"Stories of women...women and history" comes to life, a theater festival conceived and organized by the Mezcla intercultura association, this year in its seventh edition: until Sunday 25 June, in the spaces of piazza Legalità and Casa Ofelia in via Parrocchia 88 in Sestu, actresses and actors together with musicians and musicians, storytellers and narrators, poets will tell the world of women with poetic, dramatic, fabulous, funny or melancholy stories to represent a universe of beauty that often knows how to be tragic and cruel.
On Friday 23 June the program will come alive with the appointments at Casa Ofelia, in via Parrocchia 88: at 9 pm the Turin company Bonaventura will present "Emanuela Loi, the girl from Borsellino's escort", by and with Eleonora Frida Mino; it is the infamous story of a girl who dreamed of being a teacher but for a series of circumstances entered the Police; destined for the escort of judge Paolo Borsellino, she died killed in the Cosa Nostra attack in July 1992. The show, which debuted in Turin thirty years after the massacre in via D'Amelio in the presence of Emanuela's sister, Claudia Loi, by Lucia Borsellino, Paolo's daughter, is in the form of a monologue enriched by suggestive video contributions. The show touches on the themes of courage and gender equality: starting from life choices and tackling a career in an area still considered masculine, where the fight against the mafia becomes a war for everyone's freedom. Emanuela Loi's Fiat Panda will be on display at Casa Ofelia for the evening.
Below "The offsides", by and with Michele Vargiu directed by Laura Garau, co-produced by Meridiano Zero, Teatro Tabasco and Compagnia Vaga, is a theatrical tale that tells the story of the Milanese women's football group, the first women's team born in 1932: it is a tale of sport but also of courage, ambition and rebellion. The production can boast over 300 performances in the last three years on stages throughout Italy.
The festival will continue on Saturday 24: at 8 pm the Symponia company will be on stage with the show on Maria Grazia Pinna, in 1979 the first woman to referee a football match; Valentina Sulas with "The priest's mother", freely adapted from "The mother" by Grazia Deledda; Les Bruixes from Alghero with "Seven women alone" by Michele Vargiu with Elisabetta Dettori and Maria Antonietta Caria.
