Category: Reviews

  • La casa del mago, by Emanuele Trevi

    Emanuele Trevi’s elegant writing brings us on the footsteps of the narrator’s father, building a fantastic portrait of the old man. After sharing memories of his lifetime, the symbol for the father becomes his old house, initially set on sale.

  • Come d’aria, by Ada D’Adamo

    Post by @federicabalbi It is with terrible honesty and with acute lucidity, that Ada D’Adamo tells the story of her own life since the birth of her daughter Daria, who was born with a level of disability of 100% due to the brain malformation known as holoprosencephaly. At the turn of fifty, Ada is diagnosed…

  • Women Talking, by Miriam Toews

    One of the men was caught red-handed, so the women are talking. It’s the first time in their lives that they take the agency to gather and react. For four years, between 2005 and 2009, women and girls of the Mennonite colony have been knocked unconscious with belladonna spray and raped by the men of…

  • Wasteband, by Patrícia Portela

    When space and time collapse, and reality is ruled by machines, what is the part of humans, beyond waiting?

  • Bewilderment, by Richard Powers

    This is not a novel for hope. It is rather a warning for humanity, and a eulogy for the Earth. It acquires a scientific point of view that invalidates the rhetoric of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, thus offering a point of view that makes it possible to anesthetise the tragedy, the latter being already unstoppable and…

  • Gunter

    5 stars – Revolutionary storytelling Despite its mysterious presentation, this show does have a plot, even if not a traditional one. In 1605, the young Anne Gunter is suspected to be bewitched, and her father Brian Gunter, the richest man in the village, points the finger against three women of the village who, to his…

  • Call Mr. Robeson

    5 stars – Extremely engaging A lawyer in his free time, a singer by career, and a civil rights activist for his mission. Paul Robeson’s incredible biography can only get more and more interesting by digging deeper into it.

  • Julius Caesar Must Die

    3 stars – articulated and dense There is great excitement in Rome, where the political atmosphere is electric with ambition and conspiracies. Largely faithful to Shakespeare’s tragedy, except for some cuts and an introductory addiction, this new show by Myths Unbound Production is articulated and dense in its composition.

  • Mirrored Metamorphosis

    3 stars – Young and intense Mirrored Metamorphosis is an intense show entirely realised by an all-female group of school students. The play rediscovers the story of Anthony and Cleopatra under the woman’s point of view. She was bestowed the power on a reign when she was still very young, and men only considered her…

  • Femme Natale

    5 stars – Bloody fun Does a man really want to know what it is like to give birth? For what exact reason do neo mums go to yoga? How would a hygienic pad frown, if it had a face? Would it win the challenge against a moon cup?