In July and August, the old and pretty town Sarsina – on the hills of Emilia Romagna 30 minutes away from Cesena – hosts the Plautus Festival, one of the most important theatre Italian summer events. which in 2025 reaches its 65th edition.
The Festival is entitled to Titus Maccius Plautus, the greatest Latin comedy writer born in Sarsina around 254-250 a.C.
The event takes place in the suggestive Arena of Plautus in the Medieval village of Calbano, on a natural slope immersed in a very particular and beautiful environment. The Arena welcomes more than a thousand people with numbered seats. A modern mobile cover assures the representation of the shows also in case of rain.
Even though the festival endorses old drama, it also hosts works of contemporary dramaturgy, so that by the time the playbill included not only Plautus but also Racine, Euripides, Dostoevskij, Molière and Pirandello, Shakespeare and D’Annunzio, Goldoni and Pasolini.
Some of the actors who played at the Plautus Festival are Alessandro Gassman, Vanessa Gravina, Giorgio Albertazzi, Elisabetta Pozzi, Mario Scaccia, Manuela Mandracchia, Giuseppe Pambieri, Lia Tanzi, Massimo Venturiello, Pamela Villoresi, Arnoldo Foà.
In some post-shows in the evening, the historical center of Sarsina turns into an open-air cultural gathering with live music and musical notes from famous operas.
INFORMATION
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Photo: previous editions
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