Teatro dei luoghi
International festival

TEATRO DEI LUOGHI

19th EDITION

No harm to the world

In a time wounded by hatred, marked by conflict, inequality, and environmental crises, art takes on the responsibility to narrate, question, and shake.
No harm to the world is the promise of this Festival: to explore how theatre can be a civil action, a political gesture, and an act of love, without betraying its deepest vocation.

This is not just about peace, morality, or ecology in the abstract sense, but about a form of daily presence that chooses to listen rather than speak, to stay rather than flee, to understand rather than judge, to mend rather than tear.

Each performance, each chosen location is a threshold: between past and present, between the visible and the invisible, between the individual and the community.
Living without harming is a civil act, a gentle step through the territories of the human, a deep listening to people and places — spaces that hold invisible traces of the relationship between life, death, nature, sacredness, and collective identity.

An invitation to pause, listen, remember — and maybe even heal.
A crossing that acknowledges delicacy, respect, and fragility as the essence of existence, because no passage is neutral… there are no innocent crossings.
If we learn to cross carefully, we can do so leaving behind not scars, but seeds.
Perhaps the future begins precisely like this: with a careful step, through a threshold crossed with respect.

📍 VENUES

🎟️ TICKETS

• Standard entry: €10

• Reduced Adisu: €5
(for students of Università del Salento, Conservatorio “Tito Schipa”, Accademia di Belle Arti di Lecce)

• Eco Liquido, Dalla Luna alla Terra: €3

• Punto di partenza per un range perfetto: €5

FREE ADMISSION EVENTS

La Ridiculosa Commedia, Ánemos Nóos, Paradiso Perduto, Frequenze Naturali

ADVANCE BOOKING

• Tickets available at vivaticket.it and authorized retailers
• Koreja Theatre Box Office:
Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
• Artwork Info Point, Palazzo Scarciglia, via Libertini 36
Artwork Bookshop, Piazza Duomo 5
Open daily, 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM

Tickets are available in advance as per the purchase options listed.
Any remaining availability may be purchased on the day of the show.
The on-site box office opens one hour before showtime.

⚠️ RESERVATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED

Program may be subject to changes beyond our control.
Punctuality is strongly recommended.

♿ ACCESSIBILITY

The events scheduled for Teatro dei Luoghi 2025 are accessible thanks to the AbilFesta service.
AbilFesta is a project by L’Integrazione, designed to ensure full inclusion and accessibility to all types of events through practical, personalized services.

Book on lintegrazione.it to benefit — for free — from:
• qualified assistance
• reserved parking
• wheelchair rental
• noise-cancelling headphones
• electric recharge point
• accessible toilets
• reserved rest areas

AbilFesta allows people with disabilities to attend events safely and freely, overcoming barriers that create exclusion and providing a truly autonomous experience.
Services are free but must be reserved at least 72 hours before the event.

To check event accessibility, scan the QR code in the “Venues” section of this brochure

📅 THURSDAY, JULY 17

🕘 9:15 PM | Teatro, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

TTB – Accademia delle Forme Sceniche, Accademia Arte Diversità – Teatro La Ribalta
Antonio Viganò and Teatro Koreja

IL SUONO DELLA CADUTA

A project of civil theatre involving people experiencing psychological, physical, and social hardship.
Inspired by the Nazi T4 program, the performance gives voice to silenced lives, transforming exclusion into art and remembrance.

Written and directed by Antonio Viganò
Cast: Samuele Notaristefano, Paola Guerra, Paolo Grossi, Michael Untertrifaller, Stefania Muratori, Michele Fiocchi, Jason De Majo, Johannes Notdurfter

Project supported by MiC – Direzione Generale Spettacolo, as part of grants promoting accessibility to live performances for artists with disabilities (D.D.G. 20 November 2023, rep. no. 1749).

🎟️ Limited seating performance

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Teatro Koreja

COME AMORE CANTA

Theatre concert

Through myth and poetry, the characters in this ballad seek new words to sing of love.
They reveal ancient cages that strip women of power by denying them choice.
Music and song are not just accompaniment or commentary—they are the very words and body of the performance.

From Ovid, with original texts by Fabio Chiriatti
Directed by Salvatore Tramacere
Cast: Emanuela Pisicchio, Eleonora Lezzi, Enrico Stefanelli

📅 FRIDAY, JULY 18

🕘 9:15 PM | Teatro, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

TTB – Accademia delle Forme Sceniche, Accademia Arte Diversità – Teatro La Ribalta
Antonio Viganò and Teatro Koreja

IL SUONO DELLA CADUTA

🎟️ Limited seating performance

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Martina Natuzzi and Christian Greco

DALLA LUNA ALLA TERRA

Concert for harp and piano

Following the imaginative path of Jules Verne, this concert leads the listener on a journey in reverse, from the Moon back to Earth.
Harp and piano engage in a dialogue rich with emotion, from bel canto to romantic virtuosity, from symbolist visions to modern unease.

