MULTIVERSOtheatre
in collaboration with CSC and PACTA
Playwright: Angela Dematté
Direction: Michela Embrìaco
Cast: Michela Embrìaco
It is the night between July 15 and 16, 1935. Ida Dalser, just escaped from the asylum, alone, at night, travels the road that leads from Pergine Valsugana to her sister's house in Sopramonte, a small district of Trento. Like in a dark fairy tale, she crosses a forest and weaves her grand finale: at her sister's house, she will find her love, Benito Mussolini, who will save her. This is how stories must end. In a stream of consciousness that proceeds without pauses, she retraces her life and imagines a parallel reality, very far from the one that will lead her to death in a couple of years.
Ida Dalser, considered the first wife of Benito Mussolini, was committed by him - and by the regime - to an asylum, where she would die in 1937. How could a successful woman like her, who came from Sopramonte to open an important beauty center in Milan, sell everything for love of Mussolini? What does she see in this man to sacrifice everything for him, and why do many women have the desire to find a man in whom to annihilate themselves? Where does this desire come from? The story with Dalser is an emblematic tale of Mussolini's relationship with women: according to Mirella Serri (Mussolini did so much for women), it is in fascism that we find the roots of that state-sponsored machismo that continues to affect us even today. "Mussolini had developed an anti-feminine hostility that he expressed in laws and prohibitions. The gender stereotypes imposed as a lifestyle during the Ventennio established themselves as patterns that are difficult to die out, destined to mark the history of the twentieth century and even influence the 2000s.”
Single show tickets
Full price €15.00
Reduced (Over 65 and Under 18) €12.00
Subscription for 7 shows €75.00
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