Cinzia Spanò – Reading Lolita in Tehran
reading a care by Cynthia Spanò
music from live by Marta Pistocchi (violin)
from novel by Azar Nafisi edited by Adelphi
under the auspices of Amnesty International
images routes from project photographic My Stealthy Freedom Iran by Marinka Masseus
Quando: Lunedì 07 agosto 2023
Apertura Biglietteria e ritrovo spettatori: ore 20:30
Inizio spettacolo: ore 21:30
Dove: Parco San Donato & Concavità di Leonardo – Loc. Vignola (Sogliano al Rubicone)
Biglietti: € 5,00
Prevendita: https://www.liveticket.it/ricerca_eventi.aspx?Id=8444&Testo=notturni%20nel%20bosco
Info: Sillaba/Prova d’attore – Cell. 370 3685093 (h. 2-6 p.m. Mon-Fri and day of performance)
“In the fall of 1995, after resigning from my last academic position, I decided to give myself a gift and fulfill a dream. I asked the seven best female students I had to come to my house on Thursday mornings to talk about literature.” Born out of a desire to support the protests that erupted in Iran in September 2022 following the death of Mahsa Amini followed by her arrest by the morality police for not wearing her headscarf properly, the reading, which was sponsored by Amnesty International, had its national premiere on Nov. 25, 2022, on RaiRadio on Laura Palmieri’s radio program “Il Teatro di Radio 3” on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Azar Nafisi’s bestseller translated into 32 languages and remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for as many as 117 weeks, tells the true story of the author, who was forced to leave the university where she taught because of the Islamic Republic’s constant pressure exerted on the content of lectures and people’s private lives, particularly women. By gathering some of her students in the living room of her house to continue her lectures, she transforms it into a place of absolute freedom where literature, words, and imagination become tools of struggle and resistance. The reading wants to become an ideal continuation of those encounters, wants to be a tribute to the courage and strength of Iranian women and ideally intends to create a connection with women around the world who are currently struggling for their self-determination and freedom and against all forms of oppression and violence. Cinzia Spanò is a theater actress who graduated from the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan in 1996. Since then, she has worked in theater with important directors including Antonio Latella, Massimo Castri, Damiano Michieletto, Francesco Frongia, Ferdinando Bruni, Jacopo Gassmann, Carmelo Rifici…She has won the Imola Award, the Hystrio Award, the Anteprima Award and has been a finalist in the Ubu Awards for Theater. In May 2019 she debuts her text “Tutto quello quello che volevo,” dedicated to Judge Paola di Nicola and her sentence concerning a famous case of child prostitution in Rome’s Parioli district. In 2020 she founds with other female colleagues Amleta, against inequality and discrimination of women in show business. In 2020, Corriere della Sera includes her among the 110 Women of the Year.
With Notturni nel Bosco (Nocturnes in the Woods ), Sogliano’s theatrical activity moves to wooded places, along nature trails, on the evening’s doings. An activity that intends to combine theater and natural landscape in extemporaneous places of great charm, where the performance is immersed in nature, creating a strong suggestion: artists and spectators immersed in nature and in the silence of the woods. Performances of theatrical storytelling or in music, for a heterogeneous audience with a ritual prelude: in fact, spectators are invited to give themselves a rendezvous at an established meeting place, from which then at dusk they leave for a short walk through the natural paths of the Sogliano landscape to reach the performance venue. Over the years we have learned to “carefully digress” around the theme of theatrical storytelling: for us theater is what happens in the place where artists and spectators gather together. We have built and consolidated theatrical activity in its traditional place: the E. Turroni. But over the years we have also promoted and brought theater to more informal places: Sogliano and its natural landscape as a diffuse theater. Our proposal tends to promote live performance in the places of the natural landscape of the Sogliano area. In each case, the overall context is rural and vegetal in nature, both for the short walk (with the help of GAE guides when required) and for the performance venue.
