Too Late at Teatro Vascello, by Jon Fosse with Anna Bonaiuto, April 6 to 11, 2027

Too Late at Teatro Vascello is Jon Fosse's play with Anna Bonaiuto, on stage in Rome from April 6 to 11, 2027, at Via Giacinto Carini 78, in Monteverde Vecchio. There are six performances: Tuesday, April 6 to Friday, April 9 at 21:00, Saturday, April 10 at 19:00 and Sunday, April 11 at 17:00. The show runs one hour and 10 minutes. Translation, adaptation and direction are by Thea Dellavalle, in a project conceived with Irene Petris. Alongside Anna Bonaiuto, as Nora, are Irene Petris, Roberta Ricciardi, Emanuele Righi and Giuseppe Sartori. The production is by Teatro Nazionale di Genova and TPE Teatro Piemonte Europa, in collaboration with Lido51. Vascello is reached by bus 75, which stops in front of the entrance, or by lines 44, 710, 870 and 871. By train, from Ostiense station, get off at Quattro Venti, a few steps away. Tickets are sold from the official show page on the Teatro Vascello website, which links to the authorized presale network, or at the theater box office. Prices are published on the venue's official channels.

Language: opera sung in its original language; no English surtitles are announced, so check with the theater.

Too Late comes from an opera libretto that Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote for the Chinese composer Du Wei: an opera never staged in Italy. At its center is an elderly Nora, who many years earlier left her husband and children to become a painter, and who now lets her memories visit her. It's a return to Ibsen's A Doll's House seen from the other side of time. Below you'll find dates and times, the plot, the director's notes, the biographies of Fosse, Anna Bonaiuto and the Dellavalle and Petris duo, the history of Teatro Vascello, how to get there, where to eat and frequently asked questions.

Too Late at Teatro Vascello: dates, times and running time

Too Late has six performances at Teatro Vascello, from April 6 to 11, 2027, each lasting one hour and 10 minutes.

The performance schedule

Tuesday the 6th, Wednesday the 7th, Thursday the 8th and Friday, April 9 at 21:00. Saturday, April 10 at 19:00. Sunday, April 11 at 17:00. It's Vascello's usual pattern for the 2026/2027 season: weekday evenings at 21:00, an earlier start on Saturday, a matinee on Sunday.

Running time

One hour and 10 minutes with no announced interval: the evening performances end around 22:10, the Saturday one around 20:10 and the Sunday one around 18:10. That leaves plenty of time for dinner after the theater, even on weekdays.

Full credits

Text by Jon Fosse. Translation by Thea Dellavalle. A project by Dellavalle and Petris. On stage, in alphabetical order: Anna Bonaiuto (Nora), Irene Petris (Woman), Roberta Ricciardi (Girl), Emanuele Righi (Shadow), Giuseppe Sartori (Man). Directed by Thea Dellavalle. Sound by Franco Visioli. Sets by Francesco Esposito. Costumes by Marta Balduinotti.

Production and rights

Produced by Teatro Nazionale di Genova and TPE Teatro Piemonte Europa, in collaboration with Lido51, in agreement with Arcadia and Ricono Ltd and by kind permission of Colombine Teaterförlag, the agency that represents the rights to the text.

What Jon Fosse's Too Late is about

In Too Late an elderly woman, Nora, begins her day by going back over the decisive moments of her life, while her memories take shape on stage beside her. That's the plot as Vascello's official presentation tells it.

A new Nora

Fosse puts the audience in front of the choice of a woman who left her husband and children to become an artist. She left her life behind to start over and never went back. Years later, the show's gaze and thoughts are hers, while the shadows of the past come back to visit her.

Figures of memory

Memory calls other figures onto the stage: a younger Nora, the lead in a few scenes with her husband, in which you can read passion, weariness, dissatisfaction and crisis, up to rebellion and the man's new love for a younger girl. Nora stays on stage the whole time, tied to the concrete gestures of painting.

