Olive Money

with Ambra Angiolini
from the novel by Viola Ardone
dramaturgy Giorgio Gallione in collaboration with Ambra Angiolini
sets and costumes Guido Fiorato
lighting design Marco Filibeck
music by Paolo Silvestri
direction Giorgio Gallione
production Goldenart Production/Agidi

There's a true story and a novel. The true story is that of Franca Viola, the Sicilian woman who in the mid-1960s was the first to reject the so-called "shotgun marriage" after suffering violence. The show draws inspiration from that story, evokes it, and reconstructs it, reinventing reality within the magical order of the narrative.

Now an adult, Oliva tells the audience her story, from when she was a young girl facing life to the moment when, in a decision that sparks scandal and amazement, she rejects the traditional "pacifying" and says no to violence and abuse. A story of growth and emancipation that explores the contradictions of love (between fathers and daughters, between mothers and daughters) and explores the ambiguities of desire, which both flatters and frightens.