Returning to the Romaeuropa Festival, Romeo Castellucci brings back to the stage, together with Societas, one of the most incandescent cores of Western thought. A defining figure of the European performing arts scene, Castellucci continues to push theatre beyond narrative and representation, transforming it into a space of vision, matter, and inquiry.
In Faust, he removes the myth from its literary foundations and turns it into an extreme theatrical experience: not a reinterpretation of the text, but a journey through its vertiginous depths. Moving between shadow, skin, and apparition, the performance explores the figure of the artist as an exposed body, a place where condemnation and redemption ultimately converge.
The result is an essential yet immensely powerful work, in which Castellucci’s formal language opens up an alternative space, suspended between reality and imagination, between image and wound.
Romeo Castellucci (Cesena, Italy, 1960) is internationally recognized for having created a theatre rooted in the totality of the arts and oriented toward an integral perception of the work. His theatre proposes a dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, turning his stage practice into a complex art form; a theatre made of images of extraordinary richness, expressed through a language as universally accessible as music, sculpture, painting, or architecture. His productions are regularly commissioned and presented by the most prestigious international theatres, festivals, and opera houses, in over sixty countries across all continents.
Throughout his career, he has received major awards and recognitions.
In March 2024 he premiered Bérénice, a monologue freely adapted from Jean Racine, starring Isabelle Huppert. In 2025 he debuted at the Venice Biennale with I mangiatori di patate, a performance staged on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, and in Geneva with a version of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, performed by Barbara Hannigan and Jakub Józef Orli?ski. In 2026 he will present his first work at Teatro alla Scala in Milan with Pelléas et Mélisande, and return to the Salzburg Festival with Saint François d’Assise, while his new theatrical creation is scheduled for autumn 2026.
conception and direction Romeo Castellucci
original music Scott Gibbons
cast to be defined
dramaturgy Piersandra Di Matteo
assistant director Silvano Voltolina
technical direction Eugenio Resta
stage technician Andrei Benchea
lighting technician Andrea Sanson
sound technician Claudio Tortorici
costume designer Chiara Venturini
stage sculptures and automations Plastikart Studio Amoroso & Zimmermann
production director Benedetta Briglia
production and touring Giulia Colla
organisation Caterina Soranzo
in-house technical team Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini, Dario Neri
administration Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
economic consultancy Massimiliano Coli
images Anna Paola Guerra, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto
portrait Francesco Raffaelli
production Societas
co-produced by Cité européenne du théâtre Domaine d’O, Montpellier; Romaeuropa Festival; Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe – Paris; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Temporada Alta – Girona; Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale; ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro / Teatro Nazionale; Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne; DESINGEL International Arts Centre; FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts Festival; LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura; Onassis Stegi; Holland Festival Amsterdam; Teatro della Toscana; National Taichung Theater; and other co-producers to be confirmed.
