Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Michele Perriera was a journalist, playwright, writer, director, co-founder of the school of Teatro Teatés and of Gruppo 63. In Palermo, ten years after his death, an initiative is being led by a group of his followers who is trying to organize a theatrical event to commemorate him.

In the meantime, in Turin, on the radio a debate is taking place about his works and a company of actors is rehearsing in a local theatre his Buon Appetito, a work based on a dystopian future filled with viruses. Suddenly all the theatrical shows are postponed for an indefinite period due to the pandemic.

The prophecy contained in Perriera’s text is equalled by reality and all the efforts by protagonists will have to face the limitations which the author had long ago imagined as they dramatically come true. The fear of oblivion is the product of a situation very much alike to the one Perriera had conceived. Can Theatre survive itself now?