Flavio Stroppini directs Margherita Saltamacchia and Rocco Schira in a premiere stage adaptation for the first time in Italian - of Max Frisch’s most “Ticinese” work, perhaps the most fascinating Frisch ever wrote. 

Secluded in his hermitage in Val Onsernone, the protagonist of Max Frisch’s Man in the Holocene, Mr. Geiser, a seventy-four year old widower from Basel, seeks, in his memory and in books, weapons with which to resist time. He struggles against the torrential rain that has devastated nature outside his window, and against the inexorable decline of his own body and mind. At first he reads, cuts out excerpts, makes notes and tacks sheets on the walls. His daughter Corinne is the only person who can decipher the efforts of a man who is becoming increasingly fragile. Rummaging through the traces left by her father, she tries to recover his memories...
Like all classics this is a text that never stops asking questions about the present. The pandemic gave us an experience of solitude and taught us that we are more fragile than we thought we were. Today, Mr. Geiser’s words sound more relevant than ever. And like him, we have to reckon with something infinitely greater than ourselves.