Seconda Classe

Seconda Classe is the new show by Controcanto Collettivo, a Roman company founded in 2011 as a continuation of a laboratory led by Clara Sancricca and which, year after year, is conquering the Italian theater scene by bringing to the stage, using an essential and refined language, original and profound narratives about humanity.

Seconda classe is an exploration of the theme of wealth, luxury, and its exclusivity. That some have a lot and others very little or even nothing is a paradox in which we live, to the point that we would be ready to be shocked (some even alarmed) by its possible disappearance. This centuries-old habit of injustice has meant that the effort to eradicate it (which has historically existed in good theories and often bad practices) has been replaced by the attempt to inhabit it and, possibly, ride it, each according to their own means, steps, and possibilities.

From this perspective, the desirability of a good is not tied solely to its nature, aesthetics, or utility, but to the desire and guarantee that that good remains the privilege of the few, and extending the possibility of enjoying it to others is detrimental to its desirability. Privilege, in short, to remain such, must be "exclusive"—that is, excluding—and therefore reserved for the few.

The first class exists in function of the second, and without the latter, it would have no measure of its wealth, because the true content of wealth seems to be, first and foremost, the certainty—and the inexplicable relief that comes from it—that others have less.

Conceived and directed by Clara Sancricca

Starring Federico Cianciaruso, Riccardo Finocchio, Martina Giovanetti, Andrea Mammarella, Emanuele Pilonero, and Clara Sancricca

Assistant director Elena Contrino

Set design by Michelle Paoli

Lighting design by Martin Emanuel Palma

Costumes by Moris Verdiani

Production by Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria

Running time: 1 hour and 10 minutes