Company’s history
Factory Compagnia Transadriatica established in 2009 with the idea of putting together the skills, aspirations, and dreams of three artists and friends. The company mainly carries out activities of production of shows, implementation of international cooperation projects, organization of workshops, theatre seasons and two festivals: the international festival of arts and theater for the new generations KIDS, dedicated to families and tout-public audience, and I teatri della Cupa, dedicated to the contemporary scene.
The company has been touring Italy from the very beginning of its story, participating in the most important theatre seasons and festivals with several productions.
Some of these productions, thanks to the absence of language barriers are perfectly suited to touring abroad and meeting foreign audiences.
Factory's productions have been awarded both in Italy, with the most important awards in Italy for the theatre for children and new generations, and abroad.
Company’s objectives
Factory’s productions arise from the belief that theatre, treasuring all possible languages, remains a lively place of research, a lens for looking at the world and describing it in the infinite possible ways.
Factory often explores the theme of identity, combining theater, dance and other genres and believing that theater for the new generations must be able to deal with issues that are sometimes even uncomfortable, such as fragility, fear, diversity, death. Themes that are part of our lives and as such can be talked about at different levels.
Since 2016, the company carries out an in-depth study of diversity and this has led to the encounter with disability, experiencing the creation of artistic ensembles composed of disabled and non-disabled actors with the production of Diary of an Ugly Ducking, Hubu Re, Peter Pan, (H)Amleto and a European project dedicated to accessibility.
Factory alternates prose and tout public, larger and smaller productions supporting and giving space to the projects of its actors. Among these,“Paloma. Offbeat ballad” and “Little Sushi” two productions with Michela Marrazzi, in which some of the abovementioned themes encounters the art of puppetry.
Awards
2023 - Eolo Award 2023 - best show dedicated to children and teenagers in Italy - Hamelin
2022 - Eolo Award 2022 - mention for Puppet theatre in Italy - Paloma, offbeat ballad
2020 - Eolo Award 2020 - best show of the year in Italy - Mattia and the grandfather
2017 - City of Kotor Jury Prize and the prize for best performer to Francesca De Pasquale at the XXV Kotor Festival of Art for Children in Montenegro - Diary of an ugly duckling
2017 - 24th International Art Theater Festival for Children and Youth in Hamedan, Iran: best performance, best music to Paul Coletta, best stage designer to Roberta Dori Puddu, best actor to Luca Pastore, best leading role actress to Francesca De Pasquale, and best playwright and best Director to Tonio De Nitto - Diary of an ugly duckling
Smile, un sorriso… e forse una lacrima
(Smile, a smile… and perhaps a tear)
new production
A poetical show about memories and connections. A story on the border between the here and the hereafter, a tiptoe journey that retraces love beyond time and space thanks to the power of memories. Smile is a show that takes shape from a simple but powerful question: what remains of the people we have loved?
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Age: 7-99
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Additional information:
- language: there is only a voice over, that can be translated and recorded into English
- means of transport: travel by van
- number of people travelling 5/6
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Paloma, ballata controtempo
(Paloma, offbeat ballad)
Eolo Awards 2022
mention for Puppet Theatre
A poetical work on the sense of time, where puppet theatre meets music.
A show with a double level of reading, suitable for an audience of children and adults who have to deal with the passage of time and the search for a meaning in their lives.
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Past international tours/festivals :
Spain (Feten 2023)
Greece (Kilkis 2023),
Turkey (Little Ladies Little Gentlemen 2025)
Next tours: Japan (Ricca ricca* festa 2025).
Age: 6-99
Additional information:
- puppet theatre and music
- language: no text, only a very few words that can be translated. There are Spanish songs, that are always performed in Spanish also when the show is played in Italy.
- it is a performance that can be rearranged also for non-conventional places and to be played outdoor.
- means of transport: plane - the scenography can be transported in just two suitcases and one hand luggage; with some airlines it may be necessary to add an extra seat for the accordion.
- same actress playing in Little Sushi (the two shows can travel together by van)
- number of people travelling 4/5
Piccolo Sushi
(Little Sushi)
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A delicate show about the conflict that each one of us, sooner or later, ends up facing, balanced between the expectations of the society in which we live and the deep desires that inhabit us.
