Theater

L’alba dopo la fine della Storia (Dawn after the end of history)

Paolo Di Paolo
  • Thursday 18 September 2025 - 20:00

Teatro Verdi di Gorizia

100 minutes


text Paolo Di Paolo
direction and dramaturgy Giacomo Pedini

with (in alphabetical order) 
Primož Ekart (Viktor)
Francesco Migliaccio (Emiliano)
Woody Neri (Franco)
Alberto Pirazzini (Tenente)
Camilla Semino Favro (Monika)
Matilde Vigna (Gloria, Fake Gorbacëv) 

set design Alice Vanini
costumes Gianluca Sbicca and Francesca Novati

music Cristian Carrara 
performed in a recording by FVG Orchestra
conductor Paolo Paroni
live cinema and video direction Stefano Bergomas
dramaturg Jacopo Giacomoni

lights Stefano Laudato
sound Corrado Cristina
assistant director Diana Manea
language coach Francesco Borchi 

stage manager Alberto Antonel
stagehand and set designer Elisabetta Ferrandino
video technique Marco Falanga
chief electrician Ivan Bortolus
electrician Enrico Mansutti
props master Gaia Agozzino
make-up and hairstyling Nicole Tomaini
video services Entract Multimedia
tailoring and additional staff Servizi Teatrali srl
sets made at Emilia Romilia Teatro Fondazione and Delta Studios
costumes made by Bàste srls
mask made by VIVA FX
Materiale Teche Rai licensed by Rai Com S.p.A.

co-ordination and staging Stefano Laudato 

production Associazione Mittelfest

photo © Luca A. d’Agostino – Phocus Agency

What to do when History does not go as expected? What promises were those of peace, prosperity and freedom of 1989? Wasn’t the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union supposed to open an endless era of prosperity and justice? And the collapse of Yugoslavia, with its whirlwind of violence and madness, what was that? Just an ‘accident’? Monika, the author, Franco, the salesman-show-off, Emiliano, the actor, Tenente, the deserter, Gloria, the survivor, Viktor, a witness, are missing, fighting, lying, loving and wandering through the dreams and horrors of the 1990s, always searching for their place and meaning in the world. But the globe spins and confuses – and it will spin faster and faster: how do you know where you are, who you are, and what awaits you as this livid dawn rises after the end of History? Do their fears, their desires, their lies and truths still matter, or are they as evanescent as ours seem to us?

The third and autonomous part of the trilogy Inabili alla morte/Nezmožni umreti (Unfit for death), which covers twentieth-century European history from the perspective of the East-West border, L’alba dopo la fine della Storia (Dawn after the end of history) tells, between theatre and live cinema, between self-evident truths and blatant fakes, the exciting and ambiguous leap into the void of the 1990s.

Third part of the trilogy Inabili alla morte/Nezmožni umreti

Performed in Italian with Slovenian and English surtitles

Show with strobe lights and smoke on stage