Faced with the inexplicable, when every system of meaning falters, what do we choose to believe? Adapted from playwright Fabrizio Sinisi’s debut novel, *Il Prodigio*, directed by Giacomo Bisordi, the play takes the form of a contemporary apocalypse—in its original sense of revelation—that runs through the text like a book of visions: a sequence of images, collapses, and apparitions that herald the end of an order and the emergence of a new, still indecipherable world.
The Prodigy
Fabrizio Sinisi / Giacomo Bisordi
© Andrea Saltini
show in production
World Premiere
The Prodigy
Fabrizio Sinisi / Giacomo Bisordi
© Andrea Saltini
show in production
World Premiere
A face appears in the sky above a major Italian city. A face with rough, almost childlike features, as if drawn by an inexperienced hand. At first, it is an anomaly, a phenomenon to be observed with curiosity. But the face does not fade away. It remains. It asserts itself. And soon it ceases to be merely an image, becoming a tangible and constant presence.
The community gathers around this apparition, feverishly trying to interpret it. Inexplicable events occur—healings, signs that defy all logic. The mystery deepens: is it a projection, a deception, or a manifestation of God?
At the center of this upheaval of reality stands Don Luca, a media-savvy priest, a public figure more accustomed to talking about faith than practicing it. At his side is Marta, enigmatic and elusive, a living yet elusive presence, the object of a love that undermines every certainty. Unable to provide answers, Don Luca sees the last fragile balance of his own faith begin to crack, while Folker emerges on the scene—a magnetic and charismatic prophet capable of channeling the collective need to believe and guiding it toward a new, unsettling form of spirituality.
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