Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame' at the Bellini

Samuel Beckett'sFinale di partita will be staged Nov. 13-29, 2025 at Teatro Bellini.

The play for production Fondazione Teatro di Napoli - Teatro Bellini with Teatro Biondo Palermo, is a national premiere on a translation by Carlo Fruttero and directed by Gabriele Russo.
On stage Michele Di Mauro, Giuseppe Sartori, Alessio Piazza, Anna Rita Vitolo, with sets by Roberto Crea, costumes by Enzo Pirozzi, lighting design by Roberto Crea and Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, music and sound design by Antonio Della Ragione.

The family remains the seismic zone par excellence of theater. From Sophocles onward, it is the terrain where the rift between the need for love and the need to defend against love itself is consumed. In 2025, inside a world that seems to have passed its apex of meaning, I return to Finale di partita starting from there: from the family as the last refuge and, at the same time, the last prison. The intent is to free Beckett from the framework of the Absurd and the "after the end of the world" and return him to a reality that belongs to us. The Absurd is not a genre: it is an everyday condition. It lives in the repetition of gestures, in the habits that keep us alive, in the fear of changing position, of going out, of being alone.

Hamm and Clov's apartment is a real, decaying, impoverished house. The windows no longer open, the parents have lived for years in the bathroom-not in a scenic abstraction, but in a tub that smells of rust and memory. Everything around them is real, tangible, but also fragile like a crumbling memory. The reference to the pandemic period remains undercurrent, unstated. There is no need to name it: it has remained in the actors' bodies, in their held breaths, in the distance with which they speak to each other. Segregation, exhaustion, forced cohabitation are experiences we recognize today without the need for metaphors. Finale di partita thus becomes an x-ray of our time: a family locked in a repeating routine, unable to save itself and unable to stop trying. Not a philosophical allegory, but a story of love and survival. Pain, addiction, fear, irony: everything moves within a present that never passes. The game is still the same, but the ending is no longer an abstract concept. It is the daily surrender that each of us makes in front of the other, in an attempt - desperate and tender - to stay alive.

Showtimes: weekdays h. 8:45 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 26 h. 5:30 p.m., Saturday h. 7 p.m., Sunday h. 6 p.m., Monday rest.

Price info: Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday I and II sector 25,00 € + 2,50 € prev., III sector 18,00 € + 2,00 € prev. - Friday - Saturday - Sunday I and II sector 30,00 € + 3,00 € prev., III sector 22,00 € +2,00 € prev. - Under 29 15 € valid for all performances (best available seat at time of purchase).

The agreement with Teatro Bellini reserves special conditions for students and staff of the Federico II to attend some performances of the program.