Unni (Huns) is a wonderful word for a wonderful population. They were invaders, and this is fun, because often the most fun people at a party arrive late, after dinner, and often haven’t been invited. Everything I know about the Huns I got from Wikipedia, a free encyclopaedia that is extremely popular on the internet. The word Unni has a double letter, but this was not the choice of the Huns. It was a decision made by a group of historians who have no respect for the wishes of the deceased. One thing that everyone knows is that the Huns cooked meat by putting it under their horse saddles. What many do not know is that sometimes they got confused and ate the horse by mistake, meaning they had to walk. If they had been more careful, they would have invaded the Roman Empire a century earlier, and we would have been saved an hour of history. The Huns are an extremely interesting people. My piece is not about them. Michelangelo Zeno

Synopsis
In a typical kitchen in a typical house, four people are having breakfast. A silent man, a woman tidying up, a young girl in a tracksuit and a teddy boy who has just been dumped by his girlfriend. Endemic inability to communicate, difficulty in accepting failure and repressed desire create a fertile ground for the invasion of something that is apparently unknown, but that is permanently before us.

Biografia

Michelangelo Zeno (1987) lives and works in Milan, where he graduated in playwriting at the Paolo Grassi School. Between 2011 and 2014, together with the Famiglia Mastorna group, he worked on re-writing and directing classic works (Bernhard, Müller, Ibsen). Together with the composer Gabriele Cosmi, he wrote the pocket-opera MagenZeitOpera, which made its debut in Venice as part of BiennialeMusica2014. From 2017 to 2019, he held the post of production dramaturg at the Cubo Teatro in Turin, for which he wrote Blatte, a piece that earned a special mention from the jury at the Hystrio Playwriting Award and that was translated into Czech by the Letì Theatre in Prague. The theatrical piece Malagrazia was staged by the Phoebe Zeitgeist company and opened the NuoveStorie2018 review at the Teatro dell’Elfo in Milan. The same year it was chosen for the international Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe project. 2019 saw the debut of Tito/Rovine d’Europa at the Festival delle Colline Torinesi, a theatrical suite about a journey between Germany and Poland produced by Cubo Teatro and TPE. During the pandemic, among other things, he wrote L’anello mancante (translated into English and published by OperaDaTreSoldi as an ebook, curated by Teatro i). He teaches playwriting at FE - Fabbrica dell’Esperienza in Milan.

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

TU (you) is the word that perhaps best expressed the sense of face-to-face encounters. It is a form of base unit of relationships, of theatre, encased in two syllables. In this work, it is a long chain of images brought together by meaning, scope and violence, expressing moments, stories and worlds without a precise common denominator. TU flows through everything that surrounds us, through our human experience. It is an ever-changing and composite river that splits into the most infinitesimal particles as it dives into the depths, to then leap away, once again just a blue line in the distance. Pier Lorenzo Pisano

Synopsis
TU is a chain of images brought together by meaning, scope and violence, expressing moments, stories and worlds without a precise common denominator. It flows through everything that surrounds us, through our human experience. It is a river that splits into the most infinitesimal particles as it dives into the depths, to then leap away, once again just a blue line in the distance.

Biografia

Pier Lorenzo Pisano is a director and writer for the cinema, theatre and narrative works.
He graduated in directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Roma (the National Cinema School). He made his debut as a film director with the short Così in terra, presented at the 71st Cannes Festival and officially selected for the Nastro d’Argento, nominated for a Golden Globe and selected at more than fifty international festivals. The following year his second short Antiorario was produced and presented by the 72nd Festival of Locarno, while for the theatre he directed the Italian staging of Per il tuo bene and held the role of residential playwright at the New York Theatre Workshop and the Royal Court Theatre (London) for the development of his next work. He is part of the projects Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe, Playstorm (Teatro Stabile of Turin), Between Lands (Emilia Romagna Teatro Foundation). His works have been translated into twelve languages and his work has been presented as part of the programme for the 72nd Avignon Festival, in the Forum des Nouvelles Écritures Dramatiques Européennes. He is the recipient of the most important Italian awards for new playwriting and dramaturgy, including the Solinas Award, the Riccione - Tondelli Award, and the Hystrio Award. This year will see the publishing of his first novel Il buio non fa paura.

