“Tabucchi chiama, Pirandello risponde” (Tabucchi calls, Pirandello answers) is loosely based on “Mr. Pirandello is Wanted on the Telephone” by Antonio Tabucchi and supplemented by fragments of Pirandellian novels. Staged by TeatroLab Romanistik – Student Ensemble of the Institute of Roman Studies of the University of Vienna – the show, directed by Veronica Granatiero and assistant director Cristian Rossi, features Lea Bacher, Roxanne Bakowsky, Verena Dobretsberger, Irene Fally, Valeria Gubitosi, Larissa Kaligaris, Helga Kurzweil, Anna Mannersdorfer, Laura Nenzi, Sabine Pohl., Mariela Rintala, Stefano Saponaro, Nina Schuldner, Ludwig Schwiedrzik, and Andreas Steingress. It is directed by Veronica Garg, Assistant Director Cristian Rossi. “Theatre within theatre, a journey through the vast landscape of the human soul awaits you – as written on the Italian Institute of Culture of Vienna website- in the context of a Portuguese psychiatric clinic of 1935, failed actors, mentally ill people and Pirandellian ghosts emerge and sink, constantly oscillating between dream, reality, and fantasy”.
