5. Productions TST 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Antigone is one of the figures of classical tragedy that, perhaps more than any other, still speaks forcefully to our contemporary world. She has always embodied self-aware, assertive youth, standing [...]

Jurij Ferrini directs and stars in Shakespeare's famous tragedy about jealousy: Othello. His contemporary approach explores this drama, in which truth is no longer tangible and becomes defamation. The tangled [...]

Can we live without ideals? That is the issue that the characters in Ibsen's play have to deal with. Hedda Gabler is fully aware of other people's lies and hypocrisy. [...]

For his much-anticipated return to the Turin stage, Davide Livermore directs the intense rivalry between Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and her cousin Elizabeth of England, the former a prisoner [...]

Following his successful Macbettu and La Tempesta (The Tempest), Alessandro Serra presents this production to audiences of all ages in the newly converted Sala Pasolini. Prince Midnight lives under a [...]

Bosnian playwright Tanja Šljivar's inspiration for this 2017 play was a news item about seven 13-year-olds who all became pregnant during their last school trip. Paola Rota's staging, based on [...]

Richard III has always been a source of fascination because of his violent, manipulative and reclusive character. The Duke of Gloucester, a misshapen and deceitful murderer, is unquestionably one of [...]

After The Pleasure of Honesty, Valerio Binasco returns with another of the Sicilian playwright's masterpieces. An Italian theatre classic that, even to this day, succeeds in generating the quality and [...]

After addressing the idea of the Other as a threat in his Le Misanthrope, Leonardo Lidi presents a piece by a promising young Italian playwright, 21-year-old Diego Pleuteri. What is [...]

The Weston family assembles in Osage County, Oklahoma, for the funeral of their patriarch, the poet and alcoholic Beverly. The reunion will spark an intense and amusing reckoning among the [...]

Lazarus is one of David Bowie's last works. In 2015 he adapted some of his best-known songs for this musical, which he wrote with Irish playwright Enda Walsh. This testament-performance [...]