There is a true story, and there is a novel. The true story is that of Franca Viola, the Sicilian girl who in the mid-1960s was the first, after suffering violence, to refuse the so-called “shotgun wedding.” The novel takes its cue from that story, evokes it and reconstructs it, reinventing the real in the magical order of the tale.

At the beginning Oliva is a 15-year-old girl who, in the Italy of those years, where the law stipulated that if the perpetrator of the crime of rape then married the “offended party,” he would automatically extinguish the sentence (even if to the damage of a minor), seeks her place in the world. And, in a universe that maintains that “the female is a jug, whoever breaks her gets her,” Oliva tells us, now an adult, her story backwards, from the time when she was a little girl facing life until the moment when, with a decision that arouses scandal and amazement especially because it is unprecedented and revolutionary, she rejects the classic “paciata” and says no to violence and abuse.

Dec. 1 ROVERETO (TN) Teatro Zandonai

Dec. 3-4 BRESCIA Teatro Santa Giulia

Dec. 6 CASALMAGGIORE (CR) Teatro Comunale

Dec. 7 SAVIGLIANO (CN) Teatro Milanollo x

Dec. 8 BORDIGHERA (IM) Palazzo del Parco

Dec. 10 BRUGHERIO (MB) Teatro San Giuseppe

Dec. 11 LEDRO (TN) Centro Culturale di Locca di Concei

Dec. 12-13 PADOVA Teatro Ai Colli

Dec. 14 MESTRE (VE) Teatro Corso

Dec. 15 BELLUNO Teatro Dino Buzzati

Dec. 17 MANTOVA Teatro Sociale

Dec. 18 LEGNANO (MI) Teatro Tirinnanzi

Dec. 19 ALESSANDRIA Teatro Alessandrino

Dec. 20 COSSATO (BI) Teatro Comunale

Dec. 21 IVREA (TO) Teatro Giacosa

Dec. 22 PINEROLO (TO) Teatro Sociale

Jan. 7 CECINA (LI) Teatro Comunale De Filippo

Jan. 8-9 CASTELFIORENTINO (FI) Teatro del Popolo

Jan. 10 PESCIA (PT) Teatro Pacini

Jan. 11 CASCINA (PI) La Città del Teatro

Jan. 13 SPOLETO (PG) Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti

Jan. 14 SANSEPOLCRO (AR) Cinema Teatro Dante

Jan. 15 GROSSETO Teatro Moderno

Jan. 17-19 FERMO Teatro dell’Aquila

Jan. 21 CORIGLIANO-ROSSANO (CS) Teatro Metropol

Jan. 22 CROTONE Teatro Apollo

Jan. 24 to  Feb.1 PALERMO Teatro Al Massimo

Feb. 2 AGRIGENTO Palacongressi 

Feb. 5 CESANO MADERNO (MB) Teatro Excelsior

Feb. 6 GORGONZOLA (MI) Sala Argentia

Feb. 7 MONTAGNANA (PD) Cinema Teatro Bellini

Feb. 8 UDINE Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine

Feb. 9 CORMONS (GO) Teatro Comunale

Feb. 11-12 TORINO Teatro Colosseo

Feb. 13 AOSTA Teatro Splendor

Feb. 14 STRADELLA (PV) Teatro Sociale

Feb. 15-16 LOCARNO (VC) Teatro di Locarno

Feb. 18 BUDRIO (BO) Teatro Consorziale

Feb. 19-23 IMOLA (BO) Teatro Ebe Stignani

Feb. 25 ASTI Teatro Alfieri

Feb. 26 MONDOVÌ (CN) Cinema Teatro Baretti

Feb. 27 VERCELLI Teatro Civico

Feb. 28 VILLADOSSOLA (VB) Teatro La Fabbrica

Mar. 1 CUNEO Teatro Toselli

Mar. 4 SASSARI Teatro Comunale

Mar. 5-9 CAGLIARI Teatro Massimo

Mar. 13-14 SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO (AP) Teatro Concordia

Mar. 15-16 CHIETI Teatro Marrucino

Mar. 18-23 NAPOLI Teatro San Ferdinando

Mar. 26-27 TARANTO Teatro Comunale Fusco

Mar. 28 FASANO (BR) Teatro J.F. Kennedy

Mar. 29-30 FOGGIA Teatro Umberto Giordano

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Apr. 3 SAN GIOVANNI IN PERSICETO (BO) Teatro Fanin

Apr. 4-6 LUCCA Teatro del Giglio

Apr. 8-10 FAENZA (RA) Teatro Masini

Apr. 11-13 FERRARA Teatro Comunale

Apr. 14 FORLÌ Teatro Diego Fabbri

Apr. 15 BORGO SAN LORENZO (FI) Teatro Giotto

Apr. 22 – May 4 MILANO Teatro Franco Parenti