54th International Theatre Festival 

The 54^th International Theatre Festival will be on stage from 7 to 21 June 2026. It will bring over 200 artists to Venice for 55 events, casting light on different alphabets, cultures and traditions, which do not faithfully reproduce themselves, but open new pathways, offering alternative ways of seeing and understanding the world.

 

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The programme includes: Christos Stergioglou and Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis from Greece with their concert-performance Cries; Satoshi Myiagi from Far East; the Bumi Purnati Indonesia company from Jakarta with an original form of dance, music and song that draws from a traditional complex of martial arts; the choreographer and dancer Sharmila Biswas from India with the Odissi dance, a performance art with a rigorous vocabulary, steeped in spirituality and refined eroticism; the Samoan artist Lemi Ponifasio, one of New Zealand’s major directors and choreographers; the writer, actor, dancer and director from Rwanda Dorcy Rugamba; the singer Angelique Kidjo in a duo concert with pianist Thierry Vaton; Davide Iodice with Promemoria, a work in which he addresses the theme of memory, focusing on the stories and lives of the elderly living in care facilities.

 

The Biennale Teatro 2026 Lions are Mario Banushi, Silver Lion, exponent of new Greek theatre, who will bring to the festival the trilogy that brought him instant fame, Romance familiare, and Emma Dante, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the most celebrated Italian director of theatre and opera who will present the world premiere of I fantasmi di Basile, taking on the visionary Baroque world of the Neapolitan writer Giambattista Basile.

 

A tribute to Bob Wilson will be on display in Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian for the entire duration of the festival, exhibiting materials collected and preserved at ASAC, the Historical Archive of the Contemporary Arts of La Biennale di Venezia.

 

The program may change.

 

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