La Falena is the theatre criticism magazine of Teatro Metastasio in Prato. It began in 2020, mid-pandemic, with the theatres shut and the squares empty: a printed magazine about theatre, at the exact moment there was no theatre. The name is a manifesto in itself — the moth changes shape and stays itself, a creature […]

Il Risveglio della Cicala is a theatre piece by Sofia Novello Gergen and Margherita Monti, born out of RISALAT, a letter-writing project between Palestine and Italy run by AMEL Italia: for ten months, people in Gaza, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian camps in Jordan and Lebanon wrote to Italians they had never met.The play […]

Golfo Mistico are a small band from Bologna, formed in 2013. Their songs come out of a late-night world of tavern tables and wine smoke, carried on blues rhythms and gypsy cadences. I started working with them ten years ago, when I signed the artwork for their first album, Quello che rimane, as Brochendors Brothers.For […]