On March 9, appointment to the Quarry House of Matera to the presentation and staging of a play .
” The scepter of the King” , the work that encloses the four new theater pieces Rosanna Filomena dedicated to the theme of femicide has been published in recent days by the publisher Lucan Edigrafema . The introduction of Don Marcello Cozzi, national vice president Libera, and a preface by Carlo Fanelli , Professor of Drama and Aesthetics of Theatre at the University of Calabria. On the cover is a painting made for publication by the master Gaetano Dimatteo artist has always been sensitive to this kind of social problems.
The protagonists Sofia , Marsela , Esther, and Gisele , faces disfigured , brutalized , exhausted tell the drama too often silent about the mistreatment of women. The author, with the clever use of the unspoken and no punctuation , celebrates the redemption of all of them which is realized through a lucid awareness of reality. Why becoming, sucked on the skin , it shows only furrows arid but fruitful signs of a time not completely stingy.
There are 130 women killed in Italy in 2013, but there are many more than those morally annihilated and forced to give up a social role. “No. It is not fancy . It is not a play. And not even the fairy-tale story of ancestral fears that somehow we must exorcise ” says Don Marcello” is the story of a kingdom without a king, a king without a scepter and a scepter that disfigures the face of many, many women. Is the description of hell naked and tragic that we often walking alongside and is consumed in the next door without realizing it, sometimes in indifference, or worse still, in the belief that all things is an exaggeration . ”
One of the first presentations and representations that in Matera Basilicata 9 March , organized in collaboration with the Onyx Jazz Club enchanting frame of Quarry House , Silvia Barletta and Carmela Dimatteo , directed by the author and accompanied by the music of the master Angelo Violante will interpret the play that gives the title to the volume.
Rosanna Filomena is a playwright , theater director and theoretical of the show . Chairman of the Research Centre of Languages of Art AURA door to the theater to contemporary social issues , particularly dealing with abuse , blackmail , harassment against women, therefore femicide . Already the author of When the wind blows strong ( Albatros, 2012) , a tribute to the story of Elisa Claps , has won several awards for his artistic and social commitment : the winners of the Special Section “G” , with the theme “Violence against daily women : a social problem , ” XV International Literary Contest Mondolibro edition (Rome , 2013) , 1st Special Award in Theatrical Literature Review of Art and Literature ” Homage to Giacomo Puccini ” ( Viareggio , 2013) ; Award ANDE ” Women of ‘ year 2014 ” ( Power , 2014 ) .
