Five strangers find themselves in a nondescript provincial hall for a theatre course: Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation recounts with both lightness and depth how theatre can become an opportunity for connection and change.

On stage, six weeks of theatre exercises put ordinary people to the test, who gradually reveal themselves through small gestures, hesitations and silences. Baker’s writing, one of the most original voices in American drama and a Pulitzer Prize winner, transforms the ordinary into a theatrical narrative, bringing to the fore the universal need for connection, recognition and being heard.

The play alternates between comic and tender moments and more intimate reflections: a surprising and intensely true work that reflects on theatre, life and the time that passes us by.

Starring Valerio Binasco, Pamela Villoresi, Alessia Giuliani, Andrea Di Casa and Maria Trenta; directed by Valerio Binasco. Teatro Stabile di Torino and Teatro di Roma.