"Ricucire, con il filo della Storia" - Women's voices for peace

Text and direction Miguel Ángel Cienfuegos With Luisa Ferroni and Deborah Erin Parini Costumes and set design Deborah Erin Parini

There are 56 ongoing war conflicts in the world. We feel the need to talk about peace. To do so, we bring historical female peace activists to the stage. First, Jane Addams, a North American citizen who lived between 1860 and 1935. Next, Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941, also an influential pacifist. Rosa Luxemburg, 1870 - 1919, a well-known exponent of socialism and pacifism in the last century. Joyce Lussu, 1912 - 1998, Italian writer and poet. An anti-fascist partisan, over the years she took up an anti-militarist position. Finally, a Swiss woman of today, who ideally represents all women in Switzerland. She is a mother and sees with concern the fate of her children in a context of war not far from our borders. But why women? Because they, in the words of Jane Addams, know the value of life better than men. Their voices have often gone unheard. It would be appropriate to recompose that rich fabric made by their ideas and actions, to stitch it back together with the thread of history. With this work, we complete the ‘Women's Trilogy’, which began in 2022 with ‘Mata Hari - spy or dancer?’, shot by the French in 1917, and continued in 2023 with ‘Running with Samia’, the Somali athlete who died in the Mediterranean. It is now joined by “Mending, with the Thread of History”.

Theatre in Italian FREE ENTRY with voluntary contribution