Eight hundred years after the death of Saint Francis and on the 100th anniversary of Dario Fo's birth, Matthias Martelli has accepted the challenge of revisiting the Nobel Prize winner's work and telling the story of the Poor Man of Assisi and his subversive message. Martelli offers audiences a portrait of a contemporary Francis—mad, necessary, and luminously unconventional. The result is a multi-voiced monologue, a teeming mosaic of bodies and characters, ranging from the comical to the poetic, from the grotesque to the melancholic, without ever losing sight of cutting irony and laughter. The show arrives in Turin after a long world tour, which, along with Mistero Buffo, has taken Martelli and the Teatro Stabile di Torino to five continents.

Matthias Martelli

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Oct 4 - Nov 1, 2026

Holy Monday Francis · Teatro Stabile Torino

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