dramaturgy Jacopo Giacomoni
direction Silvia Costa
with Silvia Costa, Jacopo Giacomoni, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Dylan Guzowski, Elena Rivoltini, Matto Zoppi
music Nicola Ratti
light design Andrea Sanson in collaborazione con Isadora Giuntini
scene sculptures Plastikart Zimmermann & Amoroso
custom Fabio Quaranta
direction assistant Luna Scolari
stagecraft Alovisi Attrezzeria 
pictures Luca Del Pia
press office Antonella Mucciaccio
production La Biennale di Venezia, Cranpi, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa
with the contribution of  MIC – Ministero della Cultura
supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Santiago
with the support of  Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
residency Office for a Human Theatre / teatro alla cartiera
in partnership with Riccione Teatro, Departamento de Artes Escénicas de la Universidad de Playa Ancha de Valparaíso, Chile
Testo vincitore del 58° Premio Riccione per il Teatro 2025
Testo vincitore Biennale College Teatro – Drammaturgia Under 40 (2024-2025)

Tacet takes its starting point from the first mechanical representation of silence: a sound recording of artillery activity on the Moselle front on November 11, 1918. Six lines traced on paper record three seconds of war and three seconds of peace, separated by the armistice ceasefire, marking silence as both a threshold and a measure of time.

Those six lines become the six performers of the show: six trajectories that traverse representations of silence, intertwining or proceeding in parallel according to a precise theatrical synchronicity. Tacet is a chorus of silences centered around one of the few remaining shared secular rituals—the minute of silence—viewed as a fragile collective practice.

Structured as a theatrical score in four movements, the performance plays with the metronome and the measurement of duration. What emerges is a cartography of time and an observatory of silence, leading toward a collective gesture to be performed alongside the audience, questioning what it truly means to be together in silence, within a minute, and within a theater.