pathetic love for a much younger girl, the obsessed love of a young man about to experience love for the first time, and a mother’s possessive and incestuous love. Milvia Marigliano and Mariangela Granelli join Dini on stage.

by Jean Cocteau
director Filippo Dini
Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale
Fondazione Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Bellini
Teatro Stabile di Bolzano
tanks to Comité Jaen Cocteau