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Age: 6-99
Additional information:
- puppet theatre
- language: no text
- means of transport: van
- number of people travelling 3/4
- same actress playing in Paloma
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Peter Pan
The story of an absence, of a void that often remains unbridgeable, of a time that escapes our remembrance and that sometimes stops, of experiences that make us grow up unwittingly and too soon.
Peter Pan passes through the works of J. Barrie with lightness and enchantment, managing, with the help of video mapping and a perfectly close-knit group of actors, to restore the dream and reality, the game and the adventure, the joy and the nostalgia.
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Age: 5-99
Additional information:
- theatre, dance and video mapping
- language: only a voiceover that can be recorded into English or another language
- means of transport: van
- number of people travelling 7/8
- same ensemble of the "Diary of an ugly duckling" (the two shows can travel together by van)
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Diario di un brutto anatroccolo
(Diary of an ugly duckling)
An adaptation of the fairy tale, telling the story of the diary of a small swan, believed duckling, crossing various stages of life as those told in the original story, through which she discovers herself and her place in the world, realizing diversity as a key and valuable element.
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Past international tours/festivals: Austria, Belgium, France, Spain, The Nederlands ,Turkey, UK, and many others… see the complete list at the bottom of the page
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Age recommendation: 6-99
Additional information:
- theatre and dance
- language: no text
- means of transport: plane possible - the scenography can be transported in four suitcases and one extra-dimensions item
- same ensemble of Peter Pan (the two shows can travel together by van)
- number of people travelling 7/8
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International tours sorted by show (last update April 2025)
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Diary of an Ugly Duckling
The Netherlands > Tour in Schouwburg Concertzaal in Tilburg - Chassé Theater in Breda, DE KOM in Nieuwegein, Leidse Schouwburg in Leiden - Festival de Betovering in Den Haag, Stadsschouwburg de Harmonie / Festival Het Avontuur in Leeuwarden and SPOT in Groningen – 23 october – 3rd november 2024
Belgium > Knokke-Heist Cultuurcentrum - october 2024
Austria > 36th international theatre festival 'Luaga & Losna', Feldkirch – septembre 2024
UK > Wales. Opening Doors - Wale's international theatre festival for young audiences in march 2024, in Cardiff and Aberystwith
Spain > Festival Teatralia in 2023 in Madrid, Parla e Mostoles, Theatre season of Vitoria and Saragozza in 2023 - Mostra de Igualada in 2018, Barcelona in 2018.
France > Theatre season of Montargis in 2023 - Theatre season of Venelle in 2022 - Festival Au bonheur des mômes in 2018
Turkey > Little Ladies Little Gentlemen, Ankara, in 2023
Romania > Festival 100, 1000, 1.000.000 Stories in 2017
Montenegro > XXV Kotor Festival of Art for Children in Montenegro - where in 2017 the show won the City of Kotor Jury Prize and the prize for best performer to Francesca De Pasquale
Iran > 24th International Art Theater Festival for Children and Youth in Hamedan in 2017 - where seven of the most prestigious prizes of the festival were awarded to the show: best performance, best music to Paolo Coletta, best stage designer to Roberta Dori Puddu, best actor to Luca Pastore, best leading role actress to Francesca De Pasquale, and best playwright and best Director to Tonio De Nitto
Switzerland > Theatre season Bellinzona in 2022 - in Ascona in 2019
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Paloma, offbeat Ballad
Turkey > Little Ladies Little Gentlemen, Ankara, in 2025
Greece > 21th International Puppet & Pantomime Festival of Kilkis in 2023
Spain > FETEN, Feria Europea de artes escénicas para niños y niñas di Gijón in 2023
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Cinderella (Repertoire)
Spain > Baleari Islands (Spain), Festival FIET in 2015
Switzerland > Lugano LongLake Festival in 2014
Tunisia > International festival of (Nabeul) Neapolis for Children in 2014
United Kingdom > Edinburgh's Fringe Festival in 2013 (21 shows)
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Midsummer night's dream (Repertoire)
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Macedonia > Skopje, National Theatre in 2016
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