a tribute to the popular theater of Dario Fo
written and directed by Michele Mori
with Sara Allevi, Marie Coutance, Eleonora Marchiori, Michele Mori, Stefano Rota, Pierdomenico Simone e Marco Zoppello

National Premiere

A dinner-theater performance that sinks its hands and teeth into the great traditions of folk, peasant, and jester culture. Gathered around laden tables, the actors of Stivalaccio Teatro welcome the audience, bringing to life a banquet of stories, jests, songs, and invectives that arrive from an ancient time but speak to the present with surprising clarity. The show is born from the tales and stories of the peasant world: that of the marginalized, the poor, and the rebels. Between mockery and exuberant physical comedy, a living and cheeky theater takes the stage—one that speaks directly to the audience and knows no "fourth wall." The language is the frank, carnal tongue of popular tradition, capable of transforming laughter into a political act and the dinner table into a stage. Between hunger and abundance, sacred and profane, misery and desire, La cena dei Villani restores a voice to those historically excluded from the official narrative. It celebrates a theater that rises from below, feeds on bodies and words, and finds its most authentic ritual in the banquet: eating together to laugh, to think, and to recognize one another as human.

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