Three women and a double

The elderly woman is mirrored in three women of different ages, present together without meeting: each is Nora and also something else. The Man is double too, because he always moves through the space followed by his Shadow. This simultaneous presence opens glimpses onto the past and, the presentation says, onto the future as well.

The white canvas

In the flow of thoughts, unease becomes obsession, impulses lose energy and find it again in a hand to hold or a canvas to cover with white paint, for the feeling of starting over. It's the image that holds the show together: life as a series of white canvases to fill.

The title

The title says it: it's too late. The question that runs through the evening is simple and dizzying: is there really anything for which it's too late, and can the distance between living and understanding what happened be crossed?

Too Late and A Doll's House: Nora's return

Too Late imagines a return to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House: the Nora who, in the 1879 play, leaves home slamming the door is here an elderly woman coming to terms with that choice.

The slammed door

The director's notes start right there: Nora's new life begins with a door opened and then slammed. Dellavalle imagines that founding gesture returning several times during the show, like a recurring image in the protagonist's mind. A closed door, the notes say, is a choice.

An undercurrent echo

Ibsen's Nora, a literary example of emancipation, runs underneath like an echo that Fosse sets in friction with a present close to the audience. The great themes of life, art, creation, time and the prospect of the end, gain strength in an everyday life constantly reinvented.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Beckett

According to the presentation, Fosse's writing evokes ghosts and accents of Ibsen's theater, but also of Chekhov and Samuel Beckett, in a text that grows from a root that isn't purely theatrical, the opera libretto, and lets through atmospheres that go beyond time and space.

Six characters

The direction also recalls Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author: Nora's memories are the characters of her story, moments that appear on the threshold and ask to be relived or passed through. What fascinates the director most is the possibility of interaction between Nora and the figures in her mind.

From opera libretto to play: the story of Nora Too Late

In its original form, Nora Too Late is the libretto Jon Fosse wrote for the opera of the same name by the Chinese composer Du Wei, born in 1978, first staged in Tianjin in October 2014.

From Tianjin to Norway

After the Chinese premiere, the following season the opera was performed in Norway, in Bodø, Tromsø and Trondheim. It has never been staged in Italy: the text reaches Italian audiences for the first time in Dellavalle and Petris's spoken version.

Du Wei

The presentation describes Du Wei as a very well-known and active composer in China, also present in America, Northern Europe and Denmark. Her score is not used in the show: the sound work is by Franco Visioli.

An original idea

Too Late began as an original idea of the Dellavalle and Petris duo, who chose to start from an unpublished text and turn it into spoken theater. Direction, translation and adaptation are by Thea Dellavalle, and the collaboration with Teatro Nazionale di Genova made the coproduction with TPE possible.

Spare writing

The director's notes stress that Fosse's spare writing leaves room for imagination: pauses, repetitions, sentences that fold back on themselves. The author, the presentation recalls, has said more than once that his texts should not be read for the plot.

Who Jon Fosse is, the author

Jon Olav Fosse, born in Haugesund on September 29, 1959, is a Norwegian writer and playwright, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Nynorsk and early work

He writes in Nynorsk, one of the two written forms of Norwegian. He made his name at home in 1983 with the novel Raudt, Svart (Red, Black), whose title recalls Stendhal's The Red and the Black. In 1993 international recognition came with his first play, Nokon kjem til å kome, Someone Is Going to Come.

The Nobel

On October 5, 2023 the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable. In 2007 he had been made a knight of the Ordre National du Mérite in France, and the Norwegian government, for his literary merits, granted him the use of the Grotten residence, on the grounds of the Royal Palace in Oslo.

The most performed playwright

With more than 1,000 productions of his works, as of 2025 Fosse is the most performed Scandinavian playwright in the world after Ibsen: a figure that makes the dialogue with A Doll's House at the center of Too Late all the more meaningful.

Septology

In Italy his novels are published by La nave di Teseo, translated by Margherita Podestà Heir: Morning and Evening, the three volumes of Septology, A Shining. Melancholia and Insomnia came out earlier with Fandango, translated by Cristina Falcinella.

