Cantiere Teatro

The Fondazione Teatro Donizetti aims to promote a strong civic sense that aims to put the need for education in theatrical culture at the center along with quality. This mission must be combined with the goal of reaching ever new audiences, particularly young people, to whom it gives tools for reading the theatrical experience.

The Donizetti Theater Foundation is pleased to present educational projects related to the Prose Season and Other Paths and 2024-2025 aimed at young high school audiences. This section has always stood out for the care given to educational projects aimed at schools, young people and its own audience.

THE SEASON AT A SUBSIDIZED PRICE

TICKETS

The Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, as every year, offers schools in the City and Province of Bergamo the opportunity to make a subsidized reservation to purchase tickets for access to the evening performances included in the playbill in the Prose Season and Altri Percorsi

PROSA at the Donizetti Theatre

  • STALLS 1ST SECTOR (€19.00)
  • STALLS 2ND SECTOR (€16.00)
  • BALCONY 1st GALLERY (€13.00)
  • BALCONY 2nd GALLERY – NUMBERED 1st GALLERY (€ 11.00)
  • NUMBERED 2nd GALLERY (€9.00)

ALTRI PERCORSI. at the Teatro Sociale and the Teatro Donizetti

  • ALL SECTORS (€11.00)

SUBSCRIPTIONS

It is especially noted that discounted subscriptions are again available for this year for:
  • Season of ALTRI PERCORSI: € 60.00 – to take part in the 7 shows of the review
An opportunity this, offered to both classes and individual students, for them to begin a journey that familiarizes them with the world of theater.
Students who subscribe to the Altri Percorsi Season will have the opportunity to participate in some post-show meetings with actors and directors of the plays on the bill and will be accompanied in their viewing by Maria Grazia Panigada, Director of the Season.

CONVENTION WITH ATB

For performances at the Teatro Sociale, the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, in collaboration with ATB, in order to make it easier to get to the performance venue, offers users free access to ATB urban public transportation (including funicular), exclusively on the service lines, to and from Città Alta on performance days, starting 2 hours before the start of the performance and up to 1 hour after leaving the theater.

MEETINGS IN SCHOOLS

Project around the play L’avaro
Prose Season – Donizetti Theater
THE PROJECT
What is a classic? The great classics, of which Molière is surely the emblem, are voices that come not from the past, but from the future. They are works that have in them the very essence of humanity and speak to us today, as they spoke to us centuries ago and as they will continue to speak to us in the centuries to come. They are like great caves that welcome everyone’s voices and depending on what we are shouting bring back their echoes. They are huge mirrors that reflect from time to time the light of those who read, interpret or watch them. This is why they are always topical because current and anchored in their own time is the gaze of those who stage them.
And so it is with this Miser as well. The protagonist is always him, the miser Harpagon, so obsessed with money that he even puts it before his children whom he would like to settle with economically advantageous marriages. The story, however, is told in a contemporary key, veining it with new nuances so much so that Arpagone’s avarice might appear to be a virtue pointing the way to a conscious use of money to be contrasted with today’s consumerist society. It is no coincidence that Harpagon wears second-hand clothes, and in this new light, this tragicomic character becomes, despite all his faults, a model of wisdom, ecology and thrift in sharp contrast to the contemporary capitalist society devoted to the most unbridled consumerism that characterizes all the other characters. The director’s reading thus highlights the contrast between the old world tied to accumulation (and thrift) and the squandering of the new generations eager only to enjoy money. But which is the right path? Molière, as well as this modern direction by Luigi Saravo, does not give us answers, but like all great classics, it prompts us to ask questions.
The meeting will start from Molière’s text, analyzing its characters and plot to arrive at a fertile dialogue with students on the founding themes of the play.

