The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema

Client: Teatro Stabile del Veneto
Year: 2025
Location: Padua, IT
Category: Lighting Design

A selection of lighting atmospheres and visual transitions from The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema, Martin Crimp’s rewriting of The Phoenician Women by Euripides, directed by Veronica Cruciani.

The work relocates the tragedy of Thebes into a bare classroom-like environment, where war is not directly represented but recalled through bodies, voices, objects and fragmented memory.

Within this space, the myth returns as something already seen and yet never fully understood: a lesson that cannot be learned, an image that keeps repeating, a memory that remains suspended in the bodies of those who have witnessed too much.

The lighting design shaped the stage through institutional clarity, fragile visibility and suspended darkness, constructing a visual field between classroom, archive, testimony and dreamlike recollection.

Credits /
Directed by: Veronica Cruciani
Text: Martin Crimp
Translation: Enrico Luttmann
Lighting Design and Projections: Marco Calzolari
Set Design: Federico Pian
Costume Design: Lauretta Salvagnin
Movement Direction: Norman Quaglierini
Sound Dramaturgy: Veronica Cruciani
Assistant Director: Gianluca Maria Bozzale
Photography: Serena Pea
Performed by: Livia Andruccioli, Valentina Ines Bonato, Tecla Bossi, Leonardo Capaldi, Cecilia Catellani, Massimo Ghiro, Alice Maffei, Gabriele Pomettini, Linda Iris Posani, Pierluigi Rotondo, Andrea Roversi
Produced by: Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale