3. Teatro Gobetti 2023/24

On October 9 1963, 260 million cubic metres of rock broke off Mount Toc and crashed into the Vajont dam, raising a wave that destroyed five villages and killed two [...]

The French Revolution affected all of Europe in 1789, changing and reshaping the world around new ideals. But what remains of it today? With their cutting and ironic style, Elvira Frosini and Daniele [...]

«Cassius Clay is a slave's name. I didn't choose it, and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name. It means 'beloved of God'. I insist people [...]

This tragicomic comedy, written by Iranian author Hamid Ziarati and Beppe Rosso, is set in a radio station, where news from the outside world becomes entangled with the personal relationships of the broadcasters, [...]

Far more than a simple tribute to the pioneer of "song theatre", the Accademia dei Folli presents a musical journey born of the enthusiasm and passion that the work of [...]

Stefano Massini returns to his decade-long work on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and to some of the recurrent questions that prompted his work: Where do we go when [...]

On its Broadway debut in 1959, Gibson's little masterpiece met with extraordinary success and was performed continuously for almost three years. The story's focus is Helen and her inability to see, hear [...]

Ferdinando is unquestionably the masterpiece of Antonio Ruccello, the Neapolitan playwright and director. The play was written in 1986 - the year of the author's untimely death - for Isa Danieli, [...]

A Sentimental Score for LibrariesLucia Calamaro has explored human beings in their most hidden and distressing folds in her prolific, desecrating, romantic style. The title's human types are seven people [...]

A bomb exploded at the Banca dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana in Milan at 4.37 pm on December 12 1969, killing seventeen people and injuring eighty-eight. There were attempts to place the [...]

Joseph Roth's poetic play about the life of a homeless man, Andreas Kartak, in 1939 captured the hearts of readers all over Europe. The novel's central theme is the unassailable [...]

Stivalaccio Teatro is a new, young company from Veneto that has revitalised the Commedia dell'Arte tradition with productions brimming with energy, colour and passion. Under Marco Zoppello’s direction, Arlecchino Furioso (Frenzied Harlequin), the “maschera” [...]

Wonderland is a contemporary revisitation of Alice in Wonderland. A cast of actors, circus performers and dancers recreates an extraordinary world in which little Alice can experience the freedom of [...]

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the TST Actors' School students are staging The Investigation. The play is an ideal generational passing of the torch that commemorates the tragedy of the Holocaust [...]

Emma Dante has yet again created a delicate and powerful mosaic of memories as she narrates the love between two elderly people (Sabino Civilleri and Manuela Lo Sicco), who ring [...]

The two crucial issues addressed by Top Girls, a play Caryl Churchill wrote when Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister, are how women relate to power and to what extent one [...]

VicoQuartoMazzini theatre collective, awarded the 2021 Hystrio Prize as the best-emerging company, stages Nicola Lagioia's novel, which won the 2015 Premio Strega Prize. The mysterious death of a young woman, [...]

The play is steeped in sensuality, gentleness, and grace and enhanced by elegant and razor-sharp irony. Alfonsina Malacrida, known as Nanà, is performed by Giuliana De Sio. Every Tuesday afternoon, Nanà heads [...]

This masterpiece that Genet wrote in 1947 is a perfect metatheatrical device, which reveals the continuous reversal between being and seeming inherent to the art of the stage. The story's [...]

Ascanio Celestini's magnetic narrative talent, set to Gianluca Casadei's music, combines to tell the story of Saint Francis: from his birth in France to his passion for chivalric literature, from [...]