Quartieri dell'Arte Festival Città Rivoluzioni

The Quartieri dell'Arte Festival is one of the most important playwriting Festivals in Italy. It wa established in 1997. The Festival has been called the "Silicon Valley of playwriting" by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and has had some of the World leading playwrights under commission in its 25 year history. Playwrights whose works received their World premieres at the Festival include Tony Kushner, Alessandro Baricco, Lucia Moisio, Jon Fosse, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Tiziano Scarpa, Walter Siti, the Presnyakov Brothers, Gian Maria Cervo, Michel Marc Bouchard, Marius von Mayenburg, Rafael Spregelburd, Albert Ostermaier, Manuela Infante, Juan Mayorga and many others. The Festival has also worked on the hybridisation of theatre and visual arts hosting renowned masters such as John Bock, Jochen Dehn, Luigi Ontani, Roxy in the Box, Gianni Dessì, Nicola Samorì, Nicola Verlato.
The Festival has made an inclusive, versatile and open reputation by working with directors, artists and companies as diverse as Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Stein, Vittorio Storaro, Arpad Schilling, La Fura dels Baus and Gabriele Mainetti.
In recent years the organisation has experimented with hybrid forms mixing film, theatre and installations and has won a grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2020 for the international theatre-film coproduction "A Shakespeare/Marlowe Digital Diptych" written by Gian Maria Cervo and directed by Nikolay Kolyada. A new theatre, film and visual art cycle project on Cecco del Caravaggio was developed in 2021 involving playwrights of different generations and different stages of their careers (the youngest ones being 13 years old).
The organisation has been financed by the Italian Ministry of Culture since 2003 and was beneficiary of the EU-funded project EU Collective Plays! and is currently associate partner in the EU-funded project "The Ways of the Heroes".