Filippo Dini directs and stars in Ibsen's iconic play, together with Deniz Özdoğan as Nora. The production upends traditional direction approaches, with a new take on the Helmer household conflict. [...]
Arsenic and Old Lace
2 – 7 Nov 2021
silvia2022-01-10T11:33:33+00:00
A masterful balance between noir and comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace has preserved the subversive energy that made Frank Capra's film with Cary Grant and Boris Karloff so famous. Gleijeses [...]
Pupo di zucchero (The Feast of the Dead)
9 – 13 Nov 2021
silvia2022-01-10T11:34:53+00:00
On the Day of the Dead, an old man, alone in an empty house, mixes the dough to make a pupo di zucchero (sugar puppet). As he waits for the [...]
Pride and Prejudice
16 – 21 Nov 2021
silvia2022-01-10T11:35:10+00:00
Jane Austen's novel has never ceased to excite since it was first published in 1813, and Arturo Cirillo celebrates its mystique, irony and penetrating descriptions of a distant world. His [...]
Peachum. A Threepenny Opera
23 Nov – 5 Dec 2021
silvia2023-01-16T15:55:04+00:00
Rocco Papaleo and Fausto Paravidino are the main characters in this new take on Brecht's masterpiece, which has become even more topical over the past year, when the world experienced [...]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
14 Dec – 16 Jan 2022
silvia2023-01-16T15:55:22+00:00
Valerio Binasco is once again drawn to an author he holds especially dear. A gentle and subtle comedy that skillfully addresses love and its demanding dynamics. Here Binasco and his [...]
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
18 – 23 Jan 2022
silvia2022-02-22T16:08:04+00:00
Antonio Latella directs Albee's best known play, starring Sonia Bergamasco, Vinicio Marchioni together with Ludovico Fededegni and Paola Giannini. The play describes the ruthlessly savage relationship between a married couple [...]
Heroes’ Square
25 – 30 Jan 2022
silvia2022-02-22T16:09:01+00:00
Bernhard's last play is finally to be staged in Italy, directed by Roberto Andò. The rise of souverainism and populism, the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and political blindness are the background [...]
Gidion’s Knot
1 – 6 Feb 2022
silvia2022-02-22T16:09:33+00:00
Ambra Angiolini joins Arianna Scommegna and director Serena Sinigaglia in addressing the issue of bullying. A school mother asks a teacher what has happened to her son, who has returned [...]
Il mago di Oz
12 feb – 15 mag 2022
silvia2022-03-17T14:39:42+00:00
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Moby Dick – Rehearsed
8 – 20 feb 2022
silvia2022-02-22T16:11:19+00:00
Elio De Capitani presents a forgotten masterpiece by Welles that was first staged in New York in 1955 starring the great director in the role of Ahab. It was intended [...]
The Great Silence
22 feb – 6 mar 2022
silvia2022-02-21T12:38:46+00:00
Alessandro Gassmann and Massimiliano Gallo, both of whom have followed in the footsteps of famous parents, are the director and the star of de Giovanni's intense play. The year is [...]
Just for nothing
9 – 20 mar 2022
silvia2022-07-01T17:50:39+00:00
Umberto Orsini and Franco Branciaroli, both great Italian theatre talents, star in a play by Nathalie Sarraute, one of France's foremost 20th-century authors. Two friends come together again after an [...]
Cap and Bells
22 mar – 3 apr 2022
silvia2022-07-01T17:50:27+00:00
Gabriele Lavia - starring here with Federica di Martino - is among the most impassioned and successful voices of the Sicilian Nobel Laureate's theatre work. Ciampa, a lowly clerk who [...]
The Midday Thread
5 – 14 apr 2022
silvia2022-07-01T17:50:10+00:00
A prominent Italian author, Goliarda Sapienza was a partisan during the war and a feminist who succeeded in overcoming severe depression. Based on Ippolita di Majo’s adaptation, Mario Martone directs [...]
When the rain stops falling
19 – 24 apr 2022
silvia2022-07-01T17:50:05+00:00
Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli directs the first Italian production of this contemporary theatre masterpiece. The play was awarded three UBU Prizes (direction, best foreign text, costumes) and the ANCT Award for [...]
The Misanthrope
3 – 22 May 2022
silvia2023-01-16T16:00:25+00:00
Leonardo Lidi, a brilliant stage and film actor as well as a director and playwright (his most recent awards include the ANCT Award), stages this unforgiving analysis of society almost [...]
As You Desire Me
27 – 29 May 2022
silvia2022-07-01T17:47:58+00:00
Stéphane Braunschweig, among the most internationally renowned theatre directors, and director of the Paris Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe, stages a thorny, modern play by Pirandello. Part detective drama and existential [...]