Immanuel Casto, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo at Teatro Ghione, April 14, 2027

Immanuel Casto brings his new monologue to Rome, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo ("It makes no sense but I go along with it"), subtitled "a monologue of comic pragmatism," on Wednesday, April 14, 2027 at 21:00 at Teatro Ghione, Via delle Fornaci 37 (00165 Rome), between St. Peter's and the slopes of the Janiculum. The most convenient station is Roma San Pietro, served by the FL3 and FL5 regional trains, a few minutes' walk from the theater. On the presale network authorized by the organizers full-price tickets cost €40.25 in the orchestra and €34.50 in the gallery, plus service fees. There is also a restricted-view orchestra category. The show is produced and organized by Barley Arts, and it is the last announced stop of the theater tour.

Language: performed in Italian. No English version or English surtitles are announced.

Immanuel Casto at Teatro Ghione: date, time and tickets

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is staged at Teatro Ghione for one night only, Wednesday, April 14, 2027 at 21:00.

A single date in Rome

The calendar released by Barley Arts has five evenings across Italy: Monday, March 22, 2027 at Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber in Milan, Tuesday, March 23 at Teatro Puccini in Florence, Saturday, April 10 at Teatro Superga in Turin, Tuesday, April 13 at Teatro Celebrazioni in Bologna and finally Wednesday, April 14 at Teatro Ghione in Rome. Rome closes the tour, and people living in central and southern Italy have no closer dates.

Prices

On the authorized presale network full-price tickets cost €40.25 in the orchestra and €34.50 in the gallery. The price includes the presale fee set by the organizer, while service fees are added at the time of purchase. The restricted-view orchestra, when on sale, is the cheapest option for those who want to listen more than watch.

Where to buy them

Tickets are sold on the presale network authorized by the organizers, including by phone through its call center. For information about the hall, accessibility and seats you can contact Teatro Ghione at 06 6372294 or info@teatroghione.it.

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo: what you'll see

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is a monologue in which Immanuel Casto presents himself as a pure monologist, with no songs at the center of the stage, and analyzes with irony the absurdities of modern social conventions.

Comic pragmatism

The official presentation calls it a monologue of "comic pragmatism": the artist takes everyday contradictions and turns them into an irreverent reflection. The irony the presentation calls "surgical" is the same the audience knows from his videos and interviews, applied here to the unwritten rules of living in society. The title says it all, because it describes the attitude of someone who recognizes the absurdity of a rule and decides to follow it anyway.

A three-part project

The monologue is the pivot of a larger project. In the press release with which Barley Arts announced Casto's return, the stage show travels together with a new album, Formato non riconosciuto, and a club tour. Presale for both tours started on April 1, 2026, with a precise idea: to present the artist's whole repertoire, between pop, satire and popular science.

Logic and public debate

The press release describes an artist able to make you smile while explaining how logic works, and why public debates often lack it. It's the most likely key to the evening: a comedian who reasons out loud, who takes apart one cliché at a time and asks the audience to follow his reasoning before reaching the punch line.

Who it's for

The monologue is aimed at an adult audience. Casto has built his career on explicit themes and declared provocation, and even when he leaves music for the spoken word the tone stays the same: direct, irreverent, never cautious.

From the first monologue to Non ha senso ma mi adeguo

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is not Immanuel Casto's first spoken-word show: before it came Non Erano Battute, a monologue that the organizer itself presented as meta-comic.

Non Erano Battute

The first monologue came after a tour in which Casto had reinterpreted his best-known songs with Romina Falconi and a chamber ensemble. The title came from a phrase the artist often found himself having to say, "they weren't jokes," every time one of his statements came across as funny without meaning to, because of its terse wording or its literal use of language. The show was devoted to the mechanisms of communication, one of the themes the artist has been tackling for years on his social channels.

Stepping out of music

With Non Erano Battute Casto stepped outside his musical dimension for the first time. In the presentation of that show he said he had discovered that his audience was also interested in hearing him develop arguments, and that his tendency to rationalize didn't push spectators away. The gamble of the new monologue was born from that discovery.

Pure monologist

The difference from the first experiment is in the definition: the presentation of the new show speaks of a return to the theater in an unprecedented role, that of the pure monologist. In our view it's the most interesting aspect of the Ghione evening: seeing how far an artist born as a singer-songwriter can go without the support of music.

Who Immanuel Casto is: his biography

Immanuel Casto, the stage name of Manuel Cuni, was born in Alzano Lombardo, in the province of Bergamo, on September 16, 1983. He is a singer-songwriter, game designer, popular science communicator and activist, with 20 years of career behind him.

