Category: Theatre
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5 stars – Magnificent Bacon is the story of two teenagers. Mark, an introvert, is new to the school, and doesn’t find it easy to make friends. Darren is bossy and mean, but an unbalanced connection is created between them. This is a story about growing out of adolescence, growing out of toxic love.
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4 stars – beautifully built Olivia is a model who poses for famous painters. After a fight with one of them, she meets Paul, a kind, unknown artist who offers her help and who would like to paint her. This is a fresh start for both of them, but their relationship soon becomes complicated.
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4 stars – New traditional tale A couple of twins has been separated at birth. Renzo is Italian and Mi Ho is Taiwanese (their mother, the queen, was polyamorous). A green bird secretly suggests to each of them to go to Monterotondo, but their meeting unleashes an uncontrollable series of events…
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5 stars – explosive A rodeo clown aspiring to become a cowboy is surprised by his shadow, who isn’t going to let go of him. So begins their funny story, full of energy, vitality and high spirits.
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4 stars – energetic downfall Charly is fine. She loves her job and she’s good at doing it. She wakes up late and waits for her customers’ calls. A power cut makes her day different from all the others. But she is fine.
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4 stars – breathtaking acrobatics Two acrobats, and the difficulties of collaborating. A female and a male body: there is a chance that she can also have him climb on her and she can carry his weight. So, they try this chance.
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2 stars – slow-paced In the suspended space of a coma, a poet faces two instances of his subconscious mind. One is trying to help him find inspiration to write and getting to work, the other is suffering from his selfishness. More and more details about the protagonist emerge in this abstract setting.
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4 stars – Dark, intense frenzy In Mr Jones’s farm, the pigs have taken over. Unlike humans, pigs say they deserve food because it keeps them alive to organise the other animals and protect them against the bipeds. ‘Four legs good, two legs bad.’
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5 stars – the cleverest parody on stereotypes and racism Who wants to become a LatinX? Between castings, the character Manuel lectures the audience through an exhilarating workshop that plays with stereotypes and prejudices on people from Latin America.
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4 stars – peace & fun Between Israelis and Palestinians there seems to stand a tall being, the ‘Giraffe of Peace’. Noam Shuster Eliassi was raised in the Oasis of Peace, a mixed space for voluntary coexistence for the two nations, and does political stand-up comedy in the name of peace.
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