Filippo Nigro, the protagonist and director together with Fabrizio Arcuri of this Italian version, brings life to a humane and informal story-confession of special experiences, enlightenments, small manias, encounters, emotions and unforgettable moments, during which focus is constantly set on relationships with his father, his first love, the failure of his marriage, and his search for help in moments of difficulty. In the end, the list becomes more useful for himself than for his mother: «If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.»

With the help of the audience – called on in each performance to serve as a destabilising and innovative element – and through writing of a constantly fast-paced and enjoyable rhythm, the play manages to touch, with sensitivity and a non-superficial levity, on the delicate and complex theme of depression.


text Duncan Macmillan translation Michele Panella directed by Fabrizio Arcuri, Filippo Nigro with Filippo Nigro curated by Luigina Tusini

production CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG, Sardegna Teatro

duration 70 min


Filippo Nigro is an acclaimed actor in film, television and theater. He made his film debut in 1998. In 2001, he began his collaboration with Ferzan Özpetek, who wanted him in the cast of the film Le fate ignoranti and two years later in his next film, La finestra di fronte, with which the actor won a nomination for the Nastri d’argento as best supporting actor and won the Foreign Press Golden Globe as best actor. He continues to work in cinema, theater, and numerous television series, including most recently Suburra – The Series, produced by Netflix.

Fabrizio Arcuri is director and founder, in 1991, of Accademia degli Artefatti. In addition to his planning and curation for the company as artistic director and director, he has always combined an intense activity of cultural promotion, signed important curatorships, artistic directions, for festivals, theaters and events. Among them Teatro della Tosse, the International Festival Prospettiva for the Teatro Stabile di Torino, Short Theatre and many others. Since 2020 he has been co-artistic director of CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG.