“Radicalness and empathy”. These are the words with which Willem Dafoe defines the career of Ursina Lardi.
“An actress of consistently intense depth, ready to take risks and embrace directorial approaches based on different perspectives – reads the motivation – Ursina Lardi is defining her own creativity as an actress in increasingly authorial terms. In all the characters she has played [...] Ursina Lardi has had the infinite grace and painful insight to infuse great humanity into every line, every nuance of the texts, both classical and contemporary. Her stage presence gives her body the power to become not only an absolute theatrical mechanism, but also testimony and perhaps even a challenge, the ultimate political body. In her collaboration with the director Milo Rau in particular, Ursina Lardi has made her own individual story a collective one, taking upon herself, lucidly and with dignity, the contradictions of the bourgeois and capitalist West, almost as if the actress were, again and always, an incarnation of her own time. In the tenderness of a smile or the bitter terror of a glance, Ursina Lardi embodies the thousand nuances of an era on the brink of desperate collapse and at the same time reveals the possibility of a resistance that is not only artistic, but political and human as well. For this reason, and for the commitment with which she will undoubtedly take on times to come, turning theatre into the critical mirror of civilisation, Ursina Lardi is the recipient of the Silver Lion of Biennale Teatro 2025”.