Five strangers find themselves in a featureless community centre room for a theatrical course: this marks the beginning of Circle Mirror Transformation, the brilliant comedy by Annie Baker, directed and performed – working with the translation by Monica Capuani – by Valerio Binasco, together with Pamela Villoresi, Alessia Giuliani, Andrea Di Casa, Maria Trenta. 
Over six weeks of theatrical exercises, the characters form unexpected bonds in a blend of comical and touching moments; a tender, surprising and intensely realistic play that reflects on theatre and life, and how they are affected by the passage of time. Annie Baker, a Pulitzer prize winner, is one of the most original voices in new American playwriting, celebrated for her minimalist style and her ability to depict daily life with delicacy and irony. This work in particular, performed worldwide and winner of the Obie Award, was defined by the New York Times as «absorbing, unblinking and sharply funny». 
Exploring the micro-dramas of existence and the internal transformations that take place in even the most ordinary of settings, Circle Mirror Transformation pays tribute to imperfection and the power of the unspoken, key themes in all of Baker’s work.