Theatre

Female, witch, excessive, cruel and innocent at the same time. This is how the 'Medea' staged by Costruzioni teatrali Poieofolà, which, after last year's 'Le Baccanti' by Euripides, returns...

Uses and customs, vices and virtues of the Salento food and wine of today and yesterday with the shrewd and biting irony of P40 and Lucia Minutello. "Koreja e le case vicine..." (Koreja and the neighbouring houses...) is a show of tales, true and verisimilar stories, of characters, encounters, vicissitudes...

Two women for one woman. Angela De Gaetano's voice and Giuliana De Donno's harp notes narrate the verses of Rina Durante, unforgettable writer and journalist whose research work made a fundamental contribution ...

Là qua, là qua, là qua... "LàQua" is a sweet lullaby, echoing from the mother's belly. It is the gentle sound of the first element, water, which accompanies, protects and cradles intra-uterine life. "LàQua" is the song of...

The Lecce vernacular is on stage in the green spaces of the Villa Comunale. On stage, during the civil celebrations for the feast of patron saints Oronzo, Giusto and Fortunato, is the 'Mario Perrotta senior' theatre company with...

The 'Lu Curtigghiu' company, founded in 1996 with the aim of protecting the popular cultural heritage and in particular promoting vernacular theatre, presents 'L'aria del Settentrione', a brilliant comedy in two acts by William Fiorentino, freely adapted from 'L'aria del continente' by Nino Martoglio, as...

As part of the patronal celebrations of Saint Oronzo, Giusto and Fortunato, on the evening of the eve of the celebrations, the Villa Comunale will host the Salento theatre company Corte dei Musco, which will stage William Fiorentino's comedy 'Villa Serena'. The play...

It is a play about encounters, the kind that mark and change lives forever. "I am old enough now to become your friend", by Giuseppe Puppo, is brought to the stage by the actors of Scena Muta together with the students of...

His are the verses most quoted to describe the bitterness of a certain South, 'the lime houses', 'the land where tobacco grows' with its 'light that seems like raw meat'. It is he who described so well that contrasting feeling for the Salento, a land that binds...

"Freedom is not standing on a tree, it is not even the flight of a fly", sang Gaber. And it is precisely to the 'rampant freedoms' that the first act of Mario Perrotta's great new project is dedicated, 'I think I should fly' (Permàr production), to ...