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

Why Simultaneità (simultaneity)? Because it is magical, it is fathomless. It is the fantasy of being everywhere, here and there in the same moment. It is the knowledge that the world and all its forms of life exist not beyond us, but together with us, in the same moment, simultaneously.
We all live in the same moment.
Yet we live alone.
This is why simultaneousness is a utopian ideal. It is deceptive.
Christian Di Furia

Synopsis
A brother and sister find themselves, at the same moment, facing two events that are fundamental to their respective existence.

Biografia

Christian Di Furia was born in Foggia in 1990. He writes for the theatre. His works have gained recognition from the most important festivals of theatrical writing; in 2017 his work Un pallido puntino azzurro was a finalist at the Riccione “Piero Vittorio Tondelli” award, and the following year was published as part of the Teatro series by Nowhere Books. He has published stories in various magazines and blogs, including Nazione Indiana.

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovoAbbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

An upside-down (rovesciato) world is the idea that our current times brought to mind. An upside-down world is what Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody n.2 - on which the text is constructed - gradually led me to. An upside-down world is where the lead character wakes up. All behaviour, all relationships, all situations have been turned upside down. In this overturned world, he no longer understands anything. He struggles to recognise objects, people, everything. He even struggles to recognise himself.Maria Teresa Berardelli

Synopsis
A young man wakes up to find the world has been turned upside down. All behaviour, all relationships, all situations have been turned upside down. In this overturned world, he no longer understands anything. He struggles to recognise objects, people, everything. He feels alone, and even struggles to recognise himself.

Bio

A graduate in 2008 from the “Silvio D’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Arts, Maria Teresa Berardelli won the Riccione/Tondelli award in 2009 with Sterili. In 2010 she won the Città di Chieri e Colline Torinesi - Bando Inedito Award with Altrove and the 6th edition of the Fersen Award with Studio per un teatro clinico. In 2015 she received a special mention at the 2015 Hystrio Playwriting Award with 10 mg. In 2021, her work Il fiore rosso won the Mezz’ore d’Autore competition at the Teatro Due Foundation. She wrote the theatrical adaptation of Uno, nessuno e centomila by Pirandello, directed by Andrea Baracco (a Khora Teatro production), of A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare (a Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria production), of Itaca per sempre by Luigi Malerba (a Trento Spettacoli production), and of Elective affinities by Goethe (a Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria production).
(Foto Andrea Macchia)

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

In this moment (both in history and in my personal life), substantives, verbs and adjectives frighten me with their semantic density. More than clear meaning, I feel that what I needed was a vacuum, a word in which I was unable to move freely. Quasi (almost) is this undefined space, the impossible, the infinitely small that fills our daily lives, whatever that may be. Stefano Fortin

Synopsis
Almost is everywhere in our lives, in events both exceptional and daily. It is a persistent sound that accompanies the dimming of the sun, a couple making a sex tape, a cashier working at a supermarket. It may be hidden in the four hundred and eighty seconds in which we are unable to notice.

Biografia

Born in 1989, Stefano Fortin attended the Academy at the Teatro Stabile del Veneto, where he graduated as an actor in 2014. In 2015 he took part in Il corpo delle parole, an advanced training course at the Santa Cristina Theatrical Centre, founded by Luca Ronconi. He has worked as director’s assistant for Giorgio Sangati, first for the play Le donne gelose by Goldoni (2015), produced by the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and then for the study of O di uno o di nessuno by Pirandello, at the Santa Cristina Theatrical Centre (2017). As a playwright he was a finalist at the 2018 Hystrio Playwriting award and at the Riccione - Pier Vittorio Tondelli 2019 Award. He participated as a dramaturg in the Amleto project by Alessandro Businaro, a finalist in the Directors under30 competition at the Biennale Teatro 2019. In 2020 his work George II made its debut at the Biennale Teatro, directed by Alessandro Businaro. He collaborated as dramaturg in the project Orizzonte Postumo produced by Teatro Stabile, Veneto. He is currently also completing a PhD in Italian Studies at the Department of Linguistic and Literature Studies at the University of Padua.

