Fabulamundi New Voices Italian partners PAV have launched their first creative workshop: Teatri di guerra, a dramaturgy and acting lab led by Roberto Scarpetti with the actors and actresses of the specialization course of Teatro di Roma. Starting from the collective reading of Aeschylus’ I sette contro Tebe, from the vision of Teatro di guerra directed by Mario Martone and from the reading of the volume of the same name, the workshop is structured in a four-week path of theatrical writing and acting. The first week will be dedicated to the analysis of the text by Aeschylus and of the key themes of Martone’s film. Martone’s 1998 long feature is extremely topical, not only due to the fact that the situation of Ukraine invaded by Russia can be superimposed on the war in the former Yugoslavia, but above all because the multiple theatres of war narrated in the film have not changed today compared to to the Italian reality of the late 90s: the violence of the cities; the war within the cultural system and the difficulties in carrying out an artistic project in a world conditioned by power relations; the small internal wars, the clashes, the doubts, the crises that condition the work of a group of artists, in which individuality must somehow give way to the community.