The award-winning Veronese company Babilonia Teatri returns to the LAC with Abracadabra, a show in which magic gives form to pain, expressing what words alone cannot convey.

To recount certain events in life, theatre alone may not suffice: a magical act is needed, a ritual capable of transforming the stage into a bridge between life and death, through sleight of hand and grand illusions.
Abracadabra is a magical, fairy-tale-like and arcane word, a spell that can make the invisible appear.
Babilonia Teatri brings to the stage a magic show that takes the audience by the hand and leads them into territories from which we often tend to flee, questioning how to come to terms with illness, whether and how we process grief, and whether the dead can speak.
On stage, a real magician acts as a conduit to the afterlife, allowing the unspeakable to be named and the impossible to be touched through the voice of Francesco Scimemi, a professional magician for thirty years, who, suspended between two worlds, evokes his late wife, traversing the realms of the tragic, the grotesque and the poetic.