We are hypersensitive.
The same tensions as Antigone, Medea, King Lear run through us.We recognize them from Samuel Beckett to Sarah Kane, all the way to the contemporary dramaturgies that animate our arena.
Our nerves are raw: we inhabit shared areas of fragility, helplessness and a longing for meaning.
In this condition, we acknowledge the constant risk of turning pain into paralysis, cynicism or sterile resentment.
Venice Open Stage 2026 is a festival about the transfiguration of pain into a performative act.
Theatre does not offer solutions: it opens up different sensibilities that, starting from shared tensions, seek forms of resistance, listening and action.
Our nerves are raw
Il teatro logora chi non ci va
You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
(Samuel Beckett)
Pre-serata
La nuvola in calzoni – Storia di un essere umano
10/07/2026
20:00
Venice Open Stage
