Campania Teatro Festival - Castel Volturno Stage

The Campania Teatro Festival in Castel Volturno

The Campania Teatro Festival is the most important theatre event in the Campania region: a month of performances, debuts, and projects that animate Naples and numerous towns across the region every summer. Directed by Ruggero Cappuccio and organized by the Fondazione Campania dei Festival, the festival has a widespread and itinerant vocation that takes it far beyond the stages of the regional capital. One of its most significant stops is in Castel Volturno, in the heart of the Pinetamare Urban Park, in the province of Caserta.

Theatre as a social laboratory

The Castel Volturno stage has a precise identity: it is dedicated to social and participatory theatre, born from work with local youth. The performances hosted at the Pinetamare Urban Park involve young people from Castel Volturno, Grazzanise, and Mondragone, who take the stage with scripts they wrote themselves during extensive workshops. It is a form of theatre that starts from direct experience, the emotions, and the daily challenges of the so-called Generation Z, transforming them into a choral scenic action.

An open-air stage on the Domitian coast

The Pinetamare Urban Park offers a suggestive setting: a green space just a few steps from the sea, in one of the most populous areas of the Domitian coast. The choice to bring this major regional festival here is no coincidence: it is a way to introduce a wide audience to theatre and to restore cultural centrality to a territory often defined only by its challenges. The evenings, usually held in July, combine the artistic quality of the festival with the participation of the local community.

Part of a major regional project

The Castel Volturno stage should not be seen as an isolated event, but as a piece of a mosaic that, on the same day, may encompass the Royal Palace of Naples, the Bipiani in Ponticelli, the Teatro Tedér, and the villages of the Cilento region. It is this widespread dimension that makes the Campania Teatro Festival a unique experience in the Italian landscape: a festival that unites territories and languages, from the historic centre of Naples to the suburbs and coastal towns like Castel Volturno.

Why you should attend

• Live theatre performances in a green open-air space, just a short walk from the sea.
• Social theatre projects that give a voice to the youth of the Caserta area.
• The prestige of a regional showcase directed by Ruggero Cappuccio.
• An opportunity to experience culture in Castel Volturno, in the province of Caserta.