DEBUT · NEW DIRECTION
NEI LETTI DEGLI ALTRI · ROMA
JOELEANASTASI
Director · Playwright · Actor
«I come from where the city makes noise: I write to give these sounds a form».
In the making. On stage. On tour.
VUCCIRÌA TEATRO TRILOGY
TRE RITI SULL'AMORE · ON TOUR
NEW DIRECTION
NEI LETTI DEGLI ALTRI · ON TOUR
02 — SELECTED WORKSPRACTICE.
PRACTICE.
ARCHIVE.
MEMORY.
012026/2027
DIRECTION · JOELE ANASTASI
NEI LETTI DEGLI ALTRI
from La Gilda del Mac Mahon by G. Testori — with Noemi Apuzzo.
022026/2027
PLAYWRITING / DIRECTION · JOELE ANASTASI
TRE RITI SULL'AMOREBY VUCCIRÌA TEATRO
Three works, three stations in a descent into the contemporary human.
032017/2027
PLAYWRITING / DIRECTION · JOELE ANASTASI
IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONEBY VUCCIRÌA TEATRO
Sicily, 1940. Concetta is bartered by her father and entrusted to Donna Anna, keeper of the village brothel.
042014/2027
PLAYWRITING / DIRECTION · JOELE ANASTASI
BATTUAGEBY VUCCIRÌA TEATRO
Sex becomes the only instrument of mediation between human beings.
052013/2027
PLAYWRITING / DIRECTION · JOELE ANASTASI
IO, MAI NIENTE CON NESSUNO AVEVO FATTOBY VUCCIRÌA TEATRO
Sicily, late 1980s. She dreams of leaving the island. He dreams of freely loving a man.
062025/2027
DIRECTION · JOELE ANASTASI
ILIAD
THE SONG OF THETIS
03 — ABOUT
JOELE ANASTASI IS A DIRECTOR, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR. HIS WORK MOVES THROUGH BODY, WRITING, SPACE AND THEATRE RESEARCH.
In 2013 he co-founds the company Vuccirìa Teatro. His path combines original writing and stage research centred on the body and on language as a system of relation.
He has developed experiences and collaborations in international contexts, including a multi-year work as performer with Angélica Liddell, the encounters with Claudio Tolcachir and Romeo Castellucci, and participation in research projects and contexts (Biennale Teatro di Venezia, Teatre Lliure, Festival TransAmériques – Montréal, Festival d'Avignon).
The humanities of the margins are at the centre of his imagination, crossing Mediterranean magical realism, myth and tragic devices read in the present, bringing body, desire and community to their points of fracture.
He is co-founder of the international collective Palazzo Suburbio (Italy/Spain/Portugal).
ACTOR
04 — UPCOMING DATES
UPCOMING DATES
25 & 27
SEP 2026
ILIAD
Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella
Roma
15
OCT 2026
ILIAD
ENG VERSION
Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella
Roma
21
OCT 2026
ILIAD
Cambridge University
Cambridge (UK)