After 17 performances last season, the show returns to Italian theatres Son, you are no longer a lily which will stop on October 31st at the Chamber of Deputies. Written and directed by Stefania Porrino, with Daniela Poggi and Mariella Navand with the support of Global Thinking Foundation, the show is the result of the creativity of three women: Daniela Poggi, Mariella Nava and Stefania Porrino, an actress, a musician and a writer. Three women who question themselves on what can be done to prevent, to educate, to regenerate relationships between the two sexes.
Although three women were killed in just fifteen days in August, data tells us that from January to June 2024, there were 49 femicides, 21% less than the same period the previous year. This means that perhaps a change is possible, but it is still not enough.
Wrong men? Wrong mothers? Wrong education? This is a complex problem with psychological, social and cultural implications that cannot be explained or addressed in a single way.. This is the perspective that the three artists propose to the public to try together to analyze, understand and overcome old stereotypes and unresolved issues that are rooted in the unconscious of each of us and of an entire society that still struggles to recognize the right to respect that every woman has the right/duty to demand from men.
In the text My son, you are no longer a lily, which takes as its inspiration the famous Crying of the Madonna Of Jacopone from Todi, through a dialogue between music and prose, two mothers compare and exchange their experiences: the actress is the mother of a femicide, the musician is the mother of an apparently “normal” young man.
In a society that is no longer capable of “recognizing the other”, the question that the murderer’s mother insistently asks the other is: “Have you ever really looked him in the eyes? Pay attention to your child, observe him carefully, look him in the eyes!”
Theater is an art based on conflict and the expression of emotions. Because of its strength and the structure that characterizes it, it can become therapeutic and help the spectator to undertake a fruitful journey of self-awareness: What is behind the apparent normality of this distorted humanity?
These are the dates of the tour: October 20 Tolentino – Politeama Tolentino at 6 pm; October 26 Massarosa – Teatro Manzoni at 9.15 pm; October 31 Chamber of Deputies (by invitation); November 11 Rome – Teatro Villa Lazzaroni at 9 pm; November 18 Trento – Teatro San Marco at 8.30 pm; November 25 Massa – Teatro Guglielmi; November 29 San Quirino; November 30 Albenga – Teatro Ambra; March 6 San Sepolcro (Ar) – Teatro Dante; March 7 Castagneto Carducci (Li) – Teatro Roma at 9 pm.