The meetings will be held by Sara Pagani
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours To be arranged with faculty
(January/first half of February 2025)		 school free max. 2 classes per meeting
The tour concludes with a viewing of the play L’avaro, on stage from February 8 to 16, 2025 at the Donizetti Theater.
Tickets from €9.00 to €19.00 depending on the sector chosen | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW

Project around the play L’Arte della Commedia
Prose Season – Donizetti Theater
THE PROJECT
Comedy has always elevated the theatrical play to a true art form: an art capable of never aging, because it is connected in double strand with current events. Eduardo de Filippo, the ideal heir to a stage tradition that, from the classical Neapolitan masks to the “naked” ones of Pirandello’s theater, never spared more or less veiled jabs at the politics and society of his time, knew this well. In this, The Art of Comedy is undoubtedly the most biting and “Pirandellian” of the great Eduardo’s works and, perhaps not coincidentally, one of the least performed. Through the lucid and merciless gaze of its protagonists, line after line, De Filippo’s text is above all a strenuous and highly topical defense of freedom of expression, which theater and artists should always enjoy.
Starting precisely from the analysis of the original script, the meeting with theater operator Stefano Benedetti will thus be an opportunity to discover the context and principles of the dramaturgy of one of the greatest playwrights of the Italian twentieth century, but not only. Alternating between moments of reading the text and reflections on its staging potential, students will be invited to (re)discover live performance in its most playful and communal dimension, far beyond the mere printed page. A path designed specifically to guide young viewers to the vision of timeless events and characters, and to demonstrate how, in the eternal duel between power and satire, laughter is still the most effective form of resistance.
The meetings will be held by Stefano Benedetti.
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours To be arranged with faculty
(February/early March 2025)		 school free max. 2 classes per meeting
The course concludes with a viewing of the play L’Arte della Commedia, March 8 to 16, 2025 at the Donizetti Theater.
Tickets from €9.00 to €19.00 depending on the sector chosen | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW

Project around the play Anfitrione
Season of Altri Percorsi – Social Theater
THE PROJECT
Our new concepts are taken from old concepts, repurposed, modified. We only ever think in analogies. Analogy is taking one aspect of a concept, reusing it in another context while preserving something of its meaning and letting something else go, so that the new combination produces new and effective meanings.
What is the relationship between Amphitryon, white holes and black holes, hikikomori and extremism?
A black hole attracts everything around it and nothing, not even light, can get out of it. A white hole, on the other hand, is energy emission, explosion, light, and nothing can enter it. Yet, viewed from Earth, a white hole and a black hole look the same. Thus an adolescent who shapes his self through explosion, rebellion, and one who instead shuts himself or his room seen from adult eyes often look the same: “they are young.”…
Alcmena, in Plautus, is unable to distinguish her husband from the God because she does not go deep into his person, does not investigate the shared history and events. Again: even for her Amphitryon and Jupiter look the same. The self can only be known by going deep, but how do you do it? The meetings will investigate the construction of identity in today’s world, where contradictions are more explicit and extreme than ever, in search of ways to find ourselves, and to allow others to recognize us for who we are. White holes or black holes, rebels or hikikomori, Amphitryon or Jupiter. The ability to build bridges between differences, in order to foster inclusion on a substantive and non-formal level, and an open-mindedness capable of analyzing events from Plautus’ narrative structure and the juxtaposition of seemingly unapproachable realities, such as art and science, will be tested. Art is not in the art object, much less in some mysterious spiritual world: it is in the complexity of our brains, in the kaleidoscopic network of analogical relationships with which our neurons react to the object and weave what we call meaning. How does one live today in a West of peace in the midst of a world of war? Do activism but not know who to vote for? Having a spirituality but not believing in anything anymore? Wanting to change the world but not being able to get out of the bedroom? The production of new and effective meanings will happen together with the children, in the classroom, through storytelling and relationship building. Changing the order of things is not easy, but it is what art does at its best.
The meetings will be taught by Erica Nava.
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours To be agreed with faculty
(March 2025)		 school free max. 2 classes per meeting
post-show 1 hour March 27, 2025, at the end of the performance
March 28, 2025, at the end of the performance		 Social Theater free based on the availability of the theater
The tour concludes with a viewing of the play Anfitrione, staged on Thursday, March 27 (8:30 p.m.) and Friday, March 28 (10:30 a.m.) 2025 at the Social Theater.
Tickets € 11.00 | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW

