The short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Hugo Award) by Ursula K. Le Guin confronts us with a reflection on the paradoxes of the world and human indifference. Will this indifference allow the people who encounter this performance to place the aforementioned reflections back into that corner of consciousness that is now filled with the daily news and images of injustice, war, and genocide that flow before their eyes?

The celebrated novel The Left Hand of Darkness (Hugo Award and Nebula Award), tells of a planet populated by androgynous yet hermaphroditic individuals and a human from Earth struggling in his mission as ambassador for the Intergalactic League from his own lack of understanding for this society.

In her equally famous Dispossessed: an ambiguos utopia (Hugo Award, Locus Award, Nebula Award, Jupiter Award), the author tells of a small world of people who have given themselves the name “odonians” in memory of the founder of their community, Odo, who lived several generations before the time in which the novel takes place. Odonianism is anarchy, whose main target is the authoritarian state, and its main moral-practical component is cooperation in the forms of solidarity and mutual aid.

In the introduction to the short story The Day Before the Revolution, the author defines Odo as “one of those who walked away from Omelas.”

In a rarefied and mysterious scene, consisting of fog, smoke, sounds, video and lights, conceived by Sacco, the iconic Eva Robin’s tells, through the strength of her personal bearing and by bringing her own political body in the picture, a story that cannot leave one indifferent, while stark images of reality suddenly emerge in the air, as overwhelming as they are ethereal, to connect the words of this powerful Le Guin story with the everyday of our days and its macroscopic planetary injustices that have now become habit. 

NB: The performance includes the complicit participation of a group of spectators who will receive instructions for the execution of a simple yet dramaturgically pregnant stage action.


text Ursula K. Le Guin
courtesy of Agenzia Danesi Tolnay

with Eva Robin’s
concept, direction, set-light-music-video design Davide Sacco / ErosAntEros

production ErosAntEros, Teatri di Vita

previews September 6th 2025, Civita Festival, Civita Castellana (VT); September 20th 2025, Armonie d’Arte Festival, Borgia (CZ); September 27th, 15 years of ErosAntEros, Ravenna national premiere October 16th-19th 2025, Teatri di Vita, Bologna

duration 45′



Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, better known as Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 – 2018), was an American science fiction and fantasy author and glottistorian. She won eight Hugo Awards, six Nebula Awards and twenty-four Locus Awards and is considered one of the major science fiction authors. The depth and relevance of her themes, which range from feminism to utopia and pacifism, have made her novels known and appreciated far beyond the traditional circle of genre readers. Her works include notably The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Dispossessed: an ambiguos utopia (1974) and The Earthsea Cycle (1968-2001).

Eva Robin’s, transgender icon of the Italian performing arts, already a nominee for Nastri d’Argento and UBU Awards for best actress, has starred in cinema (with Dario Argento, Alessandro Benvenuti, Simona Izzo, Maurizio Nichetti), theater (with Andrea Adriatico, Andrea Chiodi, Veronica Cruciani, Valter Malosti, Leo Muscato), music (in early days with Amanda Lear and then soloist), television and visual art.

Davide Sacco, theater director and artistic director, trained through a multiform musical journey and foundational experiences with groups of the contemporary theater scene such as Motus, Odin Teatret, Schaubühne, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Teatro Valdoca. From 2005 to 2010 he was deeply connected to Teatro delle Albe and Fanny & Alexander taking part as music designer and performer in several productions. Since 2010 he has been director and founder with Agata Tomsic of the theater group ErosAntEros, which is now in relationship with the major Italian and European theaters and festivals. Since 2018 he has been directing with Tomsic the international contemporary theater festival POLIS Teatro Festival welcoming in Ravenna some of the major protagonists of the European theater scene.