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In Greece, during the period of the tragic dramatists, in the fifth century BC, they were inventing democracy through Theatre. Sorj Chalandon, with the characters of The Fourth Wall breathes new breath of life into the classics by taking Antigone through the war-torn streets of Beirut in the early 1980s. Democracy, as the Ancient Greeks knew, is a delicate plant, not something that needs to be nurtured, like peace.
How to devise an effective arms reduction plan? How to let go of the idea of justice superimposed on revenge? We have three possibilities: talking, praying, singing…

Roberto Tarasco
He is a music expert, director, light designer, scriptwriter, he works permanently as a producer in the shows and events put on by Gabriele Vacis. He has promoted and directed stage plays, musical events, seasons, festivals, radio and television broadcasts, ceremonies and major events. He was the founder and organizational director of the Seventh Theatre Workshop. From 2001 to 2011, he helped devise and develop the Festival Torino Spiritualità and Turin’s Readers’ Circle. Since 2014, he has been the Artistic Director of the Teatro Sociale of Valenza. In 2017, he devised the Drama Therapy Programme and in 2018 the Bella Presenza Educational Project for fighting educational disadvantage amongst children.

Lorenzo Tombesi
He graduated from Turin’s Actors’ School. With other people from the Academy, he founded the PoEM (Potenziali Evocati Multimediali Impresa Sociale) theatre company and is its Vice Chair. He provided the dramatic composition of the Old Testament directed by Gabriele Vacis. Other works in which he was involved include Seven against Thebes, Antigone and her brothers, Prometheus, and Spring Awakening, which were also directed by Gabriele Vacis. Fuorigioco is the first piece that he has not only written but also directed and acted in. Together with Fabio Pronestì, he put on the I wonder if this may be held performance in London. He has run different theatre workshops in schools and prisons.

Edoardo Roti
He was born in Genoa, and after gaining his Liceo Classico high-school diploma (high-school diploma focusing on the Classics), he attended the Actors’ School run by Gabriele Vacis at Turin’s Teatro Stabile. Since 2021 he has been a partner of the theatre company PoEM Potenziali Evocati Multimediali. He has worked has an actor in different theatre projects directed by  Gabriele Vacis, Serena Sinigaglia, Gianni Bissaca, and Fiammetta Bellone. In 2025 he started a musical project with Cosimo Bicci.

Letizia Russo
She was born in Rome, and after gaining her Liceo Classico high-school diploma (high-school diploma focusing on the Classics), she attended the Actors’ School run by Gabriele Vacis at Turin’s Teatro Stabile. She acted in different theatre projects directed by Gabriele Vacis, Valerio Binasco, Girolamo Lucania, and Micol Jalla. In 2021 she acted in the television film Letizia Battaglia, solo per passione by Roberto Andò and in 2023 in Il Clandestino, a television series directed by Rolando Ravello. In 2024 she was directed by Niccoló Buttigliero in Orione. Dialogo sulla creazione tra serial silence-killer. In 2025 she was part of the cast of Hans Clemer, a documentary by Fredo Valla.