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

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Pnìgos, suffocation, an interlude in a play in which the coryphaeus faces the public bare faced, maskless, to defend the political ideas of the author: a statement. In order to be able to speak of a new world, I felt it was important to speak of a new form of human, shaped by the times and by the technology that they have created. Smartphones, portable computers, internet connections: the pandemic has rendered them essential items, accelerating existing dynamics, such as the transformation of how we communicate, the perception of reality, the forced conversion from analogue to digital, where the ability to translate matter into numbers dictates its survival. Margarita Egorova

Synopsis
Pnìgos aims to examine the theme of the progressive digitalisation of human experience through the eyes of the most defenceless of subjects, and the category hardest hit by the pandemic: children.

Biography

In her work, Margarita Egorova (Saint Petersburg, 1986) shifts between writing and images, and both physical and digital media. She began working in the field of theatre as a playwright and director. In 2013 her first work received special mention at the Hystrio Award in the Playwriting section. The following year she made her debut at the Teatro Litta in Milan with New Yorker Hotel 3327, writing and directing the play. In the years to follow, her works were staged in Milan, Rome, Pesaro and Turin. She has approached new technology, such as video and interactive projections, to create shows that are a blend of theatre, installation and performance, examining the complex human-machine combination with a multimedia approach. In 2018 she graduated from the Brera Academy in Milan in Photography and New Technology for Art. The role of matter in the era of digital media and the internet lie at the heart of her work. (Photo Amin Zarif)

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

I did not choose this word. It rose up from the depths, it leapt into my gaze, it settled between my fingers. I put it in my mouth and, like a true “O”, began to speak. Martina Ruggeri/Industria Indipendente

Synopsis
OMISSIS. Other things omitted. Omissis is my ecstatic and secret night-time journey among the living ruins of the ancient city (Rome). I went out at night, without opening the door, without anyone able to see me. I met beings, human and otherwise; between one night and the next, something was lost, something else was forgotten.

Biography

My name is Martina Ruggeri. I studied classical literature and continue to study the subject obsessively.  Since 2005, under the name Industria Independente, together with Erika Z. Galli, I have studied the performing and visual arts. Our work was stimulated by a meeting of points of view that, in coming together and blending, opened doors to other forms of expression. Something that is born shared, collective, complete yet without subject, a dialogue between various figures, individual voices and expressive traits.  
Our performances, writing and hybrid formats include: È tutta colpa delle madri (2014), Supernova (2014 - Hystrio award), I ragazzi del Cavalcavia (2015), Ho tanti affanni in petto (2015), Lucifer (2017), Aminta (2017 - directed by Brinchi/Spanò), Dunno_analoghìa superpower (2018), Lullaby (2019); Attika (2019) e Merende. 
I am currently a resident artist for Oceano Indiano, the production and residential project organised by the Teatro di Roma - Teatro Nazionale, with which I founded Radio India in 2020. Klub Taiga (Dear Darkness), the most recent creation by Industria Indipendente, made its debut at the 48th edition of the International Theatre Festival (Venice, September 2020).  
(photo Erika Z. Galli)

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovoAbbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

“Nibbio” (the Italian word for the bird of prey known as the kite) was the first word that came to mind and the only one that remained (following a lengthy processed that is not worth going into), the only word for which my heart skipped a beat when I found it. This skipped beat was the cue for the creation of the text in its current form. I submitted to this sense of intuition and to these sensations of the heart because I felt the need to explain a concept that is too important to study fully, and too unknown to explain differently. I don’t know if I would still say what I said then, if I would say it in this way, or whether the concept is clearer to me now, and in the end, no-one really has a clear idea of what they are saying. Perhaps I wouldn’t write it, but I would certainly have something else to say, and I’m not sure whether I would say it, or write it. Like the kite, it’s something that is part of zoology, of the world and of the heart. Luca Tazzari

Synopsis
The kite hunts, flies, broods, crosses the sky, follows its divine teachings and has feathers. 

Biography

Luca Tazzari was born in Fano in 1994. He graduated in 2016 as a playwright from the Paolo Grassi Civic School of Theatre in Milan. His theatrical short Oggi gli immigrati domani gli spalatori di neve was staged as part of the Terre Promesse-Bussole Rotte project in the academy’s venues. In 2017 he produced a short film, San Giorgio e il Drago together with the group “I cortometraggi del disagio (in memoria di San Giorgio e il Drago)”. Since 2018 he has taught History of Theatre and Dramaturgy for the professional actor’s course at the Accademia56 in Ancona. The same year he began to collaborate with Sandro Fabiani as a playwright for events related to the province of Pesaro-Urbino. In 2019 his work Il Gallo del Mal di Testa was a finalist at the 13th Riccione Pier Vittorio Tondelli Theatrical Award.  In 2021 he collaborated with Sandro Fabiani and Fabrizio Bartolucci for the staging of works as part of the Carnival of Fano.  