Fosse and Rome

On March 25, 2025 Fosse received the Lupa Capitolina, the city's honor, from Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri. As a young man, his biography says, he played in a band whose idol was Neil Young.

Who Anna Bonaiuto is, the lead

Anna Bonaiuto, born in Latisana, in the province of Udine, on January 28, 1950, is a stage and film actress, winner of the Coppa Volpi in Venice, the David di Donatello and the Premio Ubu.

The Academy and the stage

The daughter of a Neapolitan father and a Friulian mother, she graduated at 22 from the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome. On stage she has worked with directors like Mario Missiroli, Luca Ronconi, Mario Martone, Carlo Cecchi and Toni Servillo. Vascello's presentation recalls her Hedda Gabler by Ibsen, directed by Cecchi: an Ibsen precedent that makes her meeting with Fosse's Nora feel natural.

Early films

In 1973 she was in the cast of Lina Wertmüller's Love and Anarchy. Her first major role was Armida in Eriprando Visconti's Una spirale di nebbia, in 1977, and in 1980 she appeared, uncredited, in Federico Fellini's City of Women.

Martone and the Coppa Volpi

In 1992 Martone cast her as the wife of Renato Caccioppoli in Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, alongside Carlo Cecchi. In 1993 she won the Coppa Volpi at the Venice Film Festival for best supporting actress for a film by Liliana Cavani.

L'amore molesto

In 1995 Martone gave her the lead in L'amore molesto, based on Elena Ferrante's novel, in competition at Cannes. For that film she won the David di Donatello, the Nastro d'Argento, the Globo d'Oro and the Grolla d'Oro for best actress.

Moretti, Sorrentino, Verdone

Nanni Moretti directed her in The Caiman in 2006, in 2007 she worked with Daniele Luchetti, and she then played Livia Danese, Giulio Andreotti's wife, in Paolo Sorrentino's Il divo, one of her most celebrated roles. In 2010 Carlo Verdone directed her in one of his most successful comedies.

The Premio Ubu

In 2003 she won the Premio Ubu for best Italian actress as Donna Rosa Priore in Eduardo De Filippo's Sabato, domenica e lunedì, directed by Toni Servillo. The Too Late presentation calls her a grande dame of the stage who has chosen to share it with younger artists.

Thea Dellavalle and Irene Petris: the duo behind Too Late

Thea Dellavalle and Irene Petris met in 2004 in Palermo, in Ibsen's Ghosts directed by Massimo Castri, and since 2014 they have been staging unpublished texts by Jon Fosse.

Castri's workshop

In that show Petris made her debut as Regine, after the Accademia Paolo Grassi and the summer school of Luca Ronconi's Centro Teatrale Santacristina. Dellavalle, a graduate of DAMS in Turin, had been Castri's assistant for some years. In the following decade both worked with directors like Alvis Hermanis, Pascal Rambert, Romeo Castellucci, Andrea De Rosa and Valter Malosti.

The dellavallepetris collective

In 2013 their first project as an artistic collective premiered, Un Ballo, from Irène Némirovsky's novella, opening the season of Teatro delle Passioni in Modena. In 2014 came their first Fosse, Suzannah, unpublished in Italy, with Bruna Rossi as Ibsen's wife.

The dead dogs and The Nest

The dead dogs, another unpublished Fosse text, won the Forever Young 2017/2018 call of La Corte Ospitale with the Premio Hystrio and was staged in Turin, Rome and Milan. In 2021, for TPE under Malosti's direction, came The Nest, il Nido, from Franz Xaver Kroetz, and the same year Dellavalle directed Fabrice Murgia's Change le monde, trouve la guerre in Genoa.

Castri and Lido51

In 2022 and 2023, for the 10th anniversary of Castri's death, Dellavalle curated a website devoted to the director with the University of Turin and, with Andrea Cora, the radio special Le stanze dell'utopia for Rai Radio3. In 2023 the multidisciplinary collective Lido51 was born, which collaborates on Too Late.