Early years in Bologna

In 2002 he moved to Bologna to work as art director at a communications agency. Between 2003 and 2004, under the name Immanuel, he self-produced and distributed for free his first releases, linked to electronic music and to sexuality told with irony. In 2005 the album Deflorato came out, with nods to 1970s dance, and in the following years more songs and videos built the character and the audience.

From the web to radio

In June 2008 he performed at the national Pride parade, closing the concert with Alessandro Fullin and Fabio Canino. At the beginning of 2009 his first national tour started and Touché (Par l'amour) came out, the first single produced and distributed by a record label, produced by musician Stefano Keen Maggiore: the song went into rotation on radio and All Music.

Adult Music

In 2010 the singles Escort 25 and Crash came out, the latter featuring Romina Falconi, previewing his first official album, Adult Music, released in spring 2011 with distribution by Universal Music Group. Between November and December 2010 he was a regular guest on Loveline on MTV Italia. The "Adult Music" label became almost a genre: the Barley Arts press release recalls that Casto was ahead of his time.

Freak and Chic, The Pink Album, Malcostume

On September 13, 2013 his second album came out, Freak and Chic, with the singles Tropicanal, Sexual Navigator and Sognando Cracovia, sung with Romina Falconi, which became the title of their joint tour in 2014 and 2015. The same year came his first appearance on Rai, in two episodes of Aggratis!. On September 25, 2015 The Pink Album came out, and on September 14, 2018 the compilation L'età del consenso, with 17 known songs and two new ones, including Piromane. On June 10, 2022 his fourth album came out, Malcostume, previewed by Wasabi Shock.

Formato non riconosciuto

On March 31, 2026 Casto announced at once the new album, Formato non riconosciuto ("unrecognized format"), the club tour and the stage monologue. The album title, the press release explains, recalls the file that jams your computer because nobody knows which program to open it with: an image of the artist himself, hard to categorize. The album tour played Pordenone, Bologna, Milan, Turin and Florence in autumn 2026, and stopped in Rome at Largo Venue on November 20, 2026.

Immanuel Casto, game designer, Mensa president, science communicator

Alongside music, Immanuel Casto has created 15 card games, served two terms as president of Mensa Italia and works on popularizing knowledge about neurodivergence.

The card games

In 2012 he came up with Squillo, a deliberately politically incorrect card game that became a cause célèbre: on October 9, 2012, even before it was distributed, a senator called for its removal from the market during a session of parliament. The game had five expansions, from 2013 to 2017. In 2014 came Jenus, based on Don Alemanno's comic, and in 2016 Witch and Bitch, created with Marco Albiero. In 2019 he presented at Lucca Comics and Games Dogma, a game about the birth of new religions, and Squillo City, both written with Dario Massa, and in 2022, at Napoli Comicon, Rainbow Pets.

Mensa Italia

From November 1, 2019 to 2023 Casto was president of Mensa Italia, the association that brings together people with a high IQ. Since 2024 he has edited QUID, the association's digital magazine.

Science communication and activism

In recent years the artist has devoted himself to talking about neurodivergence and autism, and published the book DiversaMente with Bompiani. He is an activist in the LGBTQ+ community, godfather of many national Pride events and a founding member of the creative factory Freak and Chic. The press release also recalls him as the first European artist to collaborate with Pornhub.

Why see Immanuel Casto in the theater

The main reason to see Immanuel Casto at Ghione is to watch a many-sided artist in his most essential form: a voice, a stage, an argument.

If you know the songs

If you have followed Casto since Adult Music, you'll find the same taste for paradox and verbal excess, with one difference: here provocation is not supported by dance music but has to hold up on the rhythm of the sentence.

If you know him from social media

If you discovered him through his popular science videos, on logic, communication and neurodivergence, you'll probably find the part closest to what you already know. The press release insists on the artist's ability to analyze the present by balancing irony, satire, excess and reason.

If you don't know him

If you've never heard one of his records, my advice is to arrive without prejudice and with a minimum of information about the tone: it's adult comedy, at times fierce, that doesn't seek easy applause.

Teatro Ghione, the hall on Via delle Fornaci

Teatro Ghione is a hall of about 500 seats at Via delle Fornaci 37, a short walk from the Vatican, which bears the name of actress Ileana Ghione, its founder.

A hall for drama and concerts

For decades the Ghione program has alternated classic drama, with Wilde, Pirandello, Shakespeare and Goldoni, with concerts and comedy. The current season has included FlaMENcos, Giovanni Cacioppo and I Fantastici: a varied program, suited to a monologue like Casto's.

