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ALTER NATIVE: Willem Dafoe’s 54th Biennale Teatro against conformist theatre
di Riccardo Triolo
Reappointed as director of the 2026 Biennale Teatro, running from June 7 to 21, Willem Dafoe continues his exploration of the body as a scenic force capable of reshaping space, image and perception. In ALTER NATIVE, theatre returns as a physical, fragile and anti-standardised experience, resisting every form of algorithmic flattening
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Following the success of his first edition as director – with Theatre is Body – Body is Poetry, an homage to Ronconi’s legendary 1975 Biennale…
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
TEATRO MALIBRAN
Following the success of the 2025 edition, Myth Makers/Creatori di miti – a journey through the generative power of art – Wayne McGregor returns to…
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
TEATRO MALIBRAN
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Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
A leading figure of the new Greek theatre scene and recipient of the Silver Lion at La Biennale di Venezia, Mario Banushi presents for the…
CA’ MALCANTON
Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
For over thirty years, Satoshi Miyagi – a student and heir of the great Japanese theatre master Tadashi Suzuki – has been reinterpreting the key…
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
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Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
The second chapter of Romance Familiare, the Silver Lion-winning trilogy by Mario Banushi, Goodbye, Lindita explores themes of loss and nostalgia through the figure of…
TEATRO ALLE TESE
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In Venice, a new chapter opens in Davide Iodice’s socially engaged theatre practice, developed through a workshop-based process in which “stage specialists” work alongside “reality…
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CENTRO SERVIZI SAN GIOBBE
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Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
Cries gives voice to human suffering, offering a constellation of experiences shaped by slavery, displacement, and migration across centuries. The project is constructed through an…
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ISOLA DI SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE
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Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
By day he studies gravitational waves – the ripples in spacetime produced by the collision of cosmic objects such as black holes. In the interstices,…
ARSENALE (BIENNALE)
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Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
For the first time in Italy, Dorcy Rugamba – Rwandan writer, actor, dancer and director – presents Hewa Rwanda – Letter to the Absent, a…
TEATRO ALLE TESE
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Biennale Teatro 2026 – ALTER NATIVE
The Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale School for Actors and Directors premieres Quindici ragazzə con qualche esperienza, a world first adapted from Enzo Moscato’s…