La Commedia Divina
November 22, 2025
2pm ET
Online
Tickets: $15
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Purchase a livestream ticket to La Commedia Dvinia (The Divine Comedy) by Teatro Patologico, conceived and directed by Dario D’Ambrosi. Audience members who tune into the livestream will be able to switch between different camera positions throughout the show.
About La Commedia Dvinia: While evoking the atmospheres of Dante’s original, this adaptation explores the challenges faced by people with disabilities, highlighting the societal obstacles they often encounter. It particularly emphasizes the struggles of those with mental health conditions, who are frequently marginalized by society.
In this version, the “hell” experienced by the actors from Teatro Patologico becomes a tangible reality, a powerful metaphor for the discrimination and exclusion they face. Purgatory is reimagined as a visionary transition between the struggles of Hell and the possibilities of Heaven. And it is in Paradise—culminating in a final, unexpected twist—that the boundary between those with mental health conditions and the broader population is erased, offering a vision of a world without barriers or borders.
As with all productions by Teatro Patologico, D’Ambrosi places actors with mental health conditions at the heart of the performance, making a compelling argument that “no science can determine the full extent of the human mind’s potential.”