Abraxa Teatro per il terzo anno presenta Reinventare

The association La Capriola/Abraxa Teatro, with the artistic direction of Emilio Genazzini, presents the third edition of "Reinventare," a project to promote theater and performing arts, to create interactions, strategies, mutual influences, and understanding between artists and the audiences of the territories.

The event takes place at the Nino Manfredi Theater in Ostia where, on the same day, various performances are presented, but also at the Fishermen's Hamlet, passing through the Arcipelago Library, Colli Portuensi Library, and Goffredo Mameli Library from October 9 to November 4, 2025, with numerous theater companies specialized in innovative theater.

The project is carried out with the support of the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate of Entertainment and is a winner of the public notice Roma Creativa 365. Culture all year round promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Culture in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura.

The event kicks off on October 9 with a walk curated by Irene Ranaldi to allow citizens to reclaim the origins and memory of the Ostia neighborhood, which originated from the small Fishermen's Hamlet in 1890, when some fishermen of Campanian origin settled with makeshift constructions in the area, not yet fully reclaimed.

On October 10, director, actor, and founder of Teatro Nucleo, Horacio Czertok will be present with the play Contragigantes. On stage, we see the actor, the character Don Quijote, Sancho Panza, Don Miguel de Cervantes, all together with the audience, invited to deepen their understanding of the extraordinary novel.

Drawing from verses by Greek poet Giorgos Seferis, actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen reflects on the figure of the ghost of Oedipus, which she portrayed in Thebes during the time of the Yellow Fever, the last show with the historic Odin Teatret ensemble by Eugenio Barba. As visions, characters, and figures also return from other performances she interpreted at Odin. This is "The Corals of Memory," a co-production Teatret OM and Ponte dei Venti. (October 11 at 8:30 p.m.).

The Fo Rame company will present, on October 12 at 9:00 p.m., "A whore in the asylum," a show by the Fo Rame Theater Company in collaboration with CETEC (European Center for Theatre and Prison). A work that denounces the double oppression suffered by women, both as victims of a patriarchal society and as marginalized and stigmatized subjects by psychiatry. Franca Rame uses the monologue to raise crucial questions regarding human rights and the dignity of individuals, drawing public attention to the need for social and cultural change.

Serafino Murri, a film critic and theorist, as well as a scholar of Pasolini who has published monographs on the author and written for the Treccani Encyclopedia, will present on October 12 at 4:30 p.m. the conference-performance "The Periphery as a Human Condition. The scenarios of Pasolini's cinema, between ancestral myth and the 'anthropological genocide' of Posthistory."

The festival includes on October 24 the film screening "The Country Where Trees Fly" by Davide Barletti and Jacopo Quadri, which tells the story of Eugenio Barba, a revolutionary innovator of the international theater scene and Odin Teatret, a cosmopolitan community active in Denmark for over 60 years. The screening will be commented on by Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley, who will respond to participants' questions.

The entire schedule is free of charge and includes performances for all ages and moments of interaction and discussion between artists and the audience. Besides the initiatives already described, the program will feature performances by Circomare Teatro, ILNAUFRAGARM’ÈDOLCE, La Bottega dei Comici, Teatro Roget, TeatroP, Ygramul Teatro, Teatro Origine, and theatrical readings by Francesca Tranfo from Abraxa Teatro on October 28 at the Arcipelago Library, and October 30 at the Colli Portuensi Library. On November 4, the festival concludes at the Goffredo Mameli Library with Francesca Tranfo's theatrical reading "Do not make peace but be peace."

All performances are free, and reservations are appreciated.
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Teatro Nino Manfredi, Via dei Pallottini 10 Ostia
Reachable by Lido Train from Piramide, Porta S. Paolo, Magliana
Fishermen's Hamlet – via dei Pescatori Ostia
Reachable by Lido Train from Piramide, Porta S. Paolo, Magliana
Arcipelago Library – via Benedetto Croce, 50
Reachable by bus 669, 671, 714
Colli Portuensi Library, Viale dei Colli Portuensi 275
Reachable by bus 31, 44, tram 8
Goffredo Mameli Library via del Pigneto, 22
Reachable by tram 14, 14L, 15 Bus 105
Web: www.abraxa.it/reinventare-3/