With Oltre, Fabiana Iacozzilli returns to the Romaeuropa Festival to tell a story of survival and transformation. Written by Linda Dalisi, the play is inspired by the 1972 Andes plane crash: sixteen young men fighting against the cold, hunger, and death. Their most extreme act—feeding on their lost companions—becomes sacred, a communion between the living and the dead. Rugby, a game of intertwined bodies, becomes a symbol of resistance: in the scrum, one holds on and pushes forward together. In the snow, the broken fuselage is both womb and tomb, refuge and prison. Paola Villani’s puppets turn suffering into vision: bodies that wither, fracture, merge into one another. Oltre is not a story of catastrophe but of rebirth. Of what remains, of what keeps us alive. And of memory, which refuses to let the dead disappear.
Fabiana Iacozzilli: Director and playwright, she explores stage dramaturgy and the expressive potential of the performer. Since 2013, she has collaborated with Teatro Vascello, and since 2017 with Cranpi and Carrozzerie N.O.T . She has been a member of the LINCOLN CENTER DIRECTORS LAB/Metropolitan N.Y. since 2011. Her works include Aspettando Nil, winner of New York’s Undergroundzero Festival; La trilogia dell’attesa, awarded at the Play Festival (Atir and Piccolo Teatro di Milano-Teatro d’Europa); La classe, which premiered at Romaeuropa Festival 2018, won the In-Box Prize 2019, the ANCT Critics’ Award 2019, and received four UBU nominations (including Best Sound Design, won by H. Westkemper). Una cosa enorme debuted at Biennale Teatro 2020 and was staged at REF2021. In 2023, she premiered En Abyme at the Venice Biennale and Il grande vuoto at REF2023, concluding La trilogia del vento. She is also engaged in theater pedagogy and projects using theater as a tool for cultural interaction. In 2021, she directed Abitare il ritorno, a community theater project by Asinitas within INCROCI, an initiative fostering theater as a means of cultural exchange, and contributed to Literacy Act, an international program for theatrical practice exchange. In 2023, in collaboration with Cranpi and Villa Pia-Italian Hospital Group, she co-directed Piccole donne—a theater workshop for young women with eating disorders, inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s novel.
direction Fabiana Iacozzilli
with Andrei Balan, Francesco Meloni, Marta Meneghetti, Giselda Ranieri, Evelina Rosselli, Isacco Venturini, Simone Zambelli
dramaturg Linda Dalisi
scenes Paola Villani
music and sound Franco Visioli
lighting Raffaella Vitiello
animation care Michela Aiello
assistant director Cesare Del Beato
volunteer assistant directors Matilde Re and Francesco Savino
production Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
in co-production with Cranpi, La Fabbrica dell’Attore – Teatro Vascello
with the support and national debut Romaeuropa Festival
with the support of the Centro di Residenza dell’Emilia-Romagna L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
with the contribution of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montevideo
a thank you to Fivizzano27
