Marco Cavalcoli

In an Italian village, where the idyllic beauty of the landscape belies the toughness of life, word has it young Pietro has psychokinetic powers. A tender portrait of a young boy, and an allegory of the science of invisible forces.

The country is under lockdown. Covid-19 has decimated the patients of the Retirement Homes. In one of them two stories flow parallel through the empty corridors. Alfredo, the medical director, must face the inspection of the inflexible inspector, Viola, to whom he must account for the anti Covid measures adopted. Meanwhile Georg, an elegant and light-hearted guest of foreign origins apparently heedless of any health precautions, uses all his talents to win the heart of a new patient, Alida, who, who resists advances with less and less firmness. The two plots will inevitably intertwine. But nothing is as it seems.

1789. The French Revolution swept across and transformed the whole of Europe, shaping the world in which we live. But what remains of it 230 years on? Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano, joined on stage for the first time by Marco Cavalcoli, return with their sharp and ruthlessly ironic writing.