Space: Carrozzeria abbandonata
Production: Teatro del Mantice

Direction: Edoardo Zucchetti
Cast: Sofia Busia, Archimede Pii, Cinzia Bagni, Davide Arena, Carolina Pezzini, Marco Gargiulo, Alessandra Panzone, Mirco Risaliti, Anastasia Ciullini, Marco Bartolini

Photography: Marco Borrelli
Video: Watch

A staging of Arthur Schnitzler’s Girotondo, structured as a sequence of encounters between pairs of characters, each linked to the next in a continuous chain. Set in a disused workshop, the production follows the original circular form of the text, where each scene connects to the previous and the final encounter returns to the starting point.

Through these successive relationships, the work presents a series of interactions driven primarily by desire and physical attraction. The characters move through different social contexts and roles, yet the dynamics between them remain repetitive, revealing patterns of behavior that do not lead to lasting connection.

The structure of the piece emphasizes continuity and recurrence, highlighting how each encounter mirrors the previous one while shifting perspective through different characters. In this way, the production reflects on the instability of relationships and the difficulty of establishing genuine emotional bonds.