It’s one of the city’s most important theatres, and with its slogan “the theatre of wonder”, it invites you to discover its innovative cultural calendar for the 2025 season.
Located in Via Cantarane 32, in the centre of Verona a few steps from Porta Vescovo, the Camploy Theatre is a cultural institution of Verona, a city that breathes history and art from every pore of its buildings. It is an emblematic theatre for many reasons, but two in particular are ones that seem most interesting to us: the interior structure and its programming. Outside, the theatre looks like a church (it was in fact created from a deconsecrated church), while inside it has two adjacent stages on which in addition to theatre and dance festivals, small independent companies from all over the world stage their shows. The programming of this splendid theatre is richer and more varied every year, attentive to creating space for current issues and new emerging realities.
The Camploy Theatre is part of the historical memory of Verona; today a cultural centre, it originated as the Church of S. Francesco D’Assisi, and then first housed the College of Artigianelli and a night school later. The name is that of the donor to the Municipality of Verona, Giuseppe Camploy (1794 – 1890).
Several important events are presented throughout the year within the Camploy Theatre; some are organized by the Municipality of Verona, such as the Verona Passion Theatre festival, which for six months presents over 20 shows by amateur companies from Verona, or the Giorgio Totola Prize, biennial review designed to promote contemporary Italian authors and dedicated to the great Italian author devoted to the search for new theatrical languages.
The highlight is the L’ALTRO TEATRO (The Other Theatre) season, which brings to Verona the best of the country’s theatre scene and its most innovative dance companies. The programme for the 2024-2025 edition includes 14 events with new expressions of performing arts, such as Sotterraneo, Motus, Carrozzeria Orfeo, Babilonia Teatri, Ascanio Celestini, Caterina Guzzanti and Silvia Gribaudi.
The programme, created by the Municipality of Verona’s Department for Culture in collaboration with the Arteven Multidisciplinary Circuit, from this year is now fortunate to receive the valued support of Volotea, promoting culture to accompany all activities at Camploy.
Wonder as an underlying theme
THE THEATRE OF WONDER is the slogan chosen for the 24/25 Season of VERONA ALTRO TEATRO and perfectly captures the common thread that links the 14 works selected, offering audiences a unique experience of understanding and transformation, of looking and listening, of travel and freedom. An experience that runs through four specific strands identified by the art direction: on the one hand CULT companies from the contemporary Italian scene, capable of subverting codes and conventions; on the other the presence of PROTAGONISTS who are popular with the general public; then dance that leans towards WOMEN, in terms of its themes and protagonists; and the NEW FORMS of staging presented by two of the more unconventional emerging voices on the national scene.
Wonder arouses our curiosity, allows us to step into territories unlike those we’re used to. Wonder takes us to a crossroads: we can turn back in fear or we can open ourselves up to explore the unknown. Through L’Altro Teatro we can enrich our everyday lives by adopting a different view of the world: words, actions and images come together perfectly to take us out of the ordinary.
L’ALTRO TEATRO 2024-2025 PROGRAMME
The season opens with the Tuscan collective Sotterraneo which, on the back of the support received last year, returns to Verona with OVERLOAD. The performance, symbolising the group’s artistic philosophy and winner of an UBU award in 2018, stages the American writer David Foster Wallace giving a speech that takes on the form of a layered hypertext, which diverts and changes the perspective of the audience’s view. Also drawing from literature is Motus, the most international of the Italian artistic research companies, founded by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande. Their FRANKENSTEIN takes inspiration from the work of the same name by Mary Shelley but then moves away from it, turning into a reflection of the figure of the monster from a perspective that considers the metaphor of non-conformity as possibility rather than limitation. Muta Imago also present their own interpretation of a classic, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, in an intriguing and visually powerful work, TRE SORELLE. An esoteric performance that relives the past through exorcism and possession, to understand how to free oneself from what was by opening oneself up finally to the future.