Ileana Ghione

Born in Cortemilia, Piedmont, on January 15, 1931, Ileana Ghione trained in the 1950s at the Accademia d'arte drammatica, where her teachers included Sergio Tofano. She became a face of TV dramas, from Jane Eyre to David Copperfield, from Buddenbrooks to Madame Curie, and acted in Giacosa's Come le foglie with Tino Carraro. On December 9, 1980 she bought and refitted the old theater on Via delle Fornaci, which has borne her name ever since.

The right size

A hall of 500 seats is the ideal size for a monologue: enough to make an evening of it, few enough for the voice to reach the gallery without losing its nuances. For a comedian who works on the detail of the sentence it's a concrete advantage.

How to get to Teatro Ghione

To reach Teatro Ghione the most convenient option is the regional train to Roma San Pietro station, served by the FL3 and FL5 lines, a few minutes' walk from Via delle Fornaci.

By train

San Pietro station, opened in 1894 on the line to Viterbo, also has a bus stop and a taxi stand. From the exit, walk up Via delle Fornaci to the theater.

By bus and metro

Buses in the area run to San Pietro station and Largo di Porta Cavalleggeri. Check lines and evening times on the ATAC route planner. The nearest Metro A stops are in Prati, about a 20-minute walk through Borgo and St. Peter's Square.

By car

The theater's website gives three parking options nearby: a free open-air lot, the San Pietro parking garage and the Bonifacio garage. If you arrive by car on a Wednesday evening, leave a little early.

What to see around Teatro Ghione before the show

Teatro Ghione is between St. Peter's, Borgo and the Janiculum: before an evening show the afternoon offers plenty of options a few minutes' walk away.

St. Peter's and Borgo

St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica are very close. Between the square and the Tiber lies the Borgo district, with the Passetto running to Castel Sant'Angelo. If you have a whole afternoon you can devote it to the Vatican Museums, booking entry in advance.

The Janiculum and Villa Pamphilj

Behind the theater rises the Janiculum, with its terrace over the city. Farther south lies Villa Doria Pamphilj, the large park of the western part of the city. In mid-April the days are already long and a walk before the show can still be taken in daylight.

Porta Cavalleggeri

Going down toward Largo di Porta Cavalleggeri you come to the Leonine Walls and the gate that preserves the Borgia coat of arms of Pope Alexander VI: a little-visited corner, a few steps from the crowds of St. Peter's.

Where to eat before or after Non ha senso ma mi adeguo

Around Teatro Ghione there are pizzerias, trattorias and bars in the streets between Via delle Fornaci, Via Gregorio VII and the slopes of the Janiculum, frequented mostly by local residents.

Before the show

With a 21:00 start there's time for an unhurried dinner: sitting down around 19:30 lets you reach the hall by 20:40. The places facing Via della Conciliazione and St. Peter's Square are mostly aimed at tourists, while the residential streets behind the theater offer simpler food and calmer prices.

After the show

The length of the show is not published. If you prefer to eat after, you'll find places in Borgo, Prati and Trastevere. On a Wednesday kitchens close earlier than at the weekend, and a booking made in the afternoon avoids surprises.

Accessibility, age and practical information

Teatro Ghione is listed as accessible to people with disabilities by the Roma Capitale tourism portal, which also mentions a dog-sitting service.

People with disabilities

If you use a wheelchair or need assistance, call the theater before the evening, at 06 6372294, to find out how access is organized and where the reserved seats are.

Kids and families

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is a show for adults. Immanuel Casto's repertoire uses explicit language and tackles sexual and social themes without filters: it's not an evening to suggest to children, and with teenagers it's best to know the artist's tone beforehand.

Punctuality

Arriving around 20:40 lets you collect your tickets, if needed, and sit down calmly. In a monologue the first minutes build the deal with the audience, and coming in after the show has started means losing the thread.

Rome in mid-April, the week of the show

April 14, 2027 falls in a week of full spring, with mild evenings and long days, and Immanuel Casto's show fits into a very busy Roman calendar.

The weather

In mid-April Rome's evening temperatures are generally pleasant, but when you leave the theater a light layer is useful. Spring is also the season when the city fills with visitors: if you're coming from outside, book accommodation and trains in good time.

A comedy season

For Casto, Ghione is the hall chosen for the tour's only Rome evening. If you want to combine two shows in the same week, check the spring program of the city's theaters, where comedy and monologues have a growing place.

