The Jury Experience in Rome

The Jury Experience is a piece of courtroom theatre that Fever produces itself; its own site says it now plays in more than 150 cities. In Rome the audience is the jury of one case, which Fever calls Million-Dollar Murder or Web of Lies? You take a seat in the zone you paid for, the stage becomes the court, and for about 60 minutes witnesses, questioning and evidence are put in front of you.

The case, Fever says, is inspired by real events: a love triangle, a divorce worth millions of dollars and a murder, with no DNA evidence. The defendant is either a cold-blooded killer or a pawn in somebody else’s game, and every witness has a reason to lie. You vote at key moments during the trial, and Fever says those votes bring out new details of the case, so no two performances run quite the same. The last vote is the verdict, guilty or not guilty, and the jury has the final word. Voting is on your own phone: the Teatro Marconi listing says a QR code shown in the room opens the voting page, and that staff will help if it will not scan.

Both Rome listings give the language as Italian. The whole trial is spoken, so this is a show for visitors who follow Italian comfortably, and for Italian speakers travelling with them. Fever’s content note says it deals with murder, violent death, domestic violence and emotional manipulation, with a detailed discussion of a murder case. Ages are 12 and over, and under-16s must come with an adult.

Nothing is on sale before 30 January 2027. On 11 November 2026 Fever listed three dates at Teatro Ghione, a 468-seat theatre at Via delle Fornaci 37, near St Peter’s: Saturday 30 January 2027 at 16:30 and 19:00, Friday 19 February at 18:00 and 20:30, and Saturday 27 March at 16:30 and 19:00. A fourth date, Sunday 7 March 2027 at 16:30 and 19:00, is at Teatro Marconi on Viale Guglielmo Marconi in the south of the city. Doors open 30 minutes before each performance.

The one we would book is Teatro Ghione. It has three of the four dates and two performances on each, it holds the higher rating, 4.4 from 191 reviews on Fever on 11 November 2026, and it is the one near the centre: a 5-minute taxi from Donna Camilla Savelli and a 22-minute walk from Eitch Borromini Palazzo Pamphilj. Zone C is 23 euros, Zone B 30 and Zone A 38, with no booking fee added. An afternoon performance at 16:30 leaves the evening free for dinner in Borgo or Trastevere.

Teatro Marconi is the same case under a slightly different Italian title, rated 4.3 from 202 reviews on Fever on the same day. It has one date, Sunday 7 March 2027, and four zones, from 23 euros in Zone D to 38 in Zone A. It is in the south of the city, 9 minutes by taxi from Hotel San Anselmo and 17 from Bvlgari Hotel Roma, so it suits readers staying on the Aventine or in Trastevere, or anyone whose dates only fit that Sunday. Because the two listings are one case, book one of them, not both. If you do not follow Italian, the same theatre is one of the venues on our Candlelight concerts page, an evening of music where language does not matter.