<p>Toulouse-Lautrec retraces his life marked by the illness that prevented him from enjoying the pleasures of the nobility to which he belonged, in the Albi family home: outdoor games, hunting, parties, etc. The only pastime that made him forget his illness was painting; because of this he decided to leave for Paris to perfect his art. There, he took refuge in the shadows of the artistic and literary bohemian nights, alcohol, brothels, cabarets, café-concerts, circuses and marginal districts to hide his disability. </p>

Shadow theatre

Rod puppet

Adults

Mas i Usó Pasqual

Spain

Villarreal

Printed

Biography

Thoughts on art

Introspective analysis

Painter

Painting

Remembrance

Bohemianism

Infirmity

Illness

Darkness

Night

Disability

Memory

Marginality

Cabaret

Paris

Dramatic

Catalan

Toulouse-Lautrec

Monologue

Projected shadows

Metatheatre

Cabaret act

Off-stage voice

Estratègia per a una ciutat d'ombres

Stratégie pour une ville d'ombres

<p>Ondina Peteani was born in Trieste on 26 April 1925. As a teenager, she began to associate with the Fontanot family and attended communist meetings. At the age of seventeen, she chose to become an underground activist of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). She soon began to carry out her first resistance actions under the pseudonym "Natalia". During a police operation in a mountain refuge, Ondina managed to save herself with the help of comrade Cvetko. In June 1943, all the members of the resistance group to which Ondina belonged, Ondina herself, her mother and her sister were imprisoned because of a double agent. After the armistice on 8 September, they are all freed by the people. The informer turns out to be Ondina's sister, Santina, because she had a love affair with a young fascist. Santina is executed. Fighting against the Germans begins and the resistance fighters succumb after a fierce struggle. Ondine and comrade Stecchi are sent in pursuit of the traitor Blechi, who has caused the death of many resistance fighters after infiltrating among them. The comic sketch with the glove-puppets begins: Blechi notices the presence of Ondina and Stecchi and disguises himself as a priest so as not to be recognised, thus managing to escape. When he meets Ondina, he disguises himself as an old man, but she recognises him and Blechi is caught and killed. In 1944, Ondina is deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp as a political prisoner. She survives despite the physical and psychological hardships. The horror she experienced in the camp did not erase her conviction that she had to fight for resistance and freedom.</p>

Glove-puppet

Gloved hand

Not specified

Cuscunà Marta

Italy

Monfalcone

Documentary story

True story

Resistance fighter

Partisan struggle

Resistance

Fascism

Communism

Feminism

Woman

Heroism

Maquis

Concentration camp

Realist

Pathetic

Italian

Progetto di teatro civile per un’attrice, cinque burattini e un pupazzo

Choir

Peasant accent

Comical regional accent

Alternating narrative / dialogue

Transforming scenery

Disguise

Confinement

Pantomime

Disguised character (false identity)

Puppet theatre within the theatre

Narrative Theater

Narrator

Murder on stage

È bello vivere liberi!

It's good to live free!