Home

2026/2027 theatre season: Terzo tempo

An explosion of wit and humanity, where humour does not trivialise but illuminates. Not the usual story of a middle-class couple in crisis, but a disarming and ironic ode to the art of growing old with one’s desires intact and one’s gaze fixed on the future. Playing this thoroughly unconventional couple are two leading lights of Italian comedy theatre, Lucia Vasini and Paolo Hendel, directed here by Emanuela Giordano.

Venue: Auditorium Biagio Marin, Via Marchesini, 31 - Grado

Website: https://ertfvg.it/spettacoli/terzo-tempo/

 

Thursday 25 February 2027 – 8.45 pm

performed in italian

Domenico and Costanza, a husband and wife who are ‘separated but close’, face the transition to old age with contrasting attitudes: she, impulsive and visionary, wants to turn it into the most precious time of her life; he, more level-headed and ironic, tries to keep up with her, amidst bursts of vitality and unexpected twists. In a comic and affectionate game of role reversals, the pair challenge conventions, roles and certainties, supported by an incredulous son and a young, engaged female audience member.

Based on the novel by Lidia Ravera, this is a tender and unsettling comedy about the time we have left and what we choose to make of it, about what can still be brought back into play when it seems too late: energy, affection, desires, stubbornness. The humour comes with a twist and springs from a vital melancholy, entrusted to performers capable of blending irony and fragility, poetry and awkwardness, and of bringing to life deeply human, contradictory and recognisable characters.

by Lidia Ravera

loosely based on the novel of the same name, published by Bompiani

adapted for the stage by Lidia Ravera and Emanuela Giordano

directed and lit by Emanuela Giordano

starring Lucia Vasini, Paolo Hendel, Viola Lucio, Marco Mavaracchio

set design: Stefano Zullo

costumes designed by Simona Dondoni – Franco Parenti Theatre costume workshop

music: Tommaso di Giulio and Leonardo Ceccarelli

co-production: Agidi srl | Franco Parenti Theatre

Information

Tel: 0431 85834 / biglietteria@ertfvg.it

Municipal Library

Tel: 0431 82630

Culture Office

Tel: 0431 898269

Tickets and advance sales

BUY ONLINE

TICKETS:

Full price €24.00

Concession €21.00

Concession for over-65s, under-25s and ERT season ticket holders.

GRADO THEATRE TICKETS:

Single-price seat €5,00

Free admission for theatre season ticket holders

ADVANCE BOOKINGS:

Online from Monday 19 October at ertfvg.it

At the Auditorium two days before the performance from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm and on the day of the performance from 5.30 pm until the start of the performance.