Pictures of the staged reading at the RomaEuropa festival.
An ordinary family is stuck in a house. Not a big house, ordinary.
A family like so many, maybe not much money, just average.
They all need space for themselves.
How do you define that personal space?
Where does our commonality end?
Who are this ordinary family?
And how can you save the other if you cannot even save yourself?
A modern tragedy without an escape.
In the past two years, many families have fallen into financial difficulties, familial tensions have escalated.
The violence, the anger, and the social distance have increased.
Do we still have hope?
For Il disperato (The desperate), Wunderbaum explores how a person arrives at an act of desperation.
The question begs itself: when do we call something a monstrous act?
French playwright François Mauriac says:
What is that, a monster? I try to describe figures in which the sublime and the repulsive, the lowest impulses and the highest goals, are inextricably linked. Those are my monsters.
In 2022, the performance will be staged as a theatrical reading in Italy at the RomaEuropa festival in Rome, Teatro Arti e Spettacolo in L’Aquila, and Zona K in Milan.
The premiere will follow in 2023.

By
- Marleen Scholten
Acting
- Marleen Scholten
- Alessandro Riceci
- Ludovica Callerio
- Elisabetta Bruni
Dramaturgy
- Dafne Niglio
scenography
- Maarten van Otterdijk
Producer
- Wunderbaum
- Associazione TRAK
- Theater Rotterdam
Special thanks to
- RomaEuropa
- Zona K
- Arti e Spettacolo
- Tiziana Colla
- Paolo Aniello
- Paolo Giulini (criminoloog)
- Roberto Bezzi (verantwoordelijke afdeling educatie huis van Bewaring Milaan)
With the support of
- IntercettAzioni - Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia
- Residenza Spazio Nobelperlapace / Arti e Spettacolo L'Aquila
Past dates
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February 2023
10
Zona K
Milaan -
February 2023
09
Zona K
Milaan -
November 2022
26
Teatro Arti e Spettacolo
L'Aquila -
November 2022
10
RomaEuropa Festival
Rome -
November 2022
09
RomaEuropa Festival
Rome

Current projects
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Plein / Praça -
John and Gena -
Boze Bejaarden