In Metropolis, a gigantic 21st century city, society is divided into a minority with power and the means of production which, oblivious to their own tyranny, enjoy life in the eternal Gardens, and the workers, who live in subterranean mazes, condemned to misery and slavery, and handle enormous machines for all their work. One day, Freder, the son of Fredersen, the owner of the city, is blown away by the beauty of a young girl, Maria; he pursues her and discovers the poverty and suffering of those who live in the underground of Metropolis.

This adaptation of Fritz Lang’s film (1927) is a multidisciplinary stage show that brings together theatre, music, dance, audiovisuals, special effects… absolute art with seventeen actors and dancers on stage, an original score and the universal language of gesture. Metropolis is an unforgettable experience.

Based on the novel of his then wife Thea von Harbou, master Fritz Lang made the most ambitious and expensive project of the famous production company UFA, one of the masterpieces of silent film, a reference in science fiction film history to the day and a fundamental film of German expressionism. With a stunning aesthetic quality and a relentless view of the class struggle, the alienation of the worker and the oppression of power, Metropolis is a ferocious criticism of a machine-ised world and an apocalyptic vision of the society of the future.

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