Marcovaldo explores the life of Marcovaldo, an unskilled worker living with his family in a drab industrial city. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an incorrigible schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbours, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones.

Combining farce with fantasy and mixing comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life, Marcovaldo is a highly visual theatrical exploration of some of the oft-overlooked elements of modern urban living: nature, pollution, hardship, distraction, relationship and simplicity.

Critics

"Affectionate and gratifying...a miraculous presentation of the entanglement between fiction and reality."

— C for Culture"

 "The beauty of this performance lay in its creative use of simple materials (like magazines and newspapers) to unleash the vast possibilities of imagination."

 — Muse

 "Theatre du Pif's Marcovaldo at the Fringe Festival reminded us how stage and life are reflections; story is the mirror. Northern Italy became southern China. National and ethnic boundaries dissolved in universality."

— Arts Vox