@ Teatro Out Off, Milan
From October 3 to 30, Teatro Out Off is once again hosting the Fabre Festival. This second edition bears the significant title Jan Fabre and Mino Bertoldo: 40 Years of the Poetry of Resistance, celebrating not only four decades of collaboration between Jan Fabre and Teatro Out Off, under the direction of Mino Bertoldo, but also a long-standing friendship and artistic partnership that began in 1985. The encounter between Fabre and Bertoldo dates back to that year, during the Sussurri o grida festival, conceived and curated by Bertoldo himself. It was on this occasion that the young Jan Fabre was invited to present his groundbreaking performance The Power of Theatrical Madness at the Teatro Nazionale in Milan. At the time, Out Off was a nomadic theatre company without a permanent venue. In 1987, Fabre was invited back to Milan to perform at Spazio Krizia as part of the Theatre and Communication symposium, again organized by Bertoldo on the occasion of the David Campbell-Harris award — a moment of reflection on the meaning and purpose of theatre. Their profound friendship remained intact over the years. In 2004, Fabre inaugurated the new Out Off venue on Via Mac Mahon with the performance The Crying Body. Twenty years later, in 2023, he returned to Out Off with the Italian premiere of Peak Mytikas (On the Top of Mount Olympus), an ambitious, eight-hour-long performance. That same November, Teatro Out Off also hosted the first Milan-based workshop of the Jan Fabre Teaching Group. In 2024, the theatre's 49th season opened with a new edition of the Fabre Festival, entitled Love and Beauty Are the Powers Supreme. This edition featured five new productions by the Troubleyn/Jan Fabre company, all written and directed by Fabre himself. Among them were two world premieres, Io sono un errore performed by Irene Urciuoli, and I’m sorry featuring Stella Höttler, along with three Italian premieres.
The Fabre Festival returns this October with a new program running from the 3rd to the 30th October. The edition opens with two world premieres: La poésie de la résistance, on October 3, 4, and 8 and performed by Annabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron; and A Tribe, That’s is me, performed by Irene Urciuoli on October 10, 11, and 22. Also returning to the stage are two works that had their Italian premieres at last year’s festival: I Believe in the Legend of Love, with Ivana Jozić, on October 17 and 18, and Io sono un errore, again with Irene Urciuoli, on October 24 and 25. Rounding out the program are two performances based on Fabre’s texts. On October 14 and 15, The King of Plagiarism will be presented, adapted, directed, and performed by Roberto Trifirò, in a new 2025 production by Teatro Out Off. On October 29 and 30, Giornale Notturno (1978–2012) will be performed by Carolina Migli Bateson, directed by Edoardo Callegari and Bateson herself.
As in previous editions, the festival will also feature two Jan Fabre Teaching Group masterclasses. The first, from September 30 to October 8, will be led by Annabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron; the second, from October 20 to 28, will be conducted by Irene Urciuoli.
| Tuesday 30 September - Wednesday 8 October JAN FABRE TEACHING GROUP - 5 Day Masterclass with teachers Annabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron. |
| Friday 3 October 20:00 WORLD PREMIERE - LA POÉSIE DE LA RÉSISTANCE with Cédric Charron and Annabelle Chambon |
| Saturday 4 October 20:00 LA POÉSIE DE LA RÉSISTANCE with Cédric Charron and Annabelle Chambon |
| Tuesday 7 October 20:30 AVANT-PREMIERE - UNA TRIBÙ, ECCO QUELLO CHE SONO with Irene Urciuoli at the Visconti Theater, Grazzano Visconti* |
| Wednesday 8 October 20:00 LA POÉSIE DE LA RÉSISTANCE with Cédric Charron and Annabelle Chambon |
| Friday 10 October 20:00 WORLD PREMIERE - UNA TRIBÙ, ECCO QUELLO CHE SONO with Irene Urciuoli |
| Saturday 11 October 20:00 UNA TRIBÙ, ECCO QUELLO CHE SONO with Irene Urciuoli |
| Tuesday 14 October 20:00 IL RE DEL PLAGIO with Roberto Trifiro |
| Wednesday 15 October 20:00 IL RE DEL PLAGIO with Roberto Trifiro |
| Friday 17 October 20:00 I BELIEVE IN THE LEGEND OF LOVE with Ivana Jozic |
| Saturday 18 October 20:00 I BELIEVE IN THE LEGEND OF LOVE with Ivana Jozic |
| Monday 20 October - Tuesday 28 October JAN FABRE TEACHING GROUP - 5 day masterclass with Irene Urciuoli |
| Wednesday 22 October 20:00 UNA TRIBÙ, ECCO QUELLO CHE SONO with Irene Urciuoli |
| Friday 24 October 20:00 IO SONO UN ERRORE with Irene Urciuoli |
| Saturday 25 October 20:00 IO SONO UN ERRORE with Irene Urciuoli |
| Wednesday 29 October 20:00 GIORNALE NOTTURNO (1972-2012) with Carolina Migli Bateson |
| Thursday 30 October 20:00 GIORNALE NOTTURNO (1972-2012) with Carolina Migli Bateson |
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS:
Teatro OUT OFF
via Mac Mahon 16, Milano
T. 0234532140
biglietteriaoutoff@gmail.com
Ticket office open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 4:30 pm.
