In the wake of the success of Fotofinish, presented at the Teatro Strehler for the 2023/2024 season, Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza – Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2018 Venice Festival – return to the Piccolo with a new creation: Metadietro. 
On stage, an admiral dressed in electric blue is trying to save his ship, but his crew is blinded by market dynamics and personal interest. No-one is to blame, but the differences that characterise their way of living are impossible to overcome.
«Mutiny is always beneficial in a healthy organisation», read the director’s notes, «and here, in the midst of distorted viewpoints, we see yet another expatriation, not in the form of a migrating population, but rather the relentless departure of their will. And they all lived as outcasts and miracles.»
«It is impossible to return to a natural and wild state», continue the notes, «we are living in a new prehistoric period in which the role of humans is mortified, confused and insufficient. In the material representation of a virtual space, an ecopentagon creates a void, invisible characters flank the egocentric construction: these are not ghosts, but rather inductive suggestions, and despite everything, reality is never uniform; it always upsets pre-established plans and unpredictably nourishes the role of the ghost. Technological cruelty permeates the living. This is the death of heroism.»