2017-2018
![©Masiar Pasquali](/sites/default/files/styles/show_list/public/imported-images/uploads/seasons/2017-2018/exhibitions/uomini-e-no/it_01-uomini-scena-850_original_7.jpg?itok=HxTRf6O_)
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Based on the novel by Elio Vittorini, the piece tells the story of a group of partisans during the Nazi-fascist occupation of Milan.
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Todi, a symbol of the Italian provinces where life is serene and everyone knows each other... but what is it best to avoid doing in a small town?
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A reflection on the importance of its role and its commitment: can the theatre change the world?
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The protagonist is fantasy: a human vocation with enormous revolutionary potential, that allows us to understand ourselves and the world.
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The text by Camilla Mattiuzzo, winner of the NdN, tells the semi-true story of a family which has lost control.
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“What can a man do?”, a simple question from the philosophical work by Paul Valéry which leads to the creation of a show which unites music and voice.
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A true story which becomes a terrible poetic entity: what depths can human beings plunge to?
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A monologue on men, on their masculinity and on the strength that lends form to our relationships.
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Lucifer is a being catapulted into another dimension, like a child sent away by his father, forced to be born again, alone.
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The only art which is worth doing is art that disturbs, challenges and puts to the test both artists and spectators. But is this really the case?
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The anger, resentment and frustration of youth lost in the no-man’s-land of the suburbs, where the only distraction is boredom.
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Actors from different nationalities united in the common language of dance to tell stories both great and small on life and theatre.
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Equality among people, freedom of speech and the theatre as a place of democracy... True values or pure humanistic rhetoric?
![©Sanne Peper](/sites/default/files/styles/show_list/public/imported-images/uploads/seasons/2017-2018/exhibitions/the-year-of-cancer/it_year-cambio-copertina850_original_7.jpg?itok=neabZuSU)
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An impossible love. Two lovers who can neither live together nor apart, in a vortex of intimacy and distance, life and death.
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Lev Dodin returns to the Piccolo Teatro with the Maly Drama Teatr of Saint Petersburgh to present their staging of Anton Chekhov’s last masterpiece.