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.
Following the performance on 16 October, a conversation with Romeo Castellucci will take place on the occasion of the Italian premiere of Faust. Fatto, non detto, as part of Romaeuropa Festival’s series of encounters between artists and audiences, in collaboration with Rai Radio 3 and curated by Lorenzo Pavolini.
An opportunity to delve into the heart of the performance, explore its creative processes and meet its creator in person.
Romeo Castellucci is internationally renowned for creating a form of theatre grounded in the totality of the arts and aimed at engaging the audience’s full perceptual experience. His work proposes a dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, transforming theatre into a complex art form. His productions are regularly presented by some of the world’s most prestigious international theatres, festivals and opera houses, in over sixty countries across all continents.
Scott Gibbons is an American composer and a seminal figure in dark ambient and micromusic. For over thirty years, he has explored the relationships between matter, sound and technology. His electroacoustic research investigates the hidden frequencies of natural and artificial elements. Since 1998, he has collaborated with Romeo Castellucci and Societas, composing music for Tragedia Endogonidia and The Divine Comedy. The author of over thirty albums, he has also created sound compositions and performances for Groupe F, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Eiffel Tower.
FAUST
Done, Not Said
by Romeo Castellucci
Concept and Direction: Romeo Castellucci
Music: Scott Gibbons
With: Gérard Bayle, Stefania Horodeyska, Lorenzo Coletta
And with: Fabrizio Facchini, Francesco Marioni, Lavinia Grippa, Massimo Di Loreto, Michele Traverso, Sara Valenti, Claudia Cerulo e Uma
Homage to Ryszard Cieslak
Dramaturg: Piersandra Di Matteo
Assistant Director: Silvano Voltolina
Technical Direction: Eugenio Resta
Stage Technicians: Andrei Benchea, Stefano Valandro
Lighting Technician: Andrea Sanson
Sound Technician: Claudio Tortorici
Costume Designer: Chiara Venturini
Stage Sculptures and Automation: Plastikart Studio
3D Modelling and Printing: Filippo Zimmermann
Production Manager: Benedetta Briglia
Production and Touring: Giulia Colla
Organisation: Caterina Soranzo
Production Assistant Intern: Alessia Grillo
Rehearsal Collaboration: Michel Mathieu
Technical Crew at the Venue: Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini, Assunta La Corte, Dario Neri
Administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
Financial Consultancy: Massimiliano Coli
Production Manager: Benedetta Briglia
Production and Touring: Giulia Colla
Organisation: Caterina Soranzo
Production Assistant Intern: Alessia Grillo
Rehearsal Collaboration: Michel Mathieu
Technical Crew at the Venue: Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini, Assunta La Corte, Dario Neri
Administration: Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci
Financial Consultancy: Massimiliano Coli
Special thanks to the Jerzy Grotowski Institute.
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/Salt); 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; Teatro Calderón de Valladolid; Berliner Festspiele; Holland Festival Amsterdam; Teatro Nacional São João – Porto; Teatro della Toscana; National Taichung Theater, Taiwan; Adelaide Festival.
Photos © Alex Majoli



