Saturday 21 March

Sala 4

18:30

On the occasion of the performance Medea's Children, Professor Maddalena Giovannelli analyzes the career and poetics of Milo Rau, one of the most relevant and innovative directors on the contemporary theater scene.

Milo Rau is a Swiss theater director, playwright, essayist and theorist, considered one of the most influential figures in the contemporary European theater scene. He is known for his highly political and documentary works, which address complex issues such as genocide, conflict, social justice and human rights, often starting from real trials, testimonies and historical facts.
From 2018 to 2023 he was artistic director of NTGent (National Theater Ghent), where he introduced a "manifesto" for radically political, inclusive, and socially connected theater.

Within the 2025/26 season, Milo Rau is featured with the show Medea's Children.

Maddalena Giovannelli has been teaching Theatre History and Theatrical Communication at USI since 2020.
She was a temporary researcher at the University of Milan, where she taught "Ancient Greek Theatre Literature" and "Ancient Theatre on the Contemporary Scene." She was Principal Investigator of the FIR research project "Lexicon of Greek Comedy" (2014-2017), dedicated to the ancient and contemporary reception of the comic genre.
Her fields of interest are theatrical translation, ancient dramaturgy with a focus on the comedy of Aristophanes, reception of classical theater in the contemporary, and theater and dance audience education. He published the book Aristophanes our contemporary (Carocci 2018), and The Audience in Dance. Communities, Memories, Devices with Lorenzo Conti and Francesca Serrazanetti (Scalpendi 2019). He founded the six-monthly magazine Stratagemmi_theatrical perspectives and the cultural association "Prospettive Teatrali" within which he deals with audience training. He writes about theater in Hystrio and Doppiozero.