Franco Visioli's sound

The presentation stresses the sound work, almost a dramaturgy in itself, of Franco Visioli, a composer and sound designer who has worked with many of the leading directors of recent decades and received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2020.

A curious fact about Too Late by Jon Fosse with Anna Bonaiuto at Teatro Vascello, April 6 to 11, 2027

The strongest curious fact concerns Rome itself and the lineage of this show. Dellavalle and Petris's first encounter with Fosse, Suzannah in 2014, was about Henrik Ibsen's wife, played by Bruna Rossi: the following season that show became part of Teatro di Roma's Jon Fosse Trilogy, at Teatro India. 12 years later the duo returns to Rome with another Fosse play in dialogue with Ibsen, this time through his most famous heroine. From Suzannah to Nora, the thread is the same: the women of Ibsen's world seen by a Norwegian writer born more than a century later. A second curious fact is an overlap of themes within Fosse's work. In March 2024, at Teatro Carignano in Turin, Valerio Binasco directed the Italian premiere of The Girl on the Sofa, in which a middle-aged woman paints the portrait of a girl sitting on a sofa, poised between present and past. In Too Late, too, the protagonist is a painter questioning her memories, and the canvas is the place where time stops or starts again. A third curious fact: the text Fosse wrote to be sung, to Du Wei's music, is heard at Vascello only as spoken drama, with Franco Visioli's sound dramaturgy in place of the orchestra.

Tickets for Too Late at Vascello

Tickets for Too Late are sold on the official Teatro Vascello website, which links to the authorized presale network, or at the theater box office at Via Giacinto Carini 78.

Online

The show page gives access to online purchase. Vascello explains that this way tickets, subscriptions and cards go straight to your phone, with no printing.

Cards and subscriptions

The theater offers cards for the 2026/2027 season, to be bought at least 24 hours before first use. If you follow Vascello's program regularly, consider them before buying a single ticket.

Prices

Prices are published on Vascello's official channels and on the authorized network. Check there for any reductions.

Which night to choose

With six performances and a name like Anna Bonaiuto on the bill, the weekend nights tend to fill up first. If you're flexible, aim for Tuesday or Wednesday.

Something nobody tells you about Too Late by Jon Fosse with Anna Bonaiuto at Teatro Vascello, April 6 to 11, 2027

What nobody tells you is that Too Late is not a plot-driven show. Anyone who hears Fosse, Nobel and Ibsen expects a story to follow, but instead the text moves by returns, pauses and sentences repeated with small variations. The director's notes quote a passage in which Nora wonders if she was right or wrong, laughs to herself, and says the same sentence twice: that's how Fosse speaks, with a music made of repetitions. The advice is to let yourself be carried by the rhythm without immediately looking for the meaning of every line, the way you listen to a piece of music, and after all the text was born as an opera libretto. The second thing concerns the running time. One hour and 10 minutes may seem short, but they're full: no spectacular scene changes, a protagonist always present, figures entering and leaving memory. Arriving tired, after a day rushing around Rome, is the best way to miss the effect. The third concerns the audience. The director's notes end with a series of questions aimed at the viewer: who is Nora talking to, where does the spectator stand in relation to her explaining herself, is the audience a mirror, a wall, a public? Too Late asks for involvement, and gives a lot back to those who offer it.

My tip for seeing Too Late by Jon Fosse with Anna Bonaiuto at Teatro Vascello, April 6 to 11, 2027

My tip is to come prepared on one point only: the ending of A Doll's House. Just remember that Nora, after years of marriage, realizes she has lived like a doll in her husband's house and leaves, leaving him and the children, closing the door behind her. Too Late picks up from there, many years later, and recognizing the echo of that slammed door, which the direction brings back several times, is half the pleasure. If you have time, read a few pages of Fosse as well: Morning and Evening, for example, is short and gives an immediate sense of his language. As for which night, the weekday 21:00 performances are ideal if you live in Rome: an hour and 10 minutes of theater and then dinner in Monteverde. If you're coming from outside Rome, choose Saturday the 10th at 19:00 or Sunday the 11th at 17:00 and build an April weekend around the show, between the Janiculum, Villa Sciarra and Trastevere. In our view it's best to sit not too far from the stage: it's a show of looks, pauses and tiny gestures, above all that of the brush on the canvas, and closeness helps. Finally, book early: Anna Bonaiuto in a play by the Norwegian Nobel winner draws drama lovers.

