Giardini della Rocca, Via Frangipane 6, 8:00 PM.

Tickets available here: https://www.boxol.it/next/it/Entroterre/select-ticket/612425/biglietti-teatro-delle-ariette

On the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the Festival of Hospitality, on Saturday, June 20, the Municipality of Bertinoro is pleased to host the Teatro delle Ariette company with the participatory performance “Teatro da mangiare?” (“Theatre to Eat?”).

The event is part of the preview of the Entroterre Festival.

Yes, at Teatro da mangiare? you really do eat—the very food we have been making since 1989, since the beginning of our life as farmers. You eat what we grow and transform on our farm, what we bring forth from our land. Seated around a table, preparing and sharing a real meal, we tell in our own way our unique experience as farmer-actors, of life in the countryside and of theatre made outside theatres.

Teatro da mangiare? was conceived in a kitchen—the kitchen of our home in Le Ariette. We were making tagliatelle while talking with Armando Punzo and Cinzia de Felice, who had stopped to sleep at our house after the performance the night before.

Around the large table where we gather, actors and spectators share the time of a lunch or dinner, something happens that we are unable to explain. A ritual unfolds that is so deeply human that it catapults us into the heart of the present moment, into the absolute “here and now,” without mediation, in the evident and disarming truth of our lives.

Teatro delle Ariette is a company of farmer-actors, of “theatre to eat,” and of autobiography. In 1989, Paola Berselli and Stefano Pasquini left theatre and moved to a farmhouse called Le Ariette. After years of silence and farm work, in 1996 they founded the company with Maurizio Ferraresi. They built the Deposito Attrezzi, a rural building that became their theatre venue. In 2000, at the Volterrateatro festival, they premiered “Teatro da mangiare?”, marking the beginning of their journey.