A curious fact about Immanuel Casto, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo at Teatro Ghione, April 14, 2027

The most unusual curious fact in Immanuel Casto's career concerns a card game that reached parliament before it even reached the shops. In 2012 the artist created Squillo, a game in which players have to step into the shoes of pimps, built on purpose to stage political incorrectness. On October 9, 2012, while the game was still in presale, senator Emanuela Baio Dossi called for its removal from the market during a session of parliament, arguing that it promoted the commodification of the female body and other degrading practices. The controversy didn't stop the project: on the contrary, the game had five expansions between 2013 and 2017, including a time-travel trilogy spanning ancient Greece, the Middle Ages and the future, and in 2019 a board game version, Squillo City.

The second curious fact concerns the name: Immanuel Casto is a stage name, and the artist's legal name is Manuel Cuni. His first releases, between 2003 and 2004, came out simply as Immanuel, and were distributed for free. What is now a recognizable brand, spanning music, games and science communication, was therefore born as a self-produced project, given away to the online audience before any record label noticed it.

Something nobody tells you about Immanuel Casto, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo at Teatro Ghione, April 14, 2027

What is rarely said about Immanuel Casto is that his career was born in communications, even before music. In 2002 he moved to Bologna to work as art director at a communications agency, and only afterward started releasing songs. This background explains a lot about the monologue coming to Ghione: his first stage show, Non Erano Battute, was devoted precisely to the mechanisms of communication, and the graphic care the artist gives his projects has a professional root. In 2022 he also designed Romina Falconi's book Rottocalco.

The second thing seldom said is that the theater tour ends in Rome. Of the five dates announced, Ghione is the last, on April 14, after Milan, Florence, Turin and Bologna. A closing date often has a special energy: the text has been run in over four evenings, and the performer knows there's no show the next day. The third is practical: if you're torn about an orchestra seat, gallery prices are less than six euros lower, and in a hall this size the gallery is still close to the stage.

My tip for Immanuel Casto, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo at Teatro Ghione, April 14, 2027

My advice is to arrive at Ghione knowing who you're going to hear. If you know Immanuel Casto only as a writer of provocative songs, look up, in the days before, some of his popular science talks on logic, communication or neurodivergence: the monologue comes from that part of his work more than from the records, and knowing it helps you catch the register of the evening. If instead you already follow him on social media, listen to a couple of tracks from Adult Music or Malcostume, to find the pop roots of the character.

The second tip concerns your seat. For a monologue, closeness to the stage counts more than for a concert: expressions, pauses and glances are part of the joke. In our view the orchestra is worth the price difference, as long as it's not restricted view. The third concerns the afternoon: St. Peter's and the Janiculum are a few minutes away, and a sunset walk followed by an early dinner in the neighborhood is the simplest way to reach the hall without rushing.

Another well-known fact, yet one rarely mentioned

It's well known that Immanuel Casto is a singer-songwriter with explicit lyrics, who grew up in the dance scene and online. Less often mentioned is that from November 1, 2019 to 2023 he was president of Mensa Italia, the international association that brings together people with a high IQ and promotes intelligence and talent. The Barley Arts press release even speaks of two terms, and since 2024 the artist has edited QUID, the association's digital magazine. The contrast between the singer of Escort 25 and the president of an association of high-IQ people is, on reflection, the key to the whole character.

A second rarely mentioned fact concerns television. Casto's first appearance on Rai came only in 2013, in two episodes of Aggratis!, after years of a career built almost entirely outside traditional channels: the web, clubs, Prides, radio. Few Italian artists have reached a national audience while staying so long on the margins of mainstream television, and today's theater tour, in the main halls of five cities, measures the road traveled since those free releases of the early 2000s.

The right photo to take at Immanuel Casto, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo at Teatro Ghione, April 14, 2027

The right photo, for an evening like this, is taken before the start: the Ghione stage lit and empty, with the microphone or chair the monologist will use, and the hall filling up. During the show my advice is not to take pictures: in a monologue concentration is everything, and a lit screen in a dark hall disturbs both performer and listeners.

The second photo is taken on the way out. Going down Via delle Fornaci toward Largo di Porta Cavalleggeri you arrive in front of the Leonine Walls, with the lit dome of St. Peter's not far away: a night image of Rome that at that hour, on a Wednesday, you have almost to yourself.

The third is for detail lovers: the theater's sign, with Ileana Ghione's name, recalls that this hall exists thanks to an actress's choice, when in 1980 she decided to buy an old neighborhood theater and give it a second life. A photo of the sign, with the uphill street behind it, tells the story of the place better than any shot of the stage.

Some important events that happened here in history

The area around Teatro Ghione has an ancient history. The Leonine Walls ran here, and Porta Cavalleggeri preserves the Borgia coat of arms of Pope Alexander VI. On April 30, 1849 the first attack by French troops against the Roman Republic was fought at Porta Cavalleggeri and repelled by the defenders, among them the young actor Tommaso Salvini, who would become one of the great performers of 19th-century Italian theater.

