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Inferno (Hell) in Western culture is the place which more than others has inspired preachers, illustrators, painters, sculptors, storytellers, directors, musicians. It is the place of atonement for moral and material faults where the wicked are punished and good triumphs over evil. It is the place of subversion and chaos in the representation of which everything can coexist. However, a depiction of evil as the undisputed kingdom of a sulphurous devil with a tail, horns and pitchfork would be hardly credible today. Hell is here, and it may look a lot like Heaven. It is what pushes us to make every effort to be more attractive, more intelligent, more powerful, more just, stronger, smarter, more responsible, more humble, which pushes us to compete for moral, social, economic and emotional gratifications. Hell is the inevitability of desire, the condemnation of perpetual competition in search of pleasure. Hence the idea of Inferno, a tragedy in the form of comedy – seductive, pleasant, engaging, bright and fun – on the intrusiveness of the ego; both one’s own and others’. As the title suggests, in the version that Roberto Castello brings to the stage at Fabbrica Europa, Inferno will be broken into pieces: INFERNO a pezzi #1, INFERNO a pezzi #2, INFERNO a pezzi #3. Highlighting the work of the performers, it will be presented just as it was created in the rehearsal room—the setting in which the choreographies exist in their optimal condition.