Take the stage!

The Teatro Stabile di Torino - the Turin Resident Theatre - celebrates fifty years of activities. The adventure began in 1955, and today the organisation finds itself at the heart of the cultural re-birth of the city.The fifty years have been years of inventiveness and commitment to the city, of creativity and clashes. From the post-war period up to more recent times, the city has been echoed by its theatre as it has recounted its tensions and achievements, its contradictions and unforgettable moments. The story, told from the viewpoint of an illustrious, enthusiastic, but wryly detached spectator, includes heroic protagonists and romantic illusions, wasted creativity and unforgettable events. And the story brings us right up to today, describing a city undergoing profound changes, progressing towards an open-ended future of art and culture. And the theatre, that old theatre of “gold and velvet”, is today both the driving force and the witness of the profound changes, from the industri