Saturday, 7th June, saw the waste-to-energy plant hosting another event: an adaptation of ‘Novecento’, drawn from Alessandro Baricco's monologue, with the POeM Company actors performing before more than 300 people.

The play, produced by the Teatro Stabile di Torino, enhanced by the direction of Gabriele Vacis and the staging and scenery of Roberto Tarasco, took place in the open air on a flatbed trailer, positioned at the base of the structure, where the story of the legendary pianist of the Virginian came to life.

A stage choice that perfectly embodied the spirit of the show, which brings the living essence of space and collective memory to the fore. The staging has encouraged dialogue between actors, audience and installation in a single scenic experience.

Just over thirty years after the show's debut, Vacis returns to tell the story of the pianist born and raised on the ocean, accompanied by the actresses and actors of PoEM theatre company, in a symbolic passing of the baton with the unforgettable Eugenio Allegri, first interpreter of the monologue and teacher of the actors when they were still students at the Scuola del Teatro Stabile di Torino.

The waste-to-energy plant - a place where waste is transformed into energy and heat - hosts a different metamorphosis: the written word becomes voice, body and vision. There's more: an industrial location became a place of artistic production for the whole territory during a special evening in which theatre intertwined with the industrial landscape, giving new light and voice to a story that has been moving audiences around the world for thirty years.