Award Ceremony and Closing Night
Reading of Via Crucis by playwright Marco Di Stefano as the winner of their 2026 In Scena! Playwright Award (formally the Mario Fratti Award). The play is translated by Caterina Nonis.
VIA CRUCIS is a solo show in free verse structured in 14 scenes. The speaking character is a 30-year-old man living on the margins. Arrested for drug possession, he is subjected to torture and violence by the police until he dies from it. The text unfolds over the course of a single day—from 5AM until midnight—and is set in various locations: the street where the young man is taken, the police car, the different rooms of the police station, and finally the morgue where the autopsy takes place.
The play is inspired by the stories of Italian young people who died in custody (Federico Aldrovandi, Giuseppe Uva, Stefano Cucchi).
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