Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Formation1981
TypeTheatre group
Location
  • Cesena, Italy
MembershipRomeo and Claudia Castellucci; Chiara and Paolo Guidi
Websitesocietas.es

The Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (SRS) is an Italian experiential theater company founded in 1981. Its initial development was part of movement in Italian theater which did not require a background in theater but was influenced by rock, poetry, comics, television and more. By the end of the 1990s, the work done by this group had influenced a number of newer groups, winning awards for various works. The performances of this company shuns conventional coherent narrative and focuses more on visual and auditory impact, using silences, word fragments and even animals and machines as performers. The company is based in Cesena, near Bologna, Italy where it has its own theater, but it has performed in various venues in Europe, Asia, Oceana, and the Americas.