IN-DEPTH PATHS

Project around the play La coscienza di Zeno
Prose Season – Donizetti Theater
THE PROPOSAL.
A path of reflection on some of the themes of the novel is proposed to the fifth classes of high schools, divided into three meetings held by Prof. Marco Pacati (former teacher of Italian and Latin and former Headmaster) and the director of the play Paolo Valerio (artistic director of the Stabile del Friuli-Venezia Giulia). Alternatively (or in addition), we give the opportunity to a limited number of classes to request an in-depth meeting carried out in class by the expert Lucia Limonta lasting 2 hours.
The first two lectures will focus on some key themes of the novel such as psychoanalysis, the game of fate in affective life, the figure of the inept, the “alternative” reflection on addictions (particularly to smoking), the father-son relationship in an “upside-down” perspective, the apocalypse as a palingenesis of humanity, etc. The reflection will be conducted in an interactive mode, involving students and their culture as much as possible, including through targeted interventions by the students themselves. Therefore, it is appropriate that the more traditionally cognitive aspect of the novel will be dealt with in class by the teachers, even adjusting the timing of the program where possible (the project will be completed by January 2025). Instead, the director’s talk will be aimed at presenting the performance and stage interpretation of the novel. The classroom meeting will be held by an actress who will accompany the children to the viewing of the play. Given the large number of requests received, with the desire to be able to satisfy all of them, we ask you to fill out the survey at this LINK, indicating in the first question the meetings you are interested in for your class(es) and in the next question give an order of preference to those chosen. Attendance to at least one of the proposed meetings is mandatory. The capacity for the various activities is limited; therefore we suggest (when possible) that you indicate several choices and give them an order of preference. That way if the first one is sold out, you can be diverted to the next ones.
In the notes instead, let us know if you are available for only one of the chosen activities or if you prefer however you are available for more activities (e.g., class meeting + meeting with the director).
Obviously, once the memberships are acquired, we will agree more punctually with teachers and students on the various stages of the project.

DURATION DATE PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
2 INTRODUCTIVE MEETINGS ON THE TEXT
by Marco Pacati		 1.5 hours per meeting To be determined
(January 2025)		 Donizetti Theater or at school depending on the number of accessions free based on availability
of the location
LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO: A DIRECTORY
edited by Paolo Valerio		 1.5 hours To be determined
(between January 13 and February 2, 2025)		 Donizetti Theater | Music Room free based on the availability
of the location
MEETING IN CLASS
edited by Lucia Limonta		 2 hours To be agreed with faculty
(January 2025)		 School free maximum 1 class per meeting
The course concludes with a viewing of the play La coscienza di Zeno, on stage from January 25 to February 2, 2025 at the Donizetti Theater.
Tickets from €9.00 to €19.00 depending on the sector chosen | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW

Project around the play The Trials realized in collaboration with Prof. Ivo Lizzola and Dr. Silvia Brena
Season of Altri Percorsi – Social Theater
THE PROJECT
Foreword
The question of generational rights, of the “right to the future,” of responsibility toward life and the planet are emerging in the last twenty years as a central issue in the relationship between generations.
Responsibility toward (and care for) the future of others is (should be) at the heart of political action, and of educational commitment. Also of relations between adults and young people, between parents and children.
A serious confrontation between different generations must succeed in finding places, languages and forms.
Which today are still uncertain and discontinuous. The younger generations must also be called back to their responsibilities: of creative beginnings, of careful criticism, of courage in choices. They must take on the legacy and not limit themselves to lament, not end up in abulia and narcissistic or merely oppositional adaptation.
Calling each other to account for choices, thoughts, dreams (and of interrupted memories, of courageous anticipations) can take on the theme of court and judgment, or that of a process, a path to be opened, through confrontations and even demanding conflicts. Generative and frank, “in truth,” not destructive, or liquidating.
The play, The Trials, very provocatively shows an extreme judgment call, and an outcome of hard splitting of the bond between generations. Splitting of time, of narrative, of life. Not choice: judgment; not imagination; erasure. What scholars call “the coalition of contemporaries “who irresponsibly and authoritatively steal the future and life from the biosphere and the unborn is condemned to pay and disappear!
First phase: putting into play and research
Starting from the students’ experiences and thoughts, a space for reflection-expression is proposed around the question of the environment, sustainability, poverty, around the new dimensions and forms of a responsibility to be expanded, anticipated; the question of justice between generations, the experiences of care, custody and cultivation of life and goods as gratitude and as an offer between communities and between generations; the logics of war, predatory economy, great inequality; the new technological power and the new ethical and political questions. Moments of reflection will be activated, and opportunities to meet and visit projects and experiences (local and transnational) active on some of these issues. On the environmental issue, the experiences that may be encountered (e.g., social gardens, GAS, energy communities…) will be planned in collaboration with the Distretto Economia Sociale Solidale Bergamasco.
Groups and classes will be able to work on the preparation:
1- of posters and documents, videos or artistic products of appeal on the major issues studied;
2- of positioning maps and tracing new and responsible paths on which to place personal biographies, shared projects, commitment in institutions.
Second phase: preparation for the show
The meeting with Ivo Lizzola and the director of the show Veronica Cruciani will be an opportunity to prepare for the show The viewing of the show will be a moment of confrontation, reflection and creative interaction on the question of the relationship with the adult generation, its power, the forms it gives to life, material cultures, knowledge and projects.
Phase Three: post-show
After watching the play (those who attend the school performance will have the opportunity for a time of discussion with the actors) there will be a time of discussion at school about what the play provoked and what can question us in our present.
It will then be proposed to teachers and adolescent boys who wish to do so to prepare for a meeting-confrontation (a “process”) with adults who hold roles of responsibility around the issues of the future, which have been the subject of in-depth study.
A number of Focus Groups will be activated with administrators, teachers, service workers, entrepreneurs, researchers, third sector representatives aimed at gathering and focusing on the traits of responsible paths to the future. Traits to be presented to adolescent girls and boys as an indication, and as a possible and serious responsibility for their present and future.
The “process” of generations about their relationship with the world and time and with the theme “cleaning the future,” will take place at the spaces of the Donizetti Theater. There will be two prosecutors to “arraign” and question the youth and adults (students and law professors) and a jury composed of three significant people who are experts on the three themes (environment, peace, justice) on which the “trial” is activated. To them the three concluding interventions, to define covenants, “restorative” or regenerative commitments, practices of truth.
The project is carried out with the scientific coordination of Ivo Lizzola, professor of Social Pedagogy of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Bergamo, and the collaboration of Dr. Silvia Brena, trainer.
Thepre-show meeting will be by Professor Ivo Lizzola and director Veronica Cruciani.
DURATION DATE PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
INTRODUCTORY MEETING 2 hours To be determined
(March 2025)		 in school free max 1 class per meeting
PRE-SHOW MEETING 2 hours To be determined
(second half of March/
early April 2025)		 to be determined free to be determined
CONFRONTATION MEETING
POST-SHOW		 2 hours To be determined
(April 2025)		 in school free max. 2 classes per meeting
COMBINED CLASS MEETING 3 hours To be determined
(April 2025)		 Donizetti Theater free all
EXIT INTO ANEXTERNAL REALITY half day To be determined
(April 2025)		 place in the vicinity of the school free max 2 classes per exit
The course concludes with a viewing of the play The Trials, staged on Thursday, April 3 (8:30 p.m.) and Friday, April 4 (10:30 a.m.), 2025 at the Social Theater.
Tickets € 11.00 | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW

Edited by Maria Grazia Panigada
Artistic director of the Season of Prose and Altri Percorsi.

Contributed by.