Tickets can be collected from the offices in Via Principe Eugenio 22, Monday to Friday from 11 am to 1 pm.
Tickets can be collected at the box office in Via Mac Mahon 16, from Wednesday to Sunday one hour before the show.
Show times: 8 pm
Prices: Full 25€ | Reduction Under 26 17,5€ | Reduction Over 65 12,5€
Public transport: M5 Cenisio stop; tram 14; tramp 12; bus 78
LA POÉSIE DE LA RÉSISTANCE
with Annabelle Chambon & Cédric Charron
La poésie de la résistance / The Poetry of Resistance is a powerful, engaged theater text, written by Jan Fabre in 2024, that celebrates the strength of art, poetry, and resistance against oppression. In a poetic and rhythmic manifesto, two performers present themselves as members of an artistic resistance movement, fighting non-violently against censorship, suppression, and conformity.... [READ MORE]
"Créer, c'est résister. Résister c'est créer” - Stéphane Hessel, Indignez-vous!
Duration: 1h
French spoken | Italian surtitles
UNA TRIBÙ, ECCO QUELLO CHE SONO
With Irene Urciuoli
A tribe, that's is me (2004) is Jan Fabre's poetic perspective on the work of theater visionary Antonin Artaud, the “founder” of the Théâtre de la Cruauté (1938). This cruelty is not physical, but spiritual: an invitation to return to raw, unfiltered truth... [READ MORE]
“La vraie révolution sera mentale ou ne sera pas.” - Antonin Artaud
Duration: 1h
Italian spoken
IL RE DEL PLAGIO
With Roberto Trifirò
Jan Fabre 's The King of Plagiarism returns to the stage as part of the second edition of the Fabre Festival, directed, dramatized, and starring Roberto Trifirò. The play is a profound reflection on the theme of authenticity in art; one of Fabre's "manifesto" monologues on his idea of the artist's place in the world. The King of Plagiarism is the charlatan artist, who defends imitation as a tool of beauty and fragility for creating art and, at the same time, for shaping his own artistic identity... [READ MORE]
Duration: 80min
Italian spoken
I BELIEVE IN THE LEGEND OF LOVE
with Ivana Jozic
Jan Fabre wrote I believe in the legend of love in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, about loving and letting go...[READ MORE]
“…Jozić returns again and again to a letter consumed not just by the dilemma of life and death, but also by love. Love, which emerges as the ultimate (and most important) theme of this performance, a performance that will be remembered by many as avant-garde, sincere, free from pretension and false moralizing, yet deeply emotional and, above all, artistically magical.” - Magdalena Mrčela | Dalmacija Danas
Duration: 1h
English spoken | Italian surtitles
IO SONO UN ERRORE | I AM A MISTAKE
With Irene Urciuoli
I am a mistake is a theatre text written by Jan Fabre in 1988. It is a manifest that amounts almost to a profession of faith by the artist. The blunt confession I am a mistake is like a mantra that repeats and divides... [READ MORE]
… the presence of Irene Urciuoli, an Italian performer who has been in Fabre's company for six years, emerges: delicate and concrete, she stands out for her precision and suppleness, her physical and evocative strength in the struggle for the power of beauty.” - Anna Bandettini | La Repubblica
Duration: 1h
Italian spoken
GIORNALE NOTTURNO (1978 - 2012)
with Carolina Migli Bateson
Giornale notturno is a visionary and disarming hymn by artist Jan Fabre, offering an intimate and provocative journey through his life, from youth to the present day. These pages explore the role of the body, both spiritual and material, cultural and visceral. In this play, Fabre's last published diaries, never before presented on stage, are also explored....[READ MORE]
Italian spoken
JAN FABRE TEACHING GROUP 5-DAY MASTERCLASSES
Following the extraordinary experiences of 2023 and 2024, Teatro OUTxOFF in Milan is organizing two new 5-Day Jan Fabre Teaching Group masterclasses.
Session 1:
30 September, 1 October, 6 October, 7 October, 8 October - with Cédric Charron & Annabelle Chambon
5 hours / day - 1 pm > 6 pm (except 8 October: 11 am - 4 pm)
Session 2:
20 October, 21 October, 22 October, 27 October, 28 October - with Irene Irciuoli
5 hours / day - 1 pm > 6 pm (except 22 October: 11 am - 4 pm)
