Modern "monsters"

Two "monsters" from Gothic literature who embody the fears and obsessions of modern man and reflect on the dark side of civilization are the protagonists of the theater season that has just opened.
Andrea De Rosa, director and director of the TPE, has chosen to tackle the character born from popular legends and Bram Stoker's imagination, Dracula: a true myth of the modern age, who has become the symbol of an immortality experienced as a condemnation.
His story, reworked by Fabrizio Sinisi, evokes the very contemporary dream of a body that could become immortal through technological advances.
The show will make its national premiere at the Teatro Astra in Turin from November 11th to 30th.

The Motus company, meanwhile, presents Frankenstein_diptych: a two-part project dedicated to the figure created by Mary Shelley.
The first chapter, "Love Story," draws on the solitude of the writer and her creatures to explore the boundary between human and non-human; While in A History of Hate, he explores that emotional entanglement in which love unexpectedly turns to hate, benevolence to violence, and creatures, unheard and isolated, become monsters.

The diptych, which will be performed at the Turin Hills Festival in early November, will be on tour in Italy.

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Simona Carrera
NP November 2025