How to get to Teatro Vascello for Too Late

Teatro Vascello is at Via Giacinto Carini 78, in Monteverde Vecchio, and is reached by bus 75, which stops in front of the entrance.

By bus

The 75 is the most direct line from the center. The theater also lists lines 44, 710, 870 and 871, which connect Monteverde with Trastevere and the western neighborhoods. For evening times, especially on the way back, check the Atac route planner.

By train

From Ostiense station the commuter train takes you to Quattro Venti station, a few steps from the theater. It's the fastest option if you're coming on Metro B, connected to Ostiense by the Piramide stop.

By car

The theater suggests parking along Via delle Mura Gianicolensi, about 100 meters away. There are paid parking garages at Via Giacinto Carini 43, at Via Maurizio Quadrio 22, which offers a discount if you show your ticket, and at Via Raffaello Giovagnoli 20.

On foot

If you're staying in Trastevere you can walk up to Monteverde: the climb is steep but short, and in April the evening walk is pleasant. For the way back, after 22:00, the bus is the most convenient choice.

Teatro Vascello, an experimental stage in Monteverde

Teatro Vascello opened on May 4, 1989 on Via Giacinto Carini, founded by Giancarlo Nanni and Manuela Kustermann with the company La Fabbrica dell'Attore.

Roots at Teatro La Fede

Before Vascello there was Teatro La Fede, at Via Portuense 78, where in the 1970s Nanni and Kustermann worked within the so-called Roman school, a theater that favored image over word. Memè Perlini and Giuliano Vasilicò came out of the same scene.

Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione

In 1998 the Ministry recognized La Fabbrica dell'Attore as a Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione. In 2004 the Sala Studio opened. After Nanni's death in January 2010, artistic direction passed to Manuela Kustermann, who has held it ever since.

A season of returns to the classics

Vascello's 2026/2027 season is full of rereadings: in autumn Alessandro Serra's Tragudia, Il canto di Edipo, then Ben Duke's The Last Hamlet. Too Late adds Ibsen to the journey, reread through Fosse.

The hall and the bistro

Inside the theater is the Coffee Plant Bistrot, handy for a coffee or a snack before the show. The Vascello website also has a section on accessibility.

Another well-known fact, yet one rarely mentioned

That A Doll's House ends with Nora leaving home is one of the best-known endings in the history of theater. Less often mentioned is that almost nobody has seriously asked what happened next, and that the one doing it, with Too Late, is the very writer who today, with more than 1,000 productions of his works, is the most performed Scandinavian playwright in the world after Ibsen himself. It's a handover between two Norwegians almost a century and a half apart. A second fact known to enthusiasts and rarely told: Fosse had already written about Ibsen's family, and the Dellavalle and Petris duo had already staged it. Suzannah, the 2014 show, was devoted to the playwright's wife. Too Late ideally closes a circle: first the woman beside Ibsen, now the woman Ibsen invented. A third fact concerns Anna Bonaiuto. Audiences remember her mostly for film, from L'amore molesto to Il divo, but her path was theatrical from the start: a diploma from the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, work with Ronconi, Missiroli, Cecchi, Martone and Servillo, and a Premio Ubu in 2003 for Eduardo. Her Hedda Gabler with Carlo Cecchi, recalled in Vascello's presentation, is the Ibsen precedent that makes this elderly Nora anything but a random choice.

The neighborhood around Teatro Vascello: Monteverde Vecchio

Monteverde Vecchio is the upper, residential part of Monteverde, above Trastevere, between the Janiculum and the great historic villas.

The Janiculum

The Janiculum is very close: in April, with the long days, the view over Rome before the Sunday 11th matinee is the best way to start the day.

The villas

Villa Sciarra and Villa Doria Pamphilj are the two green stops in the area, and they're at their best in April. Check the gate closing times.

The Fontanone and San Pancrazio

Walking up the hill you reach the Acqua Paola Fountain and, a little further, the Basilica of San Pancrazio.

Trastevere

At the foot of Monteverde lies Trastevere, with the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. On Sunday morning, before the 17:00 performance, it's worth stopping at Porta Portese.

The right photo to take at Too Late by Jon Fosse with Anna Bonaiuto at Teatro Vascello, April 6 to 11, 2027

No photos during the show: in a text made of silences, pauses and tiny gestures, a lit screen or the click of a shutter breaks the whole hall's attention. The right photo is taken before and after. The first is the Vascello facade on Via Giacinto Carini with the Too Late poster: Anna Bonaiuto's name next to the Norwegian Nobel winner's is a souvenir worth keeping. The second is a photo that talks to the show: a door. Too Late begins with a slammed door, the one Nora used to leave Ibsen's house, and the old doors of the buildings in Monteverde and Trastevere, photographed at sunset, are the simplest way to take home the key image of the evening. The third is taken on the Janiculum, before the Sunday 11th matinee: Rome from above in April light. It's a photograph with something of Nora's white canvas, a whole city to look at with hindsight, as the protagonist does with her own life. A rule that always applies: no flash, no video, no shots during the curtain calls while the performers are on stage, unless the theater says otherwise.

Where to eat before or after Too Late

Teatro Vascello has its own bistro, the Coffee Plant Bistrot, for a coffee or a snack before the show.

In Monteverde

The neighborhood has trattorias and pizzerias frequented mostly by residents, with lower prices than in Trastevere: the most convenient choice after the 21:00 performances, which end early.

In Trastevere

After the Saturday 19:00 performance, head down to Trastevere, where osterias and trattorias stay open late. On a Saturday night in April, book.

On Sunday

The Sunday 11th matinee ends at aperitivo time: a glass in Monteverde and then an unhurried dinner is the most natural end to a Roman weekend.

Some important events that happened here in history

The history of Teatro Vascello can be told in dates. On May 4, 1989 the hall opened with Tadeusz Kantor and Teatr Cricot 2's I Shall Never Return: a statement of intent, because Kantor was one of the most radical names on the European stage. In the early 1990s Raúl Ruiz, the Pontedera research center and contemporary American and French dance came through. In May 1996 the Extraordinario festival presented 16 young companies from all over Italy. In 1998 the Ministry recognized La Fabbrica dell'Attore as a Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione, and the same year Vascello coproduced a show with the Berliner Ensemble, the theater founded by Brecht. In spring 2001 co-founder Giancarlo Nanni was the first Italian invited to work and teach at the Actors Studio in New York. In 2003 the Premio Valentino Zeichen for poetry was created, and in 2004 the Sala Studio opened. In January 2010 Nanni died and direction passed to Manuela Kustermann. For more than 20 years the Romaeuropa Foundation has brought part of its festival to Vascello. Too Late fits this line of contemporary and international theater: a Norwegian text born in China as an opera, arrived in Italy as a spoken play, produced between Genoa and Turin and presented in Rome.

Accessibility, students and practical information

Teatro Vascello publishes an accessibility section on its website, to be checked before buying for information on entrances, reserved seats and services.

With students

Too Late is a valuable show for anyone studying Ibsen, contemporary drama or Scandinavian literature: a text by a living Nobel laureate, set against a classic of the school curriculum. Themes and language make it suitable for adults and high school students.

Punctuality

In a show lasting one hour and 10 minutes, built on silences and pauses, coming in late disturbs everyone. Leave with time to spare, especially if you're taking the bus in the evening.

April in Rome

The first half of April is one of the best times for Rome: long days, mild temperatures, parks in bloom. Evenings can still be cool, so bring a jacket for the trip back.

Who has passed through Too Late by Jon Fosse with Anna Bonaiuto at Teatro Vascello, April 6 to 11, 2027

Some of the most important names in contemporary theater have crossed the Vascello stage and, even earlier, the history of the company that founded it. At Teatro La Fede, the first home in the 1970s, came saxophonist Steve Lacy, composer John Cage, French director Gérard Gelas and the Living Theatre, and Memè Perlini and Giuliano Vasilicò came out of the same scene. At Vascello, since 1989, there have been Tadeusz Kantor with Cricot, Raúl Ruiz, the Pontedera center, Teatri Uniti, Moni Ovadia, Carlo Cecchi, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Teatro Valdoca and Pippo Delbono, and for dance Enzo Cosimi, Sosta Palmizi, Virgilio Sieni and Wim Vandekeybus. Among the international masters, Bob Wilson and Peter Brook, who presented Beckett's Happy Days here with Natasha Parry. Manuela Kustermann, actress and artistic director, is the constant presence in this story. From April 6 to 11, 2027 Vascello welcomes Anna Bonaiuto, who shared with Carlo Cecchi the Hedda Gabler recalled in the presentation and the set of Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, and with her Thea Dellavalle, Irene Petris, Roberta Ricciardi, Emanuele Righi and Giuseppe Sartori, sound designer Franco Visioli, set designer Francesco Esposito and costume designer Marta Balduinotti. And with them, ideally, Jon Fosse, Du Wei, Henrik Ibsen and his Nora, who after almost a century and a half comes back to question the door she closed.

Frequently asked questions about Too Late at Teatro Vascello

When is Too Late on at Teatro Vascello?

Too Late by Jon Fosse, with Anna Bonaiuto, is at Teatro Vascello from April 6 to 11, 2027: from Tuesday the 6th to Friday the 9th at 21:00, Saturday the 10th at 19:00, Sunday the 11th at 17:00. The show runs one hour and 10 minutes.

Who acts in Too Late with Anna Bonaiuto?

In Too Late Anna Bonaiuto plays Nora, and with her on stage are Irene Petris, Roberta Ricciardi, Emanuele Righi and Giuseppe Sartori. Translation and direction are by Thea Dellavalle, in a project conceived with Irene Petris.

What is Jon Fosse's Too Late about?

Too Late tells of an elderly Nora who, years after leaving her husband and children to become a painter, goes back over her life while her memories take shape on stage. The text is in dialogue with Ibsen's A Doll's House and began as an opera libretto.

Do you need to know A Doll's House to see Too Late?

You can follow Too Late without having read Ibsen, but knowing the ending of A Doll's House, with Nora leaving her husband's house and closing the door, helps you catch the echo the direction brings back several times during the show.

Has Too Late been staged in Italy before?

Jon Fosse's Nora Too Late began as the libretto for the opera by Chinese composer Du Wei, which premiered in Tianjin in 2014 and then in Norway, and has never been staged in Italy. The Vascello show is a spoken version by Dellavalle and Petris.

Where do you buy tickets for Too Late?

Tickets for Too Late are sold from the show page on the Teatro Vascello website, which links to the authorized presale network, or at the box office at Via Giacinto Carini 78. Prices are on the theater's official channels.

How do you get to Teatro Vascello?

Teatro Vascello, at Via Giacinto Carini 78 in Monteverde Vecchio, is reached by bus 75, which stops in front of the entrance, by lines 44, 710, 870 and 871, or by train from Ostiense to Quattro Venti station.

My final tip on Too Late

Too Late brings together three reasons to go out on an April evening: a text by Nobel winner Jon Fosse never seen in Italy, a direct dialogue with Ibsen's A Doll's House, and Anna Bonaiuto as a Nora looking back on her life. In our view it's best to go without expecting a plot to follow, ready to listen to pauses and repetitions like a score, and after brushing up on Ibsen's ending. Book early, sit close to the stage, arrive with time to spare: Fosse, Dellavalle's direction and a great actress will do the rest.

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