Two Hearts and a Canadian Tent

Space: Villa Gerini
Production: inQuanto Teatro

Author: Third Angle
Cast: Giacomo Bogani, Diletta Oculisti

Photography: Marco Borrelli
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The work presents a portrait of two lovers far removed from idealized narratives of romance, yet deeply recognizable. It reflects a relationship built not on resolution, but on repetition—where closeness and detachment coexist, and where the difficulty of understanding one another becomes part of the bond itself.

The text is an adaptation of an unpublished contemporary English play, presented here for the first time in Italy as a full production, following a staged reading at the Intercity Festival in Sesto Fiorentino in 2005.

A defining feature of the production is its adaptability. The piece can be staged both indoors and outdoors—in parks, gardens, forests, beaches, lakesides, or riverbanks—making use of natural light and reinforcing its sense of displacement and openness.

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
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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.