Simple Simon pays a visit to his friend, Simple Susan, whom he thinks is a bit lazy. Simple Susan states that she hates men and that women can do anything better than them. She catcalls four boys, who bark as an answer, and asks them to help her build a house. First, she goes to choose work clothes. Simple Simon calls for her, but she is too busy and refuses his help. When she comes back in work clothes, the four boys bring the house that they have already built - a doll house. She asks them to send a picture of the house to the Daily Mail and to look for a buyer. While she complains about Simple Simon’s selfishness, he reappears, accompanied by a neighbour who thanks him for everything he is willing to do for her: build a carriage, a house, and go for a walk with her. Furious, Simple Susan asks the neighbour what she is going to do to repay Simple Simon. Her answer, “I can look pretty” makes Simple Susan break into pieces.

String marionette

Not specified

Craig Edward Gordon

Italy

Marina di Pisa

Printed

Feminism

Labour

Women's condition

House

Jealousy

Obedience

Seduction

Comical

Satirical

English

Simple Simon

Monologue

Address to the public

Character represented in animal form

Splitting of the body

Simple Susan

Simple Susanne

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.

Glove-puppet

Gloved hand

Cuscunà Marta

Monfalcone

Documentary story

Biography

True story

