Binario di Scambio, since 2014 the Theater Company of the University of Florence, is a specific experimental educational and scientific activity for university students. Founded in the academic year 2006-2007 by Teresa Megale, professor of Performing Arts, it is a permanent creative workshop, open to all enrolled students, which brings together students of different ages and experiences in order to make the most of their artistic inclinations and talents.The Company has taken the name 'Binario di Scambio' (Exchange Track) to emphasize how doing theater is one of the best ways to stimulate curiosity, experiment, train, conceive, invent, and exchange ideas. The experience involves all aspects of the performing arts: from the idea to the representation, from artistic invention to the production and distribution phases, from communication to documentation. Over the years it has been guided by prominent directors: Cristina Pezzoli, Alessio Pizzech, Fabio Cocifoglia, Stefania Stefanin.Binario di Scambio has aroused great interest in the Tuscan and national territory. It collaborates with the Teatro della Pergola, the Teatro Metastasio, the Volterra International Festival of Roman Theater, the Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, the Palazzo Pretorio Museum in Prato, Officina Giovani - Cultural Workshops of the Municipality of Prato, Toscana Spettacolo Foundation, Creativity Festival, Firenze dei Teatri, Rai-Radio 3. It participates in the ceremonies and initiatives promoted by the University.It has to its credit numerous cultural projects. Among these, the video-archive Officina delle Voci_Atelier della creazione giovanile, created with an institutional network with the Municipality of Prato as the lead partner, and financed, following a public call for proposals, by the Department for Youth Policies and the RI_NASCITE project at Officina Giovani-Cultural Workshops, carried out in 2012-2013 together with the Municipality of Prato, promoted and supported by the Department of Youth-Presidency of the Council of Ministers and ANCI. The report was included in the volume Contesti teatrali universitari, preface by Rector Alberto Tesi, edited by Teresa Megale with the collaboration of Antonia Liberto (Firenze University Press, Florence, 2014).The University Theater Company was awarded in 2008 by UNIVERSOTEATRO-International University Theater Festival of Benevento, directed by Ugo Gregoretti, for the performance A ferro e fuoco, based on Antonio Gramsci's Letters from Prison. In 2014 it was awarded the national 'Cultura di Gestione' Prize, promoted by Federculture for the RI_NASCITE project. Rehearsal Schedule and Venue Fridays from 2:30 pmRoom 113 University Campus of PratoPiazza dell'Università, 1 - Prato Latest Projects In 2024, the Company promoted, in collaboration with the University Museum System, the project Arti in dialogo a Villa La Quiete, a series of monthly events dedicated to women who had a special connection with the ancient Florentine residence: Eleonora Ramírez de Montalvo, Vittoria della Rovere, Cristina di Lorena, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici. Each month a diptych was created between the illustration and historical-artistic commentary of a work and a theatrical and musical performance.In 2022, it premiered nationally with the show Foto di gruppo con Regina for the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the actress Adelaide Ristori (November 10, 2022, Aula musica K43 - Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan). The performance was conceived within the PRIN 2017 project "The work of the Italian actor between national models and international contexts", which includes the University of Florence (SAGAS Department) as a partner and the University of Milan as the lead, and which was the subject of two national conferences in Genoa and Milan. The show was replicated in Prato (November 17, 2022), at the University of Chieti (Rectorate Auditorium, April 28, 2023) and in Florence (Aula Battilani, May 12, 2023).In 2019, Dulcinea e il cuoco, a revisitation of the 18th century comic intermezzo Madama Dulcinea e il cuoco del marchese del Bosco (Florence, Cloister of the Humanistic Library, March 21, 2019), a performance created as part of the European project Q.Theater-Theatrical Recreations of Don Quixote in Europe.Since 2018 to date, it has contributed to the realization of Artist Residencies, a project conceived and promoted by Teresa Megale, in collaboration with the Degree Courses in Pro.Ge.A.S and Performing Arts Sciences and with the Municipality of Prato. The resident artists have been the Rezza-Mastrella company, Ruggero Cappuccio, Gabriele Frasca, Lucia Calamaro, Federico Tiezzi, Elena Bucci, Gianni Bettucci.In 2018, U±R Rapporto sull'UOMO all'epoca dei ROBOT, a theatrical outcome of a reflection on the controversial relationship between technological future, humanity, knowledge and art (Prato, Officina Giovani-Cultural Workshops, June 1-2-3, 2018), freely inspired by R.U.R. by Karel Čapek. With this production, the Company was invited to participate in the fAcT festival, organized by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Pisa, Piazza dei Cavalieri, June 19, 2018). The show was restaged the following year to debut in the program of the Teatro della Limonaia in Sesto Fiorentino (December 14 and 15, 2019).In 2017, Enif Fine Enif, a performance dedicated to the actress-writer Enif Robert, the concluding event of the project La pace era il mio traguardo - Prato e la grande guerra, promoted by the Municipality and the Lazzerini Library of Prato and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, with the participation of 130 students (Prato, Teatro Magnolfi, May 27, 2017).In 2016, La macchina degli spropositi, dedicated to Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes, a performance produced in collaboration with the Teatro Metastasio, with the participation of 80 students (Prato, Teatro Magnolfi, June 4-5, 2016). Images of the shows U ± erre - Rapporto sull'uomo all'epoca dei Robot Other videos featuring the Theatre Company Firenze Cum Laude 2013 | Video performances foraysEnif Fine Enif | Trailer of the performanceUnistem Day 2018 | Stage readings Residenze d’Artista | Antonio Rezza: video - Flavia Mastrella: video - Ruggero Cappuccio: video - Lucia Calamaro: video | Gabriele Frasca: videoDulcinea e il Cuoco | video