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

“Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors”. I read this proverb a few years ago, when I came across it briefly while reading the words of a friend; ever since then, it has remained with me, tattooed onto my brain, and I repeat it to myself in times of trouble.
It is realistic, watertight.
I think that it is one of the few proverbs to actually reflect reality. So many others that fall apart when faced by the unpredictable nature of life.
This one doesn’t
It holds its own.
It stays true to its course.
The storm that faces us creates huge waves that may carry us who knows where, dashing us against the rocks or leading us to new horizons, so if I have to choose a word that has a future in this new world, that word has to go well with the concept of destiny: So marinai (sailors) it is.
Their eyes battered by the Mistral, waiting to cry out: “Land ahoy!”. (Carlo Guasconi)

Synopsis
Two improvised sailors, Milza and Fiore di Loto, find themselves on a strange boat captained by the strange Charon, who they have never seen but who they have always trusted. However, now that their voyage is beginning to seem endless, that the fog surrounding them shows no signs of abating, and time appears to have lost all natural rhythm, their trust begins to wane.

Biography

Carlo Guasconi was born in Codogno (LO) in 1989. The began his theatrical studies with Francesca Mazza at the Società Filodrammatica Piacentina and then at the Scuola Proxima. 
After completing his studies, he joined the cast of Geppetto and Geppetto, written and directed by Tindaro Granata, a play that in 2016 won a number of awards including the Ubu Award for Best New Playwriting, the Hystrio Twister Award and the Enriquez Award. 
In 2015, as a playwright, Guasconi won the 11th Riccione - Pier Vittorio Tondelli Award with the text Essere Bugiardo, which was produced as part of the 2017/2018 season by Corte Ospitale, Proxima Res and the Riccione Award, directed by Emiliano Masala and performed by Guascioni, Mariangela Granelli and Massimiliano Speziani. 
He then collaborated as a dramaturg with the Atir company in the writing of Aldilà di tutto by Chiara Stoppa and Valentina Picello.
In 2019, together with Tindaro Granata and Ugo Fiore, he founded “Situazione Drammatica”, a cultural association for the promotion and development of contemporary drama.
(photo Alessandra Riccioli)

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni

I chose “Letteratura (literature)” to clarify - above all for myself - what literature is and can be for those that take it seriously: a means to develop desire, a creator of imagination, a representation of the world. Vocation, diagnosis, projection, performance, refuge, tragic destiny, physical contact. Literature as a friend and rival, lover and assassin; literature as the hidden trap in language. Fabrizio Sinisi

Synopsis
A young man - an actor - kills himself, suddenly throwing himself off the balcony of his apartment. Two of his friends go over the events, trying to uncover the reasons for his death. 

Biografia

Fabrizio Sinisi (Barletta, 1987), is a playwright, poet and author. He made his debut in 2012 as a theatrical writer with La grande passeggiata, directed by Federico Tiezzi. His published poetry includes La fame and Contrasto dell’uomo e della donna, for which he obtained a special mention at the 2015 Carducci Award. Since 2010 he has held the post of playwright at the Lombardi-Tiezzi Company of Florence and the Teatro Laboratorio in Tuscany. He is also active in the field of music, and in 2017 made his debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - becoming one of the youngest to participate - with the melologue Ravel. He regularly collaborates with the most important Italian theatres, working with the most important directors on the Italian scene. In 2017 he published Tre drammi di poesia, with which he was chosen as one of ten Italian writers for the international Fabulamundi project. Since 2018 he has held the post of resident artist at the CBT - Teatro Stabile di Brescia. In 2018, with La grande passeggiata, he received a special mention from the American Playwrights Project, and in 2019, with Guerra Santa, he won the Testori Award for Literature. He has been published in Germany by Lauke Verlag, and in the United States by Hentschker. He is a regular collaborator with Domani and Doppiozero. His works have also been translated and performed in Austria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.  

Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production 
in collaboration with the Hystrio – Playwriting Award and the Riccione “Pier Vittorio Tondelli” Award
directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni