Sorry, boys
© Daniele Borghello
Taking her cue from a true-life account – the shared pregnancy of eighteen adolescent women – Marta Cuscunà, accompanied by twelve animatronic heads, provides an analysis of contemporary society, looking at gender-based violence, taboo and forms of masculinity.
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Teatro Studio Melato
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
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes without intermission
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
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes without intermission
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© Daniele Borghello
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© Daniele Borghello
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© Daniele Borghello
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© Daniele Borghello
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© Daniele Borghello
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© Daniele Borghello
Credits
Sorry, boys
by and with Marta Cuscunà
severed head design and creation Paola Villani
assistant to the director Marco Rogante
lighting design Claudio “Poldo” Parrino
sound design Alessandro Sdrigotti
graphic animation Andrea Pizzalis
live lighting, audio and video Marco Rogante
stage costumes Andrea Ravieli
a Centrale Fies production
with the financial support of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Ministry of Heritage, Cultural Activity and Tourism
with the support of Operaestate Festival, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara, Municipality of San Vito al Tagliamento – Department of Cultural Heritage and Activity, Friuli Venezia Giulia Theatrical Organisation
curated by Etnorama – Cultura per nuovi ecosistemi
organisation Laura Marinelli
distribution Jean- François Mathieu
heads kindly provided by Eva Fontana, Ornela Marcon, Anna Quinz, Monica Akihary, Giacomo Raffaelli, Jacopo Cont, Andrea Pizzalis, Christian Ferlaino, Pierpaolo Ferlaino, Filippo pippogeek Miserocchi, Filippo Bertolini, Davide Amato
with thanks to Andrea Ravieli, Lucia Leo, Roberto Segalla and the youngsters of the Gender and Sexuality Group of Collegio del Mondo Unito dell’Adriatico
The script for the show contains explicit references to sex as well as the f-word
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Category of performance: Hosted Show
Stalls full price € 33 | Discounted (under 25 and over 65) € 21
Balcony full price € 26 | Discounted (under 25 and over 65) € 18
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