FLIPT edition XXVI

The Intercultural Festival Laboratory of Theatre Practice (FLIPT) is a pedagogical intercultural project recurring every year, organized by Teatro Potlach and held in its premises in Fara Sabina. It is realized with the cooperation of I.S.T.A. (International School of Theatre Anthropology), directed by Eugenio Barba, and together with the three universities of Rome: La Sapienza, Roma Tre and Tor Vergata.The project starts in 2000 from a meeting between the master Eugenio Barba, director of Odin Teatret and founder of Theatre Anthropology, and Pino Di Buduo, artistic director of Teatro Potlach and permanent member of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme of Paris.The Festival purposes are:-to create a high quality cultural event, capable of presenting the most fertile and stimulating realities in the international theatrical world, through circulation and mobility of the artists;- to propose high quality performances, following a logic that is both international and of local growth;- to promote the encounter with the new languages of performance andmultidiscipline, creating workshops, lectures and meetings with artists and national and international personalities;- to promote the creation of a new audience and the promotion, through art, of the local artistic excellences;- to enhance knowledge in the citizens, giving back quality and value to the local identity of Fara Sabina, to the province of Rieti and to the region Lazio.

The FLIPT - Intercultural Laboratory Festival of Theatrical Practices reaches its 26th edition in 2026, the year in which the Potlach Theater celebrates its 50th anniversary. This is an extraordinary event that we will celebrate in grand style. The FLIPT will feature a packed program: high-quality performances, masterclasses with international masters of the performing arts, theater, music, dance, and visual arts workshops, meetings, readings, installations, book presentations, and international round tables.THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM36 Performances with 41 performances4 Practical Workshops1 Masterclass with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley (Odin Teatret)1 Round Table with professors and artists from various universities around the world.The 2026 Festival will host 36 performances (with 41 repeat performances) of contemporary theater, dance, music, and new technologies by top-level companies and artists from 19 countries: Greece, Denmark, Iran, England, Canada, Germany, Spain, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, South Africa, Greenland, Hungary, Brazil, Japan, Bulgaria, India, France, and Italy. Interculturality, for a fruitful exchange between culture and theatrical techniques, is the foundation of the Festival, which each year hosts renowned companies alongside promising young artists and directors from around the world. These high-quality performances have been acclaimed by international audiences and critics, as well as new productions and debuts created specifically for the Festival. In 2026, we invited performances from South Africa and Greenland (countries on opposite poles, about two days' travel apart), from Brazil (where Teatro Potlach has toured more than 30 times and where we have had the greatest impact on the theater scene), to Japan, from India to Iran. And then there are numerous European countries, to gain a comprehensive picture of the theater scene on our continent, with a focus on Greece.