Performance
Believing in Masks
Romeo Castellucci
February 27 – March 1 2026
PREMIERE
Running time: 45'
Full price: €24
Under 30 / over 65 / groups: €17
Students: €12
Membership: included in the subscription
The ninth edition of the FOG Performing Arts festival opens with a site-specific creation by Romeo Castellucci, conceived for the spaces of Triennale.
"Description of the Scenic Apparatus for Credere alle Maschere.
There is a room, at times white, at times black, draped at times in white fabric,if the room is black, at times in black fabric, if the room is white. It depends.
There are no actors.
There is a sofa against the back wall, reminiscent of Andy Warhol.
There are words. White. Black. Red.
Silence is requested.
A certain number of spectators can be accommodated, but there are no seats.
The room holds a number of rigid masks.
Each mask belongs to one person alone and shall be theirs for life."
R.C.
Director and stage, lighting and costume designer Romeo Castellucci (Cesena, Italy, 1960) is known throughout the world for creating a theatre founded on the totality of the arts and aimed at an integral perception. He has also written various theoretical essays on directing. His theatre engages in a type of dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, thus becoming a complex and supple form of art, a theatre made of extraordinarily rich images expressed in a language as comprehensible as music, sculpture, painting or architecture. His stagings are regularly invited to and produced by the most prestigious international theaters, opera houses and festivals, in over fifty countries covering all the continents.
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Credits
By: Romeo Castellucci
Dramaturgical collaboration: Piersandra Di Matteo
Artistic assistance: Sergio Scarlatella
Technical direction: Eugenio Resta
Artistic artifacts: Filippo Zimmermann & Plastikart Studio
Technique: Andrei Benchea
Electric technique: Andrea Sanson
Production direction: Benedetta Briglia
Production: Caterina Soranzo
Organization: Giulia Colla
Technical team in Cesena: Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini, Dario Neri
Administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
Economy: Massimiliano Coli
Production: Societas
Co-production: Triennale Milano Teatro, Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, Grec Festival Barcelona 2026, Transart – Festival for contemporary cultures
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