Saturday 16 May, 21:00 – LA DISTANCE – Piccolo Teatro, Milan

LA DISTANCE

Tiago Rodrigues

Production of Festival d’Avignon 2025

Following its huge success in Avignon, LA DISTANCE by Portuguese author and theatre director TIAGO RODRIGUEZ is embarking on a tour across Europe and will be coming to Milan.

In 2077, the people of Earth live in the grip of economic precariousness and climate change. In this world in turmoil, Tiago Rodrigues questions the possibility of communication between a father and his daughter, who left Earth to go live on Mars. 

2077. While humanity struggles to survive, plagued by economic precariousness and the consequences of climate change, part of the population lives in exile on Mars. Back on Earth, a father strives to maintain a relationship with his daughter who has gone to the Red Planet. La Distance is a miniature lost in the vastness of the cosmos. Through this dystopian yet not-improbable scenario, Tiago Rodrigues explores the consequences of our choices as much as the possibility of communication between generations. The artist sets two worlds face to face and imagines their dialogue in orbit as a series of very, very, very long-distance calls. He is joined for the occasion by actors Adama Diop and Alison Dechamps in an interplanetary setup in rotation, like two celestial bodies stuck in their respective orbits, alternatively coming closer and drifting apart.

Performance in French, with Italian surtitles by Chiara Elefante and English surtitles by Daniel Hahn.

Cost (members ACE):

Full: 35€

Reduced (under25/over65): 25 €

including ticket (all seats in “balconata”) and transport to and from Milan by bus, departure JRC Ispra h. 18:00

Please book by 24/02/2026