{"id":6970,"date":"2026-10-05T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/?post_type=event&p=6970"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:41:59","slug":"le-principesse-by-olga-bach-directed-by-ersan-mondtag","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/pt-pt\/event\/le-principesse-by-olga-bach-directed-by-ersan-mondtag\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Principesse by Olga Bach \u2014 directed by Ersan Mondtag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Principesse<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

by Olga Bach \u2014 directed by Ersan Mondtag<\/strong>
\nWorld premiere: 13 November 2026<\/strong>
\nTeatro Garibaldi, Palermo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Venue:<\/strong> Teatro Garibaldi, Piazza Magione \u2014 Palermo<\/p>\n

Curated by:<\/strong> Fondazione Studio Rizoma<\/p>\n

Direction:<\/strong> Ersan Mondtag<\/p>\n

Dramaturgy:<\/strong> Olga Bach<\/p>\n

Cast:<\/strong> Frank B\u00fcttner, Maziar Firouzi, Ruth Kemna and Vittoria Salamone<\/p>\n

Set design:<\/strong> Simone Mannino<\/p>\n

Composition:<\/strong> Beni Brachtel<\/p>\n

Live music (viola)<\/strong>: Ruth Kemna Assistant director: Pierpaolo Arata<\/p>\n

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Four Princesses inhabit an abandoned theatre.<\/p>\n

On 13 November 2026, Le Principesse<\/em> by Olga Bach, directed by Ersan Mondtag, will inaugurate the reopening of Teatro Garibaldi in Palermo.<\/strong> This world premiere draws on the theatre\u2019s own history and Shakespearean heritage to explore the present through a reflection on power, democracy and responsibility.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, Teatro Garibaldi hosted Carlo Cecchi\u2019s legendary Shakespeare trilogy:<\/strong> a theatre stripped of ornament, direct and conversational, yet no less powerful. Le Principesse<\/em> takes up this legacy and brings it into the present, placing Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet<\/em> in dialogue with Machiavelli\u2019s The Prince<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the death of Princess Vittoria, her heir Maziar begins to question the circumstances of her death and suspects Frank, her closest collaborator. Like Hamlet confronting Claudius, he searches for a truth that continues to elude him. The dead Princess returns as a ghost, while the roles of victim and perpetrator continually overlap and shift.<\/p>\n

Through a narrative that intertwines the Renaissance, Fascism and the present day, the play poses an urgent question: how can a democracy exercise power without adopting the methods of its enemies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamlet\u2019s doubt thus encounters Machiavelli\u2019s political pragmatism. At a time marked by the return of right-wing populism, imperial ambitions and war, Le Principesse<\/em> reflects on the fragility of the democratic order and on the tension between the ideals of a society and the need to act in times of crisis.<\/p>\n

Featuring an Italian-German cast and deeply connected to the history of Teatro Garibaldi, Le Principesse<\/em> also opens a new chapter in the theatre\u2019s life: a place capable of bringing Palermo into dialogue with Europe and the Mediterranean, memory into dialogue with the present, and the local scene into conversation with the international one.<\/p>\n

An abandoned theatre thus becomes a place in which to question power, its legacy, and what remains when those who wield it are gone.<\/p>\n

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