Through the words of Francesco Piccolo, Claudio Bisio tells the story of a life similar to the one we all live, full of mistakes and intuition

Ironic, caustic and irreverent: Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza return to the Piccolo with a new and irresistible creation.

Plato’s cave in fable form, using shadow theatre to explain that one must go beyond appearances in order to find reality

In this new show, Marcus Lindeen reflects on time, on memory and on the way in which humanity creates its own memory

For the third time, Orsini takes on Ivan Karamazov, the most complex, controversial and tormented character ever created by Dostoevsky

Deflorian curates a reading of A girl’s story, one of the many astounding books by Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel in Literature

100 years on from Mein Kampf, Massini stages Hitler’s delirium to ensure that conscience impedes history from repeating itself

Giorgio Gaber’s cues accompany the testimony of an intense life of militancy and belonging

The puppets of Carlo Colla & Figli meet Molière: farce, irony and wit for an enjoyable comedy which pokes fun at human credulity.

Franco Branciaroli re-stages a play which is a cornerstone of Italian theatre: Luca Ronconi’s Medea, in which he performed in 1996. 

Maurizio De Giovanni is reading some of Gaber and Luporini’s best-known monologues

The return to the stage of the play by Renato Sarti which recalls the deportation of the workers of Sesto San Giovanni following the 1943-1945 strikes

The hardship of the women left alone after the deportation of their men due to the Milan strikes, the resistance of those who said no to fascism.

The play is dedicated to the figure of Mother Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Patron Saint of the migrants after a centenary from her death.