La donna dei fili

Reading for an actress and a musician

From the novel by Ferdinando Camon

With Anna Zago

Guitar and voice: Thierry Di Vietri

Production: Theama Teatro

Cultured, intelligent, yet fragile and restless, Michela is a woman at the turning point of her forties who suddenly no longer knows how to inhabit her own life. Her husband, her daughter, her friends, her work as a teacher: everything seems distant, alien, devoid of meaning. Something inside her is running empty. A dark, incomprehensible knot that torments her and often pushes her into a corner. In the face of this confusion, Michela is left with one choice: to let herself go or to ask for help.

The show tells the story of the encounter between Michela and her psychoanalyst, traversing ten years of analysis: a journey made of shadows and conquests, resistances and revelations, obsessions and rebirths.

At the center, the time that flows inexorably and those invisible threads that hold her tight. Threads that, during the sessions, transform into an umbilical cord, a scarf, a train track: powerful, symbolic images that give form to the conditioning, the fear and anxieties that accompany the existence of every human being.

The show conveys the emotional intensity and the depth of the psychological excavation of the novel “La donna dei fili” by Ferdinando Camon, Winner of the Campiello Selection Prize 1968.

It creates a journey without a safety net, a whirlpool of feelings that burn like torches deep in the soul and lead the audience to confront their own fragilities, inviting them to look within, without defenses.

The show closes the festival “You and Me: We”, realized as part of the EQUALIT-À project