The show, on stage from 10 to 12 May, is based on the novel of the same name by Silvia Ferreri, finalist for the Strega award in 2018
After the success of last season, it returns to the scene at Parioli Theatrefrom 10 to 12 Maythe show EVE’S MOTHER with Stefania Rocca and Bryan Ceotto / Simon Sisti Ajmone.
Based on the novel by Silvia Ferreri (NEO Edizioni), the adaptation and direction are by Stefania Rocca.
Director’s notes
What does it mean to be a mother? No one is born a parent and no woman is born a mother. The only, true, possible guide is love, a continuous exchange between parents and children, in real and sincere listening between generations. “Eva’s mother” is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Silvia Ferrerifinalist for the Strega award in 2018.
It is the touching and contemporary story of a mother who speaks to her daughter – she has always considered her a girl – in a clinic in Belgrade, while beyond the wall, they are preparing the operating room and the doctors draw green lines on the Alessandro’s naked body, to allow him to finally realize his wish: “before I turn eighteen I want to undergo the operation that will make me what I really am: a man”.
In a surreal dialogue without answers, suspended between the imagined and the real, the mother talks about their life up to that moment. A journey full of love and hate, guilt, fears, desires and hopes. Mother and son are the faces of a society that evolves and doesn’t give time, it displaces us and makes us alone.
With this show, I want to talk about the strong generational contrast and transgender issues from the point of view of those who are physically involved and also of those who, as parents, feel the duty to protect “their creature”, with the fear of discrimination that society often reserves for those pursuing a transition path.
For Alessandro, transition is a path that changes the body, not the identity. He was born a man.
There is no before and after. For the mother, conditioned by an ancestral prejudice, the transition is an unjustified ordeal as well as being an insult to the “fruit of her womb”. She is not a bigoted woman but she is afraid. Fear that her daughter will suffer too much, fear that she will be judged, fear that life could be for her harder. The love and anxiety of being a perfect mother lead her to look from a single perspective, hers, until she herself is able to understand and break down that wall of loneliness that has divided them, until moment in which both will be reborn.
Through her, I would like an additional window on gender identity to be opened for the public, which leads the spectator to emotionally identify with both characters. I think that many parents and so much* son* who are facing a similar path, thanks to watching this show they will be able to feel less alone.
