Beyond the Project: Dialogue and Community Across Mantua

On June 28, 2025, Teatro Magro participated in the World Refugee Day celebration with a performance at the Diocesan Museum of Mantua, in collaboration with the LAN-DE-SI collective. The event featured an excerpt from “SPECIAL”, the theatre piece developed through the EX.TRE.M project. Presented in a space usually dedicated to contemplation and heritage, the performance became a symbolic act of recognition and visibility, giving voice to stories of migration, displacement, and resilience.

A few weeks later, on July 12, another performance took place in a very different setting — the Cittadella neighborhood festival, a vibrant and informal community event. Here, Teatro Magro and Hofer Association presented the outcome of a intensive summer workshop led by José Andrés Tarifa Pardo as part of the sub.ita project. The two workshop participants delivered a performance woven into the rhythms of the festival, as locals enjoyed food, music, and open-air relaxation. It was a small but meaningful act of artistic sharing, accessible to all and deeply rooted in the community.

While neither event was formally part of the EX.TRE.M project, both demonstrate how its core themes — representation, dialogue, and the transformative power of theatre — continue to echo in local contexts. From museum to neighborhood, from public memory to everyday encounters, these performances show how the project’s legacy extends beyond its formal boundaries. Theatre remains a living tool: not only for artistic expression, but for building community and imagining new forms of belonging.