Performance

Believing in Masks

Romeo Castellucci

February 27 – March 1 2026

PREMIERE

Running time: 35'

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 major instruments of Believing in Masks

There is a room; sometimes it is white, sometimes black; sometimes it is draped in white if the room is black, sometimes it is draped in black if the room is white. There are no actors here, only things and words. There is a pipe that is not a pipe, but merely an excuse, and that is not the issue. Let us go all the way to the end, where there is a chair seen from a distance that recalls Andy Warhol, that recalls me, that recalls you. There is a certain number of spectators and a certain number of rigid masks. They are even numbers. Each mask belongs only to the person who happens to receive it and will 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 Thanks to: Marco Bertani, Paolo Faroni, Eugenia Fera, Erica Modotti 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 We would also like to thank Raffaella Lubelli, Tommaso Galloni, Ivan Grassi, and Monica Marchesini for their collaboration