Il visitatore, Shakespeare in Venice

To listen to it and live it together with you there will also be a particular guest, William Shakespeare,

who will master one of his masterpieces: the King Lear. Telling you about the inspiration that the English bard takes from the story of the comedians of art that you will soon see on stage, we are not rude to the history of the theater, far from it: in Shakespeare’s works there are many references to the canons of the Italian Commedia dell’Arte , and a lot of his dramaturgy implements and develops broad lines of the canvases that the comedians used to use to enchant the public of half the world after their diaspora from Italy in the sixteenth century finding refuge in the various European courts.

You will find many thoughts and words of Shakespeare born right before your eyes and ears, words that will become immortal, and of which we have imagined the genesis. All thanks to the courage and rebellion to the Doge by a manager, who decides to make a foreigner the king of his own city. And in a contemporary Venice, gripped by depopulation and struggles for its preservation, this history of ours is a metaphor and a hope for art and culture as possible rulers of our future.