The vital force of theatrical performances, their popularity, the sometimes difficult lives of the actors and other great protagonists of the world of 'ludi' in Rome.

These are just some of the themes proposed by the exhibition, which aims to go 'beyond' the scene, offering a 'dramatic' cut in the philological sense: a living reconstruction, in which the same protagonists of the ancient scenes - present in ad hoc films - will involve the public to relive the atmospheres that could be felt in the steps of the great Roman theatres, which reflected - divided by orders - the social and gender hierarchies of republican and imperial Rome. A story that starts from the Greek, Magna Graecia, Etruscan and Italic roots of the Roman theatre, from the religious origin of the 'ludus' and the first wooden stages, to arrive at the splendor of the frons scenee of the great theaters for tens of thousands of spectators, architectures which - like the forum or the temple - would characterize the forma urbis of the empire.