Angelica Bifano

Lost in Macondo was born during the pandemic, when theaters were closed, and we felt the need to get back out into the streets, into towns, into communities.

In that suspended time, we began to engage, listen, and observe what was happening around us.

When the idea of ​​working on One Hundred Years of Solitude, on which the show is loosely based, arose, it seemed natural to imagine the project—together with artistic director Andrea Collavino—in connection with the local areas and the people who inhabit them.

Thus was born a work that seeks out in everyday life what seems inexplicable, surreal, and suddenly out of proportion.

A chance encounter, an accident, an unexpected legacy, a prediction that comes true: small events capable of altering the course of the lives of individuals, but also of families, generations, and towns.

We wanted to recapture the magical component present in the stories of Italian municipalities, to show how much wonder lies hidden in reality.

We’ve been working on this project for five years, and in doing so, we’ve drawn inspiration from the real and miraculous events the locals tell us, from what we see in the villages, from legends, from the novel itself, and from our own personal experiences to construct the various chapters.