PILLOLE DI ME – Alessandro Benvenuti

About the event

"Pillole di me" ("Pills of me") is a comic memoir written and performed by Alessandro Benvenuti. It is a mix of comic pieces, some acted and some read aloud, in which he talks about the fun he has found in living a life built on comedy.

Benvenuti describes the pieces as small pills that protect the brain and its cousin, the soul, from the ugliness of everyday existence. He says he could have called the show "cavalli di battaglia" (signature pieces), the way many colleagues name a recital of their best-known monologues, but chose not to, since there are already too many battles in the world today.

He calls the pills made of lively, natural herbs grown in the vegetable gardens of his own home, and hopes they offer some relief to anyone who wants to take them for an evening.

Production: Compagnia Umberto Orsini SRL.

Typical weather

No forecast yet. In November Viareggio averages 15° by day and 9° at night, with rain on about 15 days of the month.

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Getting to Viareggio

By car, leave the A12 at the Viareggio-Camaiore exit; the Viareggio–Lucca link road joins the A11 Florence motorway. Viareggio station is on the Genoa–Pisa line and is the terminus of the line to Lucca and Florence, with regional trains towards Pisa, La Spezia, Lucca and Florence. From Pisa airport, the PisaMover shuttle runs to Pisa Centrale in about 5 minutes, where you change to a train for Viareggio.

Parking: On-street parking in Viareggio is mostly paid blue-line parking, run for the Comune by MoVer (Mobilità Versilia). Rates vary by zone; pay at the meters or with the MoVer app. The signs on site always apply.

About Viareggio

Viareggio is the largest town on the Versilia coast, a resort of about 60,000 people with an entirely sandy shoreline on the Ligurian Sea.

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