Giacomo Bisordi - Fabrizio Sinisi - Matilde Bernardi - Gabriele Portoghese - Federica Rosellini - Candida Nieri — Il Prodigio
About the event
Giacomo Bisordi brings Il Prodigio to the stage, the debut novel by playwright Fabrizio Sinisi, received with critical acclaim, transforming it into a visionary scenic device that questions our need to believe. Rather than a straightforward adaptation, the work unfolds as a contemporary apocalypse in its original sense: a revelation. In the sky above a large Italian city, a face with rough, almost childlike features appears; at first an anomaly, then a presence, and finally an enigma capable of catalyzing collective desires, fears, and tensions.
Around this apparition, signs, healings, and inexplicable events multiply: projection, deception, or divine manifestation? At the center of this shifting reality are Don Luca, a media-savvy priest more accustomed to narrating faith than practicing it; Marta, an elusive and enigmatic figure; and Folker, a magnetic prophet able to capture the need for spirituality and transform it into a new, unsettling form of worship.
With his tense and lucid direction, Bisordi moves through the novel as through a book of visions, constructing a sequence of images, collapses, and apparitions that undermine any stable system of meaning. On stage, Gabriele Portoghese, Federica Rosellini, and Matilde Bernardi embody a universe suspended between desire, faith, and dissolution. Faced with the inexplicable, when every certainty wavers, what do we choose to believe in?
