In His Motion He Is Still

The magic of the Theatre lives not only on the stage but also in its most secret and inaccessible spaces. The theatrical journey par excellence at the Teatro della Pergola. In its movement and stillness the Compagnia delle Seggiole offers a journey through the Pergola’s 350 years of history, gathering the echoes of many voices, of famous actors and obscure stagehands, of inventors, directors, impresarios, divas, singers, machinists, attendants, runners, supernumeraries, nobles, kept women, bourgeois, critics, troublesome audience members. Like a living organism, the theatre is alive at every moment, even in its least accessible spaces: in the workshops, near the stage machinery, in the basements and storage rooms. There the stories still resonate of those who dedicated their lives to this burning passion. Without appearing on the posters, without leaving traces of themselves in history books. Le Seggiole reveal to the public the secret places that were once the seat of the “City of Theatre”: a large self-sufficient factory where all the crafts of the stage took place. Where people lived, day and night; a crossroads, a meeting place and centre of civilisation, an agora, yesterday as today, of Florence.