The map portrays a floor plan of Teatro Strehler, specifically the stalls and the surrounding spaces, which are located on floor -1 of the building.

Conventional signs

• The solid lines are walls;
• the wavy lines are curtains;
• the checkered areas are the seats;
• the multiple thin arrowheads are stairs and ramps;
• the small crossed boxes are elevator shafts;
• the hollow shapes in solid line are the outlines of furnishings;
• the filled raised surfaces are areas that are inaccessible to the general public or obstructions from structural elements;
• the dotted areas are the toilets;
• the diagonally-striped areas are the cloakrooms and the bar;
• the dashed rectangle outlines the stage;
• the cross marks the position of this panel.

Exploration
In the upper left corner of the map you will find the words “T. Strehler: Platea” (meaning “Stalls” in Italian) in large print and in braille, while in the upper right corner is the QR Code linking to this guide.

Now place both hands on the lower edge of the map and move your fingers upward: you will feel that the outline of the building begins horizontally and then widens upwards on both ends, displaying a variety of markings and surfaces.

Let us begin from the horizontal section and, moving upward beyond the perimeter wall and a slanted wall on the left, look for some multiple thin arrowheads. These mark the stairs that lead from the foyer on the ground floor down to floor -1, where we are located. To the right of the staircase is a dotted area, which indicates a first group of toilets.

Starting from the arrowheads now move upward to the left, that is, in the direction opposite to where the arrowheads are pointing. Here, you should soon encounter a cross. It marks the position of this panel, where we are presently located.

Just above and to the right of the cross can be found a long, hollow polygon, almost a wide and flat trapeze: this is the cafe counter, and lies below a diagonally-striped surface representing the bar area. Above it, we find an irregular raised polygon: this is the control booth which, of course, is not open to the public.

Continuing upward from the control booth, we will find an area covered in multiple checkered sections arranged in a fan-like pattern: this is the stalls area, and these, just under your fingers, are the various seats. Between the seating sectors and along their sides, you will find arrowheads marking the stairways providing access to the various rows.

The stalls area has a roughly octagonal shape. If we carefully explore the upper right and left slanted corners we will find, in each corner, a wavy line representing a curtain. The corner on the upper right, beyond the curtain, leads into a corridor that can be traced through a raised area, somewhat windingly, all the way back to the foyer; the one on the upper left leads to an emergency exit of which, always beyond the curtain, we may identify the stairwell.

Let us retrace again the octagonal shape of the stalls. In the lower slanted corners we find only two openings in the perimeter. These are the two entrances to the stalls opening up directly onto the foyer on floor -1.

Now, if we return to the seating area and proceed upward, we will encounter an almost-arched solid line outlining the proscenium: beyond it, we find a large dashed-line rectangle, which outlines the stage area.

If from here we move our fingers to the left or upward we will encounter, running along the upper edge of the panel, a vast raised area not accessible to the public. This contains dressing rooms, storerooms, and other service rooms. To the right of the stage, on the other hand, there is a large hollow area: this is the backstage, housing machinery and other stage equipment, along with a passage connecting Teatro Strehler to Teatro Studio Melato.

We may now wrap up our exploration of the foyer on floor -1 by going back to the cross that represents this panel. We can locate it by the lower left corner of the raised polygon just below the stalls, or retrieve it as we did at the very beginning, referencing the staircase at the bottom of the map.

From the cross, slide your fingers slightly to the left and, next to a small raised polygon (some more service rooms), you will find a small hollow rectangle portraying a bench. From here, move upward to the left, following the slanted edge of the building, to find a diagonally-striped area: this is a cloakroom, and just by it we will also find the hollow rectangle of the counter. 

From here, move further upward: near the hollow rectangles of two more benches, and enclosed within a raised area that is not accessible to the public, you can find an elevator represented by a small crossed box.

To explore the other wing of the foyer on floor -1, let us return to the toilets in the lower part of the panel, that is, the dotted area near the stairs we touched at the beginning. Moving upward to the right, we can locate another area not accessible to the public, bordered on the left by the hollow rectangles of two more benches.

Continuing upward to the right along the slanted outline of the theatre, we may find another diagonally-striped cloakroom area, also by its own counter. To the right, this space is surrounded by a large area not accessible to the public. Slightly above and to the left of the cloakroom, we may find one last elevator, essentially mirroring the one we identified earlier.