Abano Teatro

At the Marconi Theatre, "Third Half" is staged, freely inspired by the novel of the same name, dramatization by Lidia Ravera and Emanuela Giordano. Starring Lucia Vasini, Paolo Hendel, Viola Lucio, Marco Mavaracchio.
After sixty, anything can happen. Especially if you are married to Costanza. Domenico and Costanza, husband and wife “separated but close,” face the transition to old age with opposite spirits: she, impulsive and visionary, wants to transform it into the most precious time of life; he, more composed and ironic, tries to keep up with her, amidst vital outbursts and twists. In a comedic and affectionate game of reversals, the two challenge conventions, roles, and certainties, supported by a disbelieving son and an engaged young spectator.
An explosion of jokes and humanity, where humor does not trivialize but illuminates. Not the usual story of a bourgeois couple in crisis, but a disarmed and ironic hymn to the art of aging with intact desires and a forward-looking gaze. Starring this unconventional couple, are two top-notch performers of Italian comic theatre, Lucia Vasini and Paolo Hendel, directed by Emanuela Giordano.
Based on the novel by Lidia Ravera, a tender and startling comedy about the time that remains and what one decides to make of it, about what can still be reinvigorated when it seems too late: energies, affections, desires, stubbornness. The jokes come from a vital melancholy, entrusted to performers capable of holding together irony and fragility, poetry and clumsiness, and of giving us deeply human, contradictory, recognizable characters.
An invitation to look at old age not as an orderly epilogue, but as an open, unstable, and surprising space, to inhabit with courage.

SINGLE TICKETS FOR PERFORMANCES
orchestra seats € 22.00 - gallery seats € 20.00 (ticket pre-sale fee: 10% of ticket cost).

TICKET PRE-SALE from November 23, 2026: at the IAT Office in Abano Terme tel. 049 8669055, online at vivaticket.com and related sales points.

SALE on the day of the show at the theatre box office from 8:00 p.m.