2017-2018

Based on the novel by Elio Vittorini, the piece tells the story of a group of partisans during the Nazi-fascist occupation of Milan.

Todi, a symbol of the Italian provinces where life is serene and everyone knows each other... but what is it best to avoid doing in a small town?

A reflection on the importance of its role and its commitment: can the theatre change the world?

The protagonist is fantasy: a human vocation with enormous revolutionary potential, that allows us to understand ourselves and the world.

The text by Camilla Mattiuzzo, winner of the NdN, tells the semi-true story of a family which has lost control.

“What can a man do?”, a simple question from the philosophical work by Paul Valéry which leads to the creation of a show which unites music and voice.

A true story which becomes a terrible poetic entity: what depths can human beings plunge to?

A monologue on men, on their masculinity and on the strength that lends form to our relationships.

Lucifer is a being catapulted into another dimension, like a child sent away by his father, forced to be born again, alone.

The only art which is worth doing is art that disturbs, challenges and puts to the test both artists and spectators. But is this really the case?  

The anger, resentment and frustration of youth lost in the no-man’s-land of the suburbs, where the only distraction is boredom.

Actors from different nationalities united in the common language of dance to tell stories both great and small on life and theatre.

Equality among people, freedom of speech and the theatre as a place of democracy... True values or pure humanistic rhetoric?

An impossible love. Two lovers who can neither live together nor apart, in a vortex of intimacy and distance, life and death.

Lev Dodin returns to the Piccolo Teatro with the Maly Drama Teatr of Saint Petersburgh to present their staging of Anton Chekhov’s last masterpiece.