1. Season 2022/23

Filippo Dini takes on one of the most clear-sighted and fierce pieces of American playwriting. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953, during the height of McCarthyism. Amidst an atmosphere of [...]

Written as a radio play by Melania Mazzucco in 2001, it was awarded the 53rd Prix Italia as the best radio drama of the year. Written with heavy noir undertones, [...]

THE STORY OF AN ABSURD INTENTION One of the leading figures of Argentina's prolific nouvelle-vague playwriting, Tolcachir is today acknowledged as a versatile talent and the sensitive author of surreal [...]

The play's characters are a group of actors hired to appear on stage before they learn their parts: disguised as policemen, they receive orders through an earpiece and perform actions [...]

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To the accompaniment of jazz improvisations by Paolo Jannacci and Daniele Moretto, Stefano Massini guides us in discovering the power of narration. For the Tuscan writer, storytelling has always been [...]

On the 100th anniversary of Beppe Fenoglio's birth, Giulio Graglia stages a tribute to the terse and explicit work of the Alba writer. The plot takes place immediately after the [...]

Raffaele La Capria's 1961 novel, winner of the Strega Prize, takes to the stage in Emanuele Trevi's adaptation, directed by Roberto Andò. The story is a romantic diary, starting with [...]

Through this encounter with a great stage classic, Leonardo Lidi presents yet another chapter of his exploration of the boundaries that most young people tend to create for themselves. With [...]

The Tale of A Man Who Became A Tree Most critics consider Mimmo Borrelli to be one of the finest living Italian playwrights, and he has always been admired for [...]

Federico Tiezzi directs a production that draws on the eponymous novel by Bernhard and stages a seemingly straightforward tale. For over thirty years, musicologist (Sandro Lombardi) sits contemplating a painting [...]

Geppy Gleijeses, Maurizio Micheli and Lucia Poli are the leading figures in this great ode of love for the theatre. Considered by some to be one of the greatest plays [...]

The actor, performer and author Matthias Martelli, makes his return to the Gobetti. Directed by Emiliano Bronzino and accompanied by cellist Lucia Sacerdoni, his acclaimed production revisits the life of [...]

Arturo Cirillo brings Cyrano's unforgettable love story to the stage and, in a whirlwind of capes, feathers, top hats and sequins, colours it with music and songs from variety and [...]

Beyond the scandalous themes that have fascinated European audiences for over a century since its first performance in 1881, this domestic drama today strikes us most for the contemporary relevance [...]

The play chronicles thirty years of real-life correspondence between a lifer and a judge, Elvio Fassone. Despite seemingly incompatible lives, letter after letter, the two find a meeting point. This [...]

Yiddish language, music and culture - an elusive blend of Eastern European Hebrew traditions and dialects – are at the heart of this cult production that Moni Ovadia has been [...]

Leonardo Lidi has made a name for himself on the Italian theatre scene with forceful and original versions of some of the great classical authors: Ibsen, Lorca, D'Annunzio, and Molière. [...]

A nuclear accident close to their cottage shatters the life of an elderly couple of scientists (Elisabetta Pozzi and Giovanni Crippa). Power cuts have become common. There is no drinking [...]

Ferzan Ozpetek's first stage directorial venture is an adaptation of one of the best-loved and most successful of his films. Francesco Pannofino, Iaia Forte, Carmine Recano and Simona Marchini are [...]