OLIVA DENARO - Ambra Angiolini

The new theater season at the Teatro Kennedy in Fasano continues with the collaboration of the City of Fasano and the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese. A very rich program, with ten shows selected from the best Italian productions.

Next appointment with: OLIVA DENARO
from the novel by Viola Ardone
dramaturgy by Giorgio Gallione
in collaboration with Ambra Angiolini

There is a true story and there is a novel. The true story is that of Franca Viola, the Sicilian girl who in the mid-60s was the first, after being a victim of violence, to refuse the so-called "reparatory marriage". The novel takes inspiration from that event, evokes it and reconstructs it, reinventing reality in the magical order of storytelling. At first Oliva is a fifteen-year-old girl who, in Italy of those years, where the law established that if the perpetrator of the crime of rape then married the "offended party", the sentence would automatically be extinguished (even if it was against a minor), seeks her place in the world. Oliva, as an adult, narrates her story in reverse, from when she was a girl approaching life until the moment when, with a decision that scandalizes and surprises especially because it is unprecedented and revolutionary, she refuses the classic "settlement" and says no to violence and abuse. A story of growth and emancipation that delves into the contradictions of love (between fathers and daughters, between mothers and daughters) and insinuates itself among the ambiguities of desire, which flatters and frightens. But Oliva, just like Franca Viola, decides to be the protagonist of her own choices, surrounded by a family that learns with her and thanks to her to overcome blackmail, stereotypes, and conventions. A father who frequents silence and doubt, but who will be able to tell his daughter "if you stumble, I will support you", and a mother who, initially more inclined to submit to bullying and fatalism, will finally be able to break the chains of submission and shame. Thanks to the clear, poetic, theatrical, and imaginative writing of Viola Ardone, Oliva Denaro thus becomes the story of all women who still today think and fear not having a choice, forced by an archaic and indecent law (rape until 1981 was considered only an outrage to morality and not a crime against the person) to accept a oppressor and a rapist within the walls of their home. A story of yesterday and today, which speaks of freedom, civilization, and redemption.
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