THE ANGEL OF THE HEARTH

Text, direction, sets and costumes Emma Dante
with David Leone, Giuditta Perriera, Ivano Picciallo and Leonarda Saffi
coordination and distribution Aldo Miguel Grompone, Rome

Tuesday 4 May 2027, 6.00 pm | Music Hall – Donizetti Theatre Reflections on *L’ANGELO DEL FOCOLARE*A discussion with ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, the La Svolta Association and the Aiuto DonnaAnti-Violence Centre. The discussion will be chaired by Maria Grazia Panigada One day, within a family, the husband’s habitual violence towards his wife escalates into a femicide. The man kills her by smashing her head with an iron. The woman lies on the floor, dead, but her death is not enough: no one believes her. And so the woman, like the ‘angel of the hearth’ in whose grotesque image she…