2016-2017

A play which speaks of fear and courage, of the sense of belonging and of solitude, when Italians emigrated, in search of a future.

A story of emigration which has as its main character a young woman in search of a better future in a far-off, unknown country.

Seventy years of the Piccolo Teatro and seventy years of Harlequin: a double anniversary for a theatrical tradition loved the world over.

A new programme for Aterballetto with choreographies by Italian and international writers which highlight the versatility of the company.

An actor, a musician, and a cello: a dialogue of music and words, between past and present, guided by Bach’s cello Suites. 

A naked stage, outlined by a backdrop and six wings. In a ring of hell, actor sinners walk a circle entwined together.

A text on the borderline between serious reflection and alcoholic delirium, a confine on which the game of human lives and their paradoxes is played.

A voyage through fantasy and reality, in which shadow and light are the symbols of our fears, our desires, and our thirst for knowledge.

The pupils of the Scala’s Ballet School take on a classic in the version created by Frédéric Olivieri to the music of Prokofiev.

Eden, Shirin and Mina: three women, three religions, three lives in the middle-eastern time-bomb. The story of a conciliation which may be impossible.

A choral mosaic, a work-debate on legality, a provocation against the mafia network which seeks to defeat civil conscience.

A closed theatre, a curtain that doesn’t rise. Master and apprentice in search of the character. Jouvet’s reflections on the nobility of the vocation of acting.

De Rosa stages Seneca’s Phaedra, contaminating it with Euripides’s Hippolytus and with excerpts of the great Latin author’s correspondence.

Taking migration as a starting point, HUMAN makes a merciless exploration of the decisive boundary which separates the humane from the inhumane.