Theatre

"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...

The centuries-old ficus magnolia tree in the courtyard of the former Sant'Anna conservatory is a mute witness to a new event in the 'Qui se mai verrai, il Salento dei poeti' (Here if you ever come, the Salento of poets) review, organised by ...

A strange and deformed fresco of a South that no longer exists today. The story of "Iancu", a performance by Ura Teatro staged in the cloister of the Augustinians, begins in the lower Salento, on a Sunday in August 1976, the day on which a famous bandit, having escaped ...

Clowns in Freedom is a moment of euphoria, recreation and liberating ritual for three talented clowns who are overwhelmed by a childlike excitement at the idea of being on stage and having an audience at their complete disposal. The show, which closes the ...

'Alexander. A song for life' is the story of the life, deeds and works of an extraordinary intellectual. It is the tale of a young man who chooses to keep his eyes wide open on the reality around him, to always be on the side of the...

A strongly poetic land: this is how the Salento appears to the eyes of the traveller. And the event organised by the Verri Fund entitled 'Qui sei mai verrai, il Salento ...

Unlearning the border through encounter. Destructuring acquired knowledge, one's own language, one's own history, in order to cross the threshold and look further, beyond the horizon. Odin Teatret founder ...

A narrating creature, a black soul, the dark side of Meridian thought. On stage it is a mafioso who speaks: stories and facts say that mafiosi have built up an image of themselves as 'men of honour', paladins of order, but in...

In her official profile she rightly describes herself as an impersonator, a bit of an actress, a bit of a painter... with a passion for dancing. Emanuela Aureli is a very talented impersonator...

Vittorio Pagano, a Lecce poet and writer who was prolific between the 1950s and 1960s, is defined by critic and academic Mario Marti as the third side of the twentieth-century national-Salentine poetic triangle, together with Girolamo Comi and Vittorio Bodini. And the first ...