Two lines of severed heads in the darkness of the stage. On one side, the adults: the parents, the principal and the school nurse. On the other, the young men and adolescent fathers. They are all hanging like hunting trophies, backed up against the wall by a situation for which they were not prepared.
These true-life events took place in the high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Eighteen young women all pregnant at the same time – a number four times the average – and not all of the cases seem to be a coincidence. Some of the girls apparently planned their pregnancy together, as though part of a secret pact, to then raise the children in a kind of women’s community. Journalists from all over rush to find an explanation for such a shocking pregnancy pact; one of them confesses that they wanted to create a small new world after having witnessed an act of femicide...
In the wake of È bello vivere liberi! ande La semplicità ingannata – both staged at the Teatro Grassi in 2022 – the Piccolo welcomes the third, award-winning play in the trilogy by Marta Cuscunà dedicated to Women’s Resistance.

The script for the show contains explicit references to sex as well as the f-word

The performances on 8 and 9 October are surtitled in English and simplified Italian as part of the Piccolo Aperto project organised with the contribution of the Fondazione di Comunità Milano

The performance on Sunday 9 October is enhanced with a touch tour led by our operators, dedicated to blind and visually impaired spectators, to explore the stage, costumes and props, followed by an audio description of the performance via headphones.
For info and bookings: accessibilita@piccoloteatromilano.it