Harp: Martina Natuzzi
Piano: Christian Greco
Music by: Beethoven, Caramiello, Debussy, Ravel, Smetana

📅 SATURDAY, JULY 19

🕘 9:15 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Teatro Koreja in collaboration with Potenziali Evocati Multimediali

X DI XYLELLA, BIBBIA E ALBERI SACRI

Xylella, which destroys olive trees from within, becomes a symbol of female pain: invisible, silent, deep.
Like trees, women hold memory and life. Both ask for care, attention, and respect to be reborn.

Cast: Chiara Dello Iacovo, Luna Maggio, Emanuela Pisicchio, Kyara Russo, Maria Tucci, Andjelka Vulic
Directed by: Gabriele Vacis
Sound and staging: Roberto Tarasco
Artistic consulting and coordination: Salvatore Tramacere

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

FREQUENZE NATURALI

DJ set curated by Enrico Stefanelli

Soft lights and shared conversation, melodies blending with the scents of the garden: mint, rosemary, basil… simple and vibrant aromas that evoke roots, seasons, home.
An invitation to listen, to relax, to feel part of something. In sound, in earth, in gazes.

📅 SUNDAY, JULY 20

🕘 9:15 PM | Masseria Tagliatelle

I Nuovi Scalzi / Crest

LA RIDICULOSA COMMEDIA

With humor and irony, fictional descendants of historic figures tied to the “Disfida di Barletta” reflect on corruption, freedom, future, and family relationships.
The masks of Italian theatre and the techniques of Commedia dell’Arte meet the vitality of the present, creating a theatrical play that blends roots with a contemporary outlook.

Cast: Zelia Pelacani Catalano, Vincenzo Giordano, Francesco Ippolito, Alessandra Martino
Directed by: Savino Maria Italiano

🕥 10:30 PM | Masseria Tagliatelle

ÁNEMOS NÓOS

Concert curated by Emanuela Pisicchio and Enrico Stefanelli

A sonic journey between breath (ánemos) and thought (nóos), between body and vision.
Voice and guitar meet in a dialogue that, like a light wind, stirs the soul.
An intimate and evocative concert that traverses languages, memories, and silences to restore the original power of sound.

📅 MONDAY, JULY 21

🕕 6:00 PM & 7:00 PM | Foresta Urbana

Azul

SENTIERI#12

Theatre en route to rediscovered places
🎟️ Limited seating performance

A poetic walking action, a dreamlike dramaturgy written specifically for the Foresta Urbana.
Walking becomes a nomadic flow of perception—an invitation to immerse oneself in the landscape, crossing it as a dialogue of our being, a body of our body.

Concept and direction: Serena Gatti, Raffaele Natale
Verses: Serena Gatti
Sound design: Raffaele Natale
Cast: Serena Gatti, Raffaele Natale, Stefano Puzzuoli

🕕 6:00 PM | Monastero degli Olivetani, Università del Salento

Talk

DA PADRE IN FIGLIO. OVVERO DA “ITACA” A “GENTILUOMO IN MARE”

In memory of Gino and Alessandro Santoro

A collective reflection with social theatre professionals on “the illness that theatre heals,” sharing the final outcomes of the workshop Siamo Fatti di.versi curated by E. Grillo and B. Chiantera.

Institutional greetings: Fabio Pollice, Donato De Benedetto, Flavia Lecciso
Participants: Antonio Viganò, Arianna Lupo, Elisa Leuzzi, Tonio De Nitto, Carlo Durante, Paola Pepe, Erika Grillo
Moderator: Paola Martino

LIS interpretation service funded by the Inclusion Fund for deaf and hard-of-hearing people (D.P.C.M. 14.02.2023), project UO Disabilità e DSA – Università del Salento – ENS Puglia.

🕘 9:15 PM | Piazza Duomo

Roberto Latini

PARADISO PERDUTO

In Paradiso Perduto, John Milton recounts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden.
Their fall is not just a loss, but above all a moment to reflect on freedom, sin, and the complexity of good and evil.
As citizens of the world and of this time, we have the chance to transmit signs of beauty.

Written and performed by: Roberto Latini

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Gianluca De Rubertis

DISCORSI SUONATI SU PAOLO CONTE

Concert

Founder of the band Il Genio with Alessandra Contini, Gianluca De Rubertis explores the poetic and musical world of Paolo Conte.
A journey that unveils the secrets of the songwriter’s craft, offering a personal, intimate reinterpretation of some of his most iconic pieces.

📅 TUESDAY, JULY 22

🕕 6:00 PM & 7:00 PM | Foresta Urbana

Azul

SENTIERI#12

Theatre en route to rediscovered places
🎟️ Limited seating performance

🕗 8:00 PM & 9:30 PM | Istituto per le Scienze Umane, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Brigitte Cirla & Sébastien Béranger

RECETTES IMMORALES

🎟️ Limited seating performance

Based on the book by M. V. Montalbán, Recettes Immorales explores the boundaries between ethics and desire through imaginative, poetic, and provocative recipes.
Brigitte Cirla and Sébastien Béranger invite the audience to reflect on the power of taste as a metaphor for moral choices and inner freedom.

