Re Lear e il suo buffone, Tor Bella Monaca, Nov 14-15

Re Lear e il suo buffone, a tragicomic score for two artists

In short. On Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 21:00 and Sunday, November 15 at 17:30 Sala Grande of Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, on Via Bruno Cirino in Rome, presents Re Lear e il suo buffone (King Lear and His Fool), a tragicomic score for two artists…

Re Lear e il suo buffone - Partitura tragicomica per due artisti

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On Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 21:00 and Sunday, November 15 at 17:30 Sala Grande of Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, on Via Bruno Cirino in Rome, presents Re Lear e il suo buffone (King Lear and His Fool), a tragicomic score for two artists with Alessandro Benvenuti and Roberto Abbiati. Tickets are on sale online through the theater's channels.

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

Re Lear e il suo buffone, a tragicomic score for two artists — AI-generated illustration: not a photograph of Teatro Tor Bella Monaca or of the event.

Updated October 19, 2026.

The official description

RE LEAR E IL SUO BUFFONE | A tragicomic score for two artists
With Alessandro Benvenuti and Roberto Abbiati. This tragedy is funny. | SALA GRANDE
Saturday, November 14 at 21:00
Sunday, November 15 at 17:30
Compagnia Orsini
with ALESSANDRO BENVENUTI and ROBERTO ABBIATI
dramaturgical adaptation by Alessandro Benvenuti and Roberto Abbiati from William Shakespeare's “King Lear”
with spirituals and a banjo
sound designer Johannes Schlosser
with the valuable contribution of the technical team of Fondazione Armunia
with the contribution of the Lazio Region
An old actor of Shakespeare's work finds himself isolated alone on a stage, with a light focused on his chair, dressed in a loose coat that is more a nightgown than a king's attire, and he remembers.
The actor remembers and the king remembers, he remembers the first act when there was a court, a body of guards, three daughters and something more than a nightgown.
His fool has stayed fond of him, and stays with him to remind him that he is no longer the man he used to be, the man of the first act, he has no kingdom but above all he no longer has anyone to have the fool beaten.
The tragedy remains a tragedy, but a very ironic one, as Shakespeare's words can be if you want them to, and the two characters ride the text and ride the stage and sing. They sing and play. They play a banjo that has nothing to do with Elizabethan theater, and the spirituals have nothing to do with Elizabethan theater either, but they sing them, and the policeman who was in the king's service and now drives buses in the city of Princeton has nothing to do with the tragedy either, but in this theater you can.
Text from the official website of Teatri in Comune, source

Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, Sala Grande

Sala Grande is the main hall of Teatro Tor Bella Monaca, in the neighborhood of the same name in the eastern part of Rome. The theater, part of the Teatri in Comune network, also has a Sala Piccola and runs workshops for ages 3 to 99.

The venue is on Via Bruno Cirino, on the corner of Viale Duilio Cambellotti. In the preceding weeks the same venue stages Suore fuori controllo and D'amore, ecco di cosa parliamo.