Following the performances of the two selected productions in 2025, meeting with the artists – Peso Piuma and Giovanni Onorato – and the Visionar* group of Ravenna.


Peso Piuma (Italian for “featherweight”): which means light, fast and never afraid to hit hard! The self-called “average 20-to-30-years-old company” conjugates a quirky dark sense of humor with deep contemporary themes, social satire and just a drizzle of poetry. Born in 2022 and resisting since the first day in the frightening climate of southern European theatre, the Milan-based company travelled all the way through Italy with Amazon Crime, after the play was noted at the prestigious Hystrio Award and performed at the InScena! Italian Theater Festival in New York. Today, many hours on the road later, the company is still looking forward for the next adventure…

Giovanni Onorato. Born in Rome in 1995, he studied theater outside the academies. Important for his training are the encounters with the theater of Roberto Latini, Daria Deflorian and Antonio Rezza. In 2016 he moved to Berlin where he studied contemporary dance for a year at Tanzfabrik Berlin. Back in Rome he works with Dante Antonelli, Filippo Timi and the Fettarappa/Guerrieri company. In 2022 his first work, “Suck my Iperuranio”, debuted in the venue Carrozzerie n.o.t in Rome, after winning the #pillole production fund from the Teatro Studio Uno. The piece is finalist in the Direction Under30 call and wins the Luna Crescente award. Also in 2022, “ Questo poco che sono” comes out, his first musical project. His new project “A.L.D.E. I never wanted to be here” was a finalist in the Biennale College competition and the Alberto Dubito award, as well as winning the special mention of the Dante Cappelletti “tuttoteatro.com” award. He organized a poetry evening entitled “Ghost Track 1” for the Romaeuropa Festival and was involved by the companies Deflorian/Tagliarini and Muta Imago to be part of the “Index” project. With Muta Imago he performs in the piece “Ashes”, winner of the Ubu prize for the best sound research. He studies philosophy. He has worked as a waiter, baker, detective and chauffeur.