Petra Valentini

A chance encounter leads two 30-somethings to remember 1998, the year their teenage hormones kicked in — and the internet changed their lives forever.

Damiano Michieletto presents his own dramatic adaptation of two famous one-act plays by Chekhov: “The Marriage Proposal” and “The Bear.”

A few years after their separation Filippo, a failed musician, and Cecilia, a career woman, meet again to sign their divorce papers. Despite an initial apparent peacefulness, their words begin to reveal feelings, problems and conflicts that time had erased. Thus begins a verbal duel that will lead the two to understand if they still know each other or have become two complete strangers.

Liv Ferracchiati has chosen Chekhov’s *Platonov* to explore the mechanism that links intuition, writing and life within an artist. “It is worth viewing Platonov with a degree of leniency,” she explains, “because in his outbursts, his miseries, his fears and his inconsolable sorrows, we recognise our own.”

Giovanna, a twelve-year-old born and raised in a small village near Grosseto, possesses an extraordinary imagination and cannot come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, Mirko—who has left her all alone to face the bullies at school. Determined to uncover the truth, the courageous girl sets off on an adventure all by herself.

A chance encounter leads two 30-somethings to remember 1998, the year their teenage hormones kicked in — and the internet changed their lives forever.