LANGUAGE: Italian
DURATION: to be defined
TICKET: €13 full price, €11 reduced
Tacet is a performance about the “minute of silence”: a moment in which bodies come to a halt, time is suspended, and thought confronts the presence or absence of someone or something.
The idea originates from a 1918 recording marking the transition from war to ceasefire: six lines on paper register three seconds of war and three of peace, separated by the armistice, making silence something measurable.
On stage, six performers give body to this structure: they move through space like on a chessboard, take turns at microphones, walk, and mark time until they share a real minute of silence with the audience.
Silence is not emptiness, but a time filled with attention, expectation, and memory. Through concrete examples of collective minutes of silence throughout history and public life, the performance shows how this simple gesture becomes a collective ritual that brings together different people within the same suspended time.
IN SHORT
A performance about the minute of silence: six performers recreate and explore it on stage with the audience, starting from multiple concrete examples, transforming it into a shared collective ritual.
Winning text of the 58th Riccione Prize for Theatre 2025
Winning text of Biennale College Teatro – Under 40 Playwriting (2024–2025)
Playwright Jacopo Giacomoni
Director Silvia Costa
With Silvia Costa, Jacopo Giacomoni, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Dylan Guzowski, Elena Rivoltini, Matto Zoppi
Music Nicola Ratti
Lighting design Andrea Sanson in collaboration with Isadora Giuntini
Stage sculptures Plastikart Zimmermann & Amoroso
Costumes Fabio Quaranta
Assistant director Luna Scolari
Stage technology Alovisi Attrezzeria
Production photos Luca Del Pia
Press office Antonella Mucciaccio
Production La Biennale di Venezia, Cranpi, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa
With the support of Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC)
With the support of Italian Cultural Institute, Santiago
With the support of Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
Residency Office for a Human Theatre / Teatro alla Cartiera
In collaboration with Riccione Teatro, Department of Performing Arts of the Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile
Jacopo Giacomoni, with a degree in Philosophy with a thesis on fictional characters, is a playwright and performer. In 2025 he won the 58th Riccione Prize for Theatre with Tacet, after the Biennale Teatro “Autori” call in 2024 and an honorable mention for the Franco Quadri Prize in 2023. His research, of a structuralist nature, explores theatrical devices open to chance and audience participation. His works take hybrid and experimental forms, between scenic games, rituals, and interventions on existing texts. As a performer, he combines acting and musical practice, working on improvisation and unconventional sounds.
Silvia Costa, a graduate of IUAV University of Venice, is an actress, director, and visual artist. She began her career with Romeo Castellucci’s Societas Raffaello Sanzio, becoming his artistic collaborator. Since 2007 she has developed an independent practice of visual and poetic theatre, exploring the power of images. A finalist at the Premio Scenario in 2013, she also works regularly in France as a director. Active between theatre and opera, in 2022 she was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
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PAROLE MOSAICO
At 20:15 pm, at the theatre bar, “Parole Mosaico” will be held, a short pre-show meeting led by the artistic director to share the themes, history, and language of the performance and offer some interpretations.
