Two women. On one side, the city; on the other, the countryside. Hunger, war, the Resistance. A play about women who fought. Bodies trained to obey, who learn to say no. Turin, 1943–1946. Teresa and Arianna are not heroines. They are ordinary women in a time that was anything but ordinary. Through their stories – one set in the city and the other in the Piedmont countryside – hunger, factory work, bombings, strikes, arrests, love, violence and solidarity are interwoven. Two different lives that meet, recognise one another and become part of the same struggle. Arianna and Teresa’s journeys culminate in the constitutional referendum of 2–3 June 1946, when, for the first time in Italian history, women voted. To mark the 80th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the production takes the audience back to that pivotal moment. Whilst the protagonists dream of a future built on equality, freedom, respect for women’s bodies, equal pay and self-determination, we know that that future has become our present. And the question remains unanswered: how much of that dream has actually been realised? This production draws on the voices of the women of the Resistance: factory workers, peasant women, mothers, couriers, and members of the Women’s Defence Groups. Women who did not always take up arms, but who sabotaged, hid, transported, cared for others, organised, and resisted. Women who discovered that freedom is not a gift, but a daily choice.
Full: 13.00€