Carmelo Rifici entrusts one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays to the company of young actors that he trained at the Piccolo Academy of Theatre. «I thought of the Dream – he explained – for the wealth of the roles it offers, for the age of the characters, close to that of the actors, but above all for the countless interpretations that it offers. Often presented simply as a story of magic, night-time chases and unrequited love, in my opinion the Dream is more a work in which Shakespeare tells us of the obsession that the powers have to expel whatever is monstrous, foreign and diverse; whatever terrorises them for its apparent ungovernability. In an impossible attempt to create harmony between opposites, a male despot faces off against a female element that is constantly subject to violence, the order of Athens is reflected in the chaos of the forest, while the driving force of sexuality is “domesticated” through marriage. The dramaturgy by Riccardo Favaro – which is interwoven within the pages of the original, focusing on the themes and developing certain characters – brings crisis to a tradition that tends to repeat without ever changing, rendering it complicated to celebrate.»

The show makes use of high volume sound effects and stroboscopic lights