“Atto Unico” starts in Turin, the new season of the Teatro Stabile, from the Greek classics to Pirandello and Chekhov, a “memorable” season. INFO
From the great Greek classics, to Pirandello, Chekhov and more contemporary texts. The new season of the Teatro Stabile, entitled Atto unico, is rich and varied. Seventy titles, like the years that the Theater itself celebrates. Among these, twenty-four productions and co-productions and many guest companies, in addition to the Torinodanza shows and the Shakespearean comedies of the traditional summer festival.
To inaugurate the 2024/2025 season of the Turin building it will be Things I Know to Be True, directed by Valerio Binasco, the first Italian production by the award-winning Australian writer and playwright Andrew Bovell, who explores domestic and marital mechanisms through the eyes of four brothers. This is followed by How to Become Rich and Famous from One Moment to the Next, the new show by author and director Emanuele Aldrovandi, which explores the sometimes destructive relationship between happiness and personal fulfillment; Cenci – Contemporary Renaissance, directed by Giorgia Cerruti, which stages the trial against Beatrice Cenci, a young Roman noblewoman beheaded in 1599 for killing her violent father; and The Terrible Relatives, among Jean Cocteau’s most successful works, directed by Filippo Dini.
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s latest work, will be directed by Leonardo Lidi, from this year as resident director and director of the theater school, who is also responsible for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his first great theatrical success. Tennessee Williams, and How to Come in the Best Days by Diego Pleuteri, which tells the story of two anonymous lovers, A and B. The Teatro Stabile will also dedicate a marathon to the great Russian author Chekhov on November 30th, with the staging on the same day from The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard.
Returning to the Carignano Theater is Fred!, the acclaimed show about Fred Buscaglione capable of bringing the singer’s nocturnal world, full of women and cigarettes, back to life, directed by Arturo Brachetti, and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, directed and starring Valerio Binasco. After the great London success, Prima facie by Suzie Miller arrives at Gobetti, the story of the young lawyer Tessa Ensler, victim of rape, directed by Marta Cortellazzo Wiel.
The trilogy of books – Old Testament by Gabriele Vacis and the PoEM artists is a national premiere, at the Fonderie Limone. Vacis himself will be the protagonist of the celebrations for the thirtieth anniversary of Novecento, at the Gobetti Theatre, with the author Alessandro Baricco and in homage to Eugenio Allegri, his interpreter par excellence, who passed away two years ago.
With Euripides’ The Bacchae, Marcido Marcidorjs and Famosa Mimosa celebrate the forty years of their artistic adventure by bringing Greek theater to the stage, which is also echoed in three other works on the bill: Three ways to not die, Tragudia and Clytemnestra, Medea, Circe .
Another national debut is The Lady of the Oceans – The Sea and the Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, a theatrical story with an environmentalist theme directed and performed by Marco Rampoldi. Marco Bernardi will instead direct Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, nineteen short scenes with an overwhelming rhythm about the conflict between adolescents and adults.
Festa grande di April is the theatrical text with which Franco Antonicelli, writer, photographer, journalist and partisan, retraces the Italian events from the days of the Matteotti crime in 1924 to those of the Resistance and Liberation in 1945, which will be staged at the Gobetti Theater with directed by Giulio Graglia. Also at Gobetti, from 6 to 11 May 2025, Stabat Mater returns with a new cast and a new production, written, directed and performed by Liv Ferracchiati. Winner of the Hystrio Nuove Scritti di Scena Award in 2017, the text deals with the themes of self-determination and freedom of identity expression.
The young director Micol Jalla will direct Appeal to Europe by Stefan Zweig, author of four famous speeches on Europe, while Kriszta Székely will direct The Builder Solness, Ibsen’s mature masterpiece, performed at the Carignano Theater in its national premiere with Valerio Binasco in the role of Solness, a rich and successful architect but afflicted by envy of the younger ones, a text on generational clash, chauvinism and the abuse of man over woman.
The traditional summer program “English Meadow” this year includes, from 19 June to 13 July 2025, the Shakespearean comedies The Winter’s Tale and Love’s Labour’s Lost, two national premieres directed by Jurij Ferrini. Dance invades the programming of prose with a path entitled Torinodanza EXTRA, which brings to the stage four shows starting from November 28th with the national premiere of Taverna Miresia by Mario Banushi, to continue on March 13th with Coup Fatal by Alain Platel, on May 17th with Suspended Chorus by Silvia Gribaudi, on 3 June with Works and Days by the Belgian collective FC Bergman.