The other three cult groups, meanwhile, lean towards contemporary dramas, at times psychedelic, exploring new themes that are highly relevant today, such as the dependence on things and substances on the part of those who have too much, the so-called nouveau riche, (Carrozzeria Orfeo in SALVEREMO IL MONDO PRIMA DELL’ALBA, or ‘We’ll Save The World Before Dawn’); the ritual relationship between magic and death, in a performance where a real magician marvels the audience with unusual tricks (Babilonia Teatri in ABRACADABRA); and then the haters, protagonists of a layered work born out of an obsession: that of understanding who is hiding behind these flashes of fierce hatred (Kepler 452 in GLI ALTRI, or ‘The Others’).
As well as film, television, theatre and new dramas, the season is enhanced by two celebrated artists. Firstly, Ascanio Celestini narrates the life of Saint Francis as it would be now, imagining how the saint would be experiencing poverty in the Italy of today and whom he would choose as a travel companion, to not simply be poor but to be a servant of the poor (RUMBA); secondly, Caterina Guzzanti explores the theme of male sexual impotence, with all its implications relating to women’s self-esteem and the possibility of maintaining a loving relationship (SECONDO LEI, or ‘According to Her’).
Women are also the focus of the programme of dance featuring four artists. Laura Corradi through Ersiliadanza tells how in life we often need to have UN BEL CORAGGIO (a lot of nerve); Valentina Dal Mas in LUISA (winner of the Scenario Periferie award 2023) tackles the issue of old age and marginalisation, whilst Silvia Gribaudi and Camilla Monga explore three legends of the 20th century, the dancer Isadora Duncan, the actress Eleonora Duse and the spy Mata Hari, in two multidisciplinary projects that look at these women, the first featuring the actress Marta Dalla Via (THE DOOZIES), and the second featuring musicians Marta Del Grandi and Federica Furlani and illustrator Cecilia Valagussa (MATA HARI).
The last two works, meanwhile, interpret perfectly the new horizons of Italy’s multidisciplinary theatre scene. With music, rap, poetry and image theatre, Compagnia Usine Baug and Mezzopalco present ANSE (Forever Young Award 2024) a portrait of modern loneliness that breaks down the boundaries of genre, with a concert that is not a concert, a play that is not a play, a poetry performance that is not a poetry performance, to create a hybrid that is all three together. Lastly, Nicolò Sordo, an actor and playwright from Verona and winner of numerous national awards, brings to the stage of Teatro Camploy his blunt and harrowing work PERFECT DAYS (a MaturAzione selection at the Teatro Stabile del Veneto) that deals with compulsive gambling, a contemporary disorder that is far too common.
Volotea in support of culture and experimentation
“Volotea has always supported the local social and economic fabric, also through collaborations with bodies dedicated to the world of culture” says Valeria Rebasti, International Market Director of Volotea. “That’s why becoming a sponsor of Teatro Camploy, one of Verona’s cultural institutions, means that we can create a special relationship with the theatre world. Also thanks to our contribution, the vast audience of Camploy can enjoy the new theatre season and, in particular, the L’Altro Teatro festival. This collaboration shows once again Volotea’s strong commitment to the local area, not only with our range of flights available from Valerio Catullo airport, but also with our active involvement in the cultural life of Verona, which has always played a key role in our activities: we have one of our operational headquarters here and over these 12 years of activity we’ve continued to grow. Volotea operates as many as 18 routes out of Verona, 9 within Italy and 9 to other countries”.
Information and tickets
You can find the full programme for the Season on the website Sistema Teatrale Veronese and on the Municipality of Verona website.
If you already have a season ticket, you can renew it with the right of first refusal from 10 to 25 October; season tickets will be on sale to everyone else from 10 October until 22 November.
Tickets for individual performances can be purchased from 28 October.
Where to buy season tickets and individual tickets for L’Altro Teatro
- In person from Box Office Verona – via Pallone 16 – tel. 045 80 11 154.
- Online via: https://www.boxol.it/boxofficelive/en, https://www.boxofficelive.it/index.cfm/en/home/ and www.arteven.it.
- From the box office at Teatro Camploy on the evening of the performance, from 8pm.
