Ironic, surreal, caustic and disturbing. Niccolò Fettarappa, born 1996, author, actor and director, makes his debut at the Piccolo with a work that is a declaration of intent. In a setting in which the European Union agenda has decreed that the last orgasm on Earth will happen by 2030, Italy is invaded by a horde of bears with unrestrained sexual appetite. A couple in crisis survives their dull, useless and listless afternoons reading newspapers and exercising in their living rooms, while a journalist and a government-appointed zoologist look into the mystery of the bears... 
«People have stopped having sex – declares Fettarappa–. Statistics say so, and I can confirm it. It has been noted by psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists. An epidemic of sexual laziness, a never-before-seen and worrying crisis of desire that mainly affects young couples. What happened? This rapid fall in arousal runs parallel with an increase in the consumption of narcotics, antidepressants or stimulants that increase performance at work. The rapid spread of this mass anaesthesia is accompanied by a frenzied increase in work. The office has taken the place of the orgasm, and the only pleasure allowed is related to productivity. We are seeing an unprecedented annihilation of individual eroticism, with humans transformed into abstract numerical entities detached from the wild roots of desire.»

The performances on 28 and 29 March are surtitled in English and Italian