In its original configuration, the Roman theatre was a composite building, made up of many interrelated spaces: cavea, orchestra, fixed stage, frons scaenae, peristyle and the main distributive and connective element represented by the ambulacrum. The combination of these elements guaranteed the Roman theatre a strong urban character, derived from its volumetric mass that imposed itself on the rest of the building fabric. In the case of Spoleto, the theatre appears as a fragment disoriented among other fragments that have lost the field that kept them in relation. This progressive addition of buildings, combined with the excavation campaigns, which took place at different times, in our opinion has on the one hand forgotten some parts of the theatre, but on the other has generated a potential “city building”. The theatre can play this role of re-connection starting from the ambulacrum, which has been preserved for a good part and is interrupted against the wall of the convent but which the project intends to reread and extend by creating a path that crosses all the existing buildings in a new circular movement that reconnects the fragments and residual spaces like a new story.
