rural theatre
Since 2021, driven by the need to start from seedlings, from the soil, from the seasonality of cultural production, Bocchi/Scarrocchia has launched a cultural project in central Italy, in the countryside of Recanati, in the Marche region. Inside a former farmhouse immersed in the rural landscape, equipped with an indoor theatre hall and an outdoor arena, the company has developed a contemporary artistic program within an agricultural environment, through contemporary theatre performances, live art, workshops, labs, and community dinners.
Within this context, the Rural Theatre project was born. It explores the relationship between memory and the rural landscape, involving local communities through interviews and workshops in a delicate collective rewriting of memory.
The project focuses on mezzadria, a centuries‑old sharecropping contract widely practiced in the Marche and central Italy until the 1970s, which shaped the rural landscape and social relations for centuries. The elderly inhabitants of the area are the last living witnesses of that era.
The project gathers their memories to create narratives oriented toward the present through the language of the performing arts, experimenting with new ways of remembering today. From this process emerged the performances Tradizione Contemporanea (2025) and Rural Theatre (2026).
This is rural theatre: the memory beneath our feet, a very long root—resilient and constantly evolving.
WORKSHOP 2026/2027
If you want to immerse yourself in a landscape that speaks.
If you want to let the stories of the Marche countryside flow through you, ensuring they do not fade away.
If you feel that memory is not something to be merely preserved, but something to be lived.
If you want to practice listening, improvisation, movement, and connection.
If you want to be part of a community keeping a long, resilient, and ever-evolving root alive.
This journey is for you.
It is your presence that keeps the memory alive.
If you are there, it continues.
RURAL THEATER WORKSHOP 2026/2027
12 sessions, one Sunday a month, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, running from October 2026 to September 2027.
A shared dinner follows each session.
Open to everyone, with or without prior theater experience.
Registration opens September 15th!