(by Daniela Giammusso)
A wide range of female
protagonists will take center stage in the upcoming theater
season in Italy.
The first will be on October 19 at Rome's Teatro Sistina,
when Monica Guerritore will play the part of Judy Garland in
'End of the Rainbow', a musical comedy by Peter Quilter.
Another homage to an immortal star of the theater world,
Sarah Bernhardt, will be 'La Divina Sarah' with Anna Bonaiuto,
directed by Marco Carniti and opening in February at Teatro
India in the Italian capital.
Several heroines from history will also go on stage
including Princess Diana in 'Diana e Lady D', a musical that
Vincenzo Incenzo created alongside Serena Autieri. The debut
will be in February at Teatro Sistina.
'Evita', Argentina's national icon and illegitimate
tailor's daughter who became an actress and then the wife of
President Juan Domingo Peron, will be played by Malika Ayane in
the first Italian version of the musical by Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber, directed by Massimo Romeo Piparo. The debut will
be in November at Assago's Teatro della Luna.
'Il Segreto della Vita' on Rosalind Franklin, a British
scientist who was the first to photograph a DNA sample but whose
discovery was stolen by her colleague James Watson (who won the
Nobel Prize nine years later) will debut at Rome's Teatro Eliseo
in March.
Others will focus on the lives of the Italian poet Alda
Merini and the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja, and works
that revolve around women such as 'Madame Bovary' and Eduardo De
Filippo's 'Filumena Marturano' will be in the line-up as well.
photo: Monica Guerritore
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