Amsterdam – The Korego Theater Group celebrates ten years of artistic activity and theatrical research by returning to a performance that most deeply reflects its creative identity: “Pinocchia”. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Collodi, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amsterdam will host the performance at Crea on March 14 at 7:30 p.m.

The production also pays tribute to renowned author Stefano Benni, whose writing has long captured the contradictions of contemporary society with clarity and irony. The staging unfolds in a modern world where the boundary between reality and artificiality has grown increasingly fragile, until it dissolves altogether. It is a world in which fiction often appears more human than humanity itself, and where masks become refuge, protection and identity.

We live in a society that has lost the simplicity of nature, where self-acceptance has become the exception rather than the rule. Aesthetics have replaced ethics, appearance has overtaken being, and judgment has silenced listening. In this disoriented landscape, Pinocchia becomes a metaphor for modern humanity: fragile, imperfect and searching for truth. Through mistakes and falls, the character reminds us that humanity lies not in perfection, but in the ability to choose, to feel and to return to authenticity.

With this production, Korego celebrates ten years of theatre as a necessary, poetic and political act: an invitation to look at ourselves without filters, to restore value to fragility and to rediscover an ethics of feeling before seeing.