In 1894 San Pietro station opened, on the line to Viterbo: the Vatican railway also starts here, and cinema has used the station as a set, with Totò, Alberto Sordi and Virna Lisi. On December 9, 1980 Ileana Ghione bought the old theater on Via delle Fornaci and reopened it under her name. On November 25, 1986 Shaw's Candida was staged there, directed by Silverio Blasi. In 2001 the actress received from President Ciampi the honor of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

In December 2005 Ileana Ghione, while performing Euripides' Hecuba on her own stage, was taken ill and died shortly after, and her body lay in state in the theater. Since then the hall has kept hosting drama, concerts and comedy, up to Immanuel Casto's monologue on April 14, 2027.

Who has passed through Immanuel Casto, Non ha senso ma mi adeguo at Teatro Ghione, April 14, 2027

Many fellow travelers have passed through Immanuel Casto's career. Romina Falconi is the most constant presence: her voice is on Crash and Sognando Cracovia, Casto shared with her the 2014 and 2015 Sognando Cracovia Tour and the 2022 and 2023 Insegnami la vita Tour, and with her and a chamber ensemble he reinterpreted his songs before reaching the theater. Alessandro Fullin and Fabio Canino closed the 2008 national Pride concert with him, and Stefano Keen Maggiore produced Touché, his first single distributed by a label. For the games, the names are Don Alemanno, author of the Jenus comic, Marco Albiero and Dario Massa.

Teatro Ghione has seen the classics of drama, from Wilde to Pirandello, from Shakespeare to Goldoni, and the face of Ileana Ghione, a pupil of Sergio Tofano and stage partner of Tino Carraro. The neighborhood around it has seen popes and soldiers, the Borgias and Tommaso Salvini. In the 2026 and 2027 season the hall on Via delle Fornaci also welcomes flamenco, tribute concerts and comedy: Casto's monologue joins a program that has always mixed genres and audiences.

Frequently asked questions about Immanuel Casto at Teatro Ghione

When is Non ha senso ma mi adeguo on in Rome?

Immanuel Casto's Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is on in Rome on Wednesday, April 14, 2027 at 21:00, at Teatro Ghione, Via delle Fornaci 37. It's the only Rome date of the theater tour and also the last of the five announced, after Milan, Florence, Turin and Bologna.

How much are tickets for Immanuel Casto at Ghione?

For Immanuel Casto at Teatro Ghione full-price tickets cost €40.25 in the orchestra and €34.50 in the gallery on the presale network authorized by the organizers, with service fees on top. There is also a restricted-view orchestra.

What kind of show is Non ha senso ma mi adeguo?

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is a comic monologue, described by the organizers as "a monologue of comic pragmatism": Immanuel Casto analyzes with irony the absurdities of modern social conventions, as a pure monologist. It's part of a project that includes the new album Formato non riconosciuto and a club tour.

Is Immanuel Casto's show suitable for children?

Immanuel Casto's show is designed for an adult audience. The artist is known for explicit language and declared provocation on sexual and social themes. It's not an evening suited to children, and with teenagers it's best to know his style beforehand.

Where is Teatro Ghione and how do you get there?

Teatro Ghione is at Via delle Fornaci 37, between St. Peter's and the Janiculum. The nearest station is Roma San Pietro, served by the FL3 and FL5 regional trains. Buses run to the station and Largo di Porta Cavalleggeri, and the theater lists three parking options nearby.

Who organizes the show?

Immanuel Casto's show at Teatro Ghione is produced and organized by Barley Arts, which also handles the Formato non riconosciuto music tour. Tickets are on sale on the presale network authorized by the organizers, including by phone.

Who is Immanuel Casto?

Immanuel Casto, the stage name of Manuel Cuni, born in Alzano Lombardo in 1983, is a singer-songwriter, card game designer, science communicator and activist. He has released albums such as Adult Music, Freak and Chic, The Pink Album and Malcostume, and was president of Mensa Italia from 2019 to 2023.

My final tip on Immanuel Casto at Teatro Ghione

Non ha senso ma mi adeguo is, in our view, the right show to understand what holds together Immanuel Casto's many identities: the scandalous singer-songwriter, the designer of politically incorrect games, the Mensa president, the science communicator. Take away the music and what remains is the method, that is, rigorous reasoning applied to deliberately absurd material. My advice is to book an orchestra seat early, arrive a few minutes ahead and expect an adult evening that spares no one. Ghione, with its intimate size and its history as an actress's hall, is the right setting to close the tour.

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