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THE WOMAN WHO SAID NO ”ON SCENE IN TUNIS

WITH THE IIC

TUNIS \ aise \ - The Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis, on the occasion of the celebrations for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, staged "The woman who said no", on November 28 at 4émé Art in Tunis, by the Onirika Company of the South.
“The woman who said no”, a play written and directed by Pierpaolo Saraceno, who plays it with Mariapaola Tedesco, is freely taken from the story of Franca Viola. Show with more than two hundred and eighty repeats from 2016 to today, winner of nine national awards, "The woman who said no" is staged by the Onirika del Sud company which, founded in Rome in January 2013 by Saraceno, interprets works that originate from a careful observation of everyday life and above all of the ancient traditions and cultures of Southern Italy.
Franca Viola's was the first real refusal to the shotgun wedding in Italy. Viola has become the symbol of the civil growth of Italy and of the emancipation of Italian women after the Second World War. At the time, we are in 1965, in Italy, according to article 544 of the penal code, the crime of rape was considered as not having occurred if the aggressor married his victim. Thanks to the refusal and courage of Franca Viola, article 544 will be repealed in 1981 and only in 1996 will rape finally be legally recognized, in Italy, not only as a crime "against morality", but also as a crime "against the person".
The show will be anticipated on November 27th by a meeting of Saraceno with the students of the Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis (ISSHT) to talk about the figure of Franca Viola and the legal consequences of her choice, but also about how she was born and comes to life a show and how the use of language and dialect is deepened in a theatrical piece.
Matteo Filidoro (lights), Diletta D'Ascia (production assistant), Concepts Fruciano (music) and Ines Labib (translation) collaborate on the show.

Young Augustan actress alongside Franco Nero

(article taken from LA GAZZETTA AUGUSTANA)

New actor challenge for the young Augustan Mariapaola Tedesco (in the cover photo), who from tomorrow will be on a set shared with the famous Franco Nero, for a film production in Fondi, in the province of Latina. The short film with the Latin-like title “Nil difficile volenti” is written and directed by Fabio D'Avino from Lazio, former author of “The Prompter”, a playwright winner of the 2004 Calcante Prize from which the screenplay is based.

Franco Nero, in '68 winner of a David di Donatello (best leading actor with "Il Giorno della Civetta") and candidate for a Golden Globe (best debut actor with "Camelot"), has further consecrated himself internationally in recent years with the cameo in Tarantino's film, “Django Unchained”, a tribute to the Italian director Corbucci who wanted him to star in the 1960s “Django”.

In the small production from Lazio, he will play the role of a revered director, with whom the protagonist of the short, played by the young actor and in this case also the producer who founded Tiberio Ettore Muccitelli, will be able to collaborate. The Augustan Mariapaola Tedesco will play the role of assistant director of the "great master". “It's extraordinary to reach a goal and start from scratch again”, he comments.

A new exciting professional test, after the last reruns in Tunis in collaboration with the Italian Embassy of the play "The woman who said no", produced by the company "Onirika del sud" (the next theatrical effort is entitled "Antiochia"), with whom he collected theater awards and sold out together with fellow actor-director Pierpaolo Saraceno, and after a year of touring for the show "Mamma eroina" by Maricla Boggio, with actress Lina Bernardi who became known to the general public thanks to "L 'last kiss ”by Muccino.

RADIO AUT by Pierpaolo Saraceno in

“A novel of Sicily that changes”. A docu-film produced by ANCE under the direction of Roberta Torre.

Desire for change and revenge, progress and tradition, fight against the mafia and legality: these are the main themes of the "Novel of Sicily that changes", the latest film by Roberta Torre, born from an idea of ​​ANCE Caltanissetta Provincial Building Constructors Association and its President Michelangelo Geraci, and co-financed by ANCE Sicilia (President Dr. Salvo Ferlito).

The docu-film is a journey in search of change in Sicily twenty years after the massacres of Capaci and via D'Amelio, of the Palermo of the “Sicilian Vespers”, of the anti-mafia processions and of the white sheets hanging from the balconies; an interesting historical excursus that through the stories and testimonies of the protagonists tells us a new face of our region, made up of young people who have been able to build a new image of this land with their work.

A memory of a Palermo still in the grip of the mafia relives in the film through the interpretation of Pierpaolo Saraceno and Mariapaola Tedesco, two new young faces of the show who with the staging of "RADIO AUT, LA VOCE DI PEPPINO IMPASTATO", back to the early 1980s, when Peppino, a university student from Cinisi made anti-mafia propaganda through his radio.

From the tragic story of Impastato we then move on to interviews with entrepreneurs who operate in crucial sectors of the Region's economy and in areas with a high Mafia density, and to the birth of the first anti-racket associations.

In this regard, the testimony of the Presidents of the ANCE Association, who have always worked in a crucial sector for organized mafia crime, is of particular importance.

Entrepreneurs talk about the dangers linked to the spread of crime and the tools that are offered today so that we can operate in a regime of legality and transparency, and free from the heavy pressures of the mafia and the grip of the racket.

Alongside these entrepreneurial stories, the film also collects the interventions of some well-known exponents of the world of culture, who participate with their memories and their memory in the completion of this ensemble film; the musician and composer Marco Betta, the architect Gianfranco Tuzzolino, the director Roberta Torre herself, offer their testimony as inhabitants of this land, recalling with their participation the importance of the role of culture for the full development of this splendid and difficult region.