Inspired by texts by: Montalbán, Topor, Li Po, Baudelaire
Composed by: Sébastien Béranger
Created and performed by: Brigitte Cirla

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Clio Evans & Lele Spedicato

PUNTO DI PARTENZA PER UN RANGE PERFETTO

First artistic study

In Italy, type 1 diabetes affects around 300,000 people, with over 1,000 new cases in children each year.
To give voice to this reality, Clio Evans’ words seek a cradle in the music of Lele Spedicato, in an artistic study born from the urgency to tell what diabetes means beyond the diagnosis: a world of emotions, choices, and resilience.

Written by: Clio Evans
Performed by: Clio Evans and Lele Spedicato

📅 WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

🕕 6:45 PM | Cimitero Monumentale

A. Renda / Albe, Ravenna Teatro

NEPHESH – Proteggere l’ombra

🎧 Sound dramaturgy with headphones
🎟️ Limited seating performance

A sound dramaturgy in headphones leads visitors through graves, inscriptions, dust, and shadows.
Not a guided tour, but a moment of deep listening and reflection on the ties that bind people and memory—stories of life and death.

Concept, direction, dramaturgy: Alessandro Renda
Text: Tahar Lamri, Alessandro Renda
Voices: Gemma Hansson Carbone, Tahar Lamri, Alessandro Renda
Sound design: Francesco Tedde / Antropotopia

🕘 9:15 PM | Chiostro Convitto Palmieri

Carlotta Viscovo

IL CORPO DELLA LOTTA

Carlotta Viscovo transforms the body into a space of resistance and storytelling, while a sculptor draws or shapes clay inspired by what unfolds.
Through dance, speech, and action, bodies become surfaces on which to read traces of invisible struggles, wounds, survival strategies, and a desire for redemption.

Project by: Carlotta Viscovo
With: Carlotta Viscovo and Ettore Greco
Sound: Marco Mantovani
Dramaturgy: Angela Dematté

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Gianni Blasi & Vincenzo Pentassuglia

ECO LIQUIDO

Concert

An intimate dialogue emerges between the rhythm of the cajón and the melodies of the piano.
Two instruments intertwine in a single soundscape to explore emotional landscapes in constant motion.

Piano: Gianni Blasi
Cajón: Vincenzo Pentassuglia

📅 THURSDAY, JULY 24

🕖 6:45 AM & 🕕 6:45 PM | Cimitero Monumentale

A. Renda / Albe, Ravenna Teatro

NEPHESH – Proteggere l’ombra

🎟️ Limited seating performance

🕘 9:15 PM | Chiostro Convitto Palmieri

Atalaya de Musicas

RESISTENCIA ARBÓREA

Flamenco

Resistencia Arbórea is both a cry and a song. A ritual on stage that sinks its roots into the earth, into memory, and into the veins of flamenco tradition.
It tells of the silent and resilient struggle of trees, living symbols of a resistance that concerns us all.

Vocals: Inma la Carbonera
Violin: Celia Vicente
Dancers: Paula González Salazar, Lucía You
Actress: Lidia Maudit

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Nassim Soleimanpour / 369 gradi

WHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT

With Paolo Paticchio

A play with no director or rehearsals. The actor reads the script for the first time on stage, with the audience.
Written in 2010 by Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour, it’s a metaphorical reflection on freedom, distant from any political agenda.
A unique theatrical experiment—surprising, brave, and authentic.

📅 FRIDAY, JULY 25

🕖 6:45 AM & 🕕 6:45 PM | Cimitero Monumentale

A. Renda / Albe, Ravenna Teatro

NEPHESH – Proteggere l’ombra

🎟️ Limited seating performance

🕘 9:15 PM | Chiostro Convitto Palmieri

Teatro Koreja

MODUGNO, PRIMA DI VOLARE

Few truly know the origins of Domenico Modugno.
This performance revives the memory of the historical and cultural context in which young Mimmo nurtured his creative spark—a small town in Northern Salento, which he left to pursue his dreams in Rome.

Written by: Angelo De Matteis, in collaboration with Salvatore Tramacere
Directed by: Salvatore Tramacere
Cast: Angelo De Matteis, Emanuela Pisicchio, Enrico Stefanelli

🕥 10:30 PM | Ortale, Cantieri Teatrali Koreja

Atalaya de Musicas

SUITE FLAMENCA

Multidisciplinary flamenco performance

In this contemporary and innovative show, Juana Casado fuses flamenco with other disciplines and amplifies the expressive power of gesture and voice through the verses of Federico García Lorca.
An intense experience where every element is in perfect harmony.

Vocals: Inma la Carbonera
Violin: Celia Vicente
Dancers: Paula González Salazar, Lucía You
Actress: Lidia Maudit