An important figure in the contemporary Arabic and European theatrical panorama, Fadhel Jaïbi made his name in Italy thanks to the Piccolo Teatro which in 2014, on the occasion of the "Festival del Mediterraneo", presented Junun (Dementia). In 2010, Jaïbi returned to the Piccolo with Yahia Yaïch (Amnesia).
The director's return to the Piccolo is the natural development of the attention that the theatre has always dedicated to the Euro-Mediterranean area, in this case in declared support for an artist who moves with a critical sensibility in a very complex context. With this new production, Jaïbi continues his own study of the past and present toils of Tunisian politics and society. Violence(s) is a reflection on crime, both serious and petty, real and imagined, committed by "common", exceptional or psychopathic people. It examines the events which set off episodes of port-revolutionary violence, rural and urban, in Tunisia; a far-from perfect democracy which however is an advanced point of the democratic movement in the Middle-Eastern area. The artist, and the play with him, feel the need to observe the dynamics of these episodes of violence from above, in a universal context, as a journey through the depths of the human soul which cannot but touch on Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Dante, Büchner and Pasolini; artists who, over time, have looked at the suffering of mankind and at how much of the unreal, surreal, tragicomic and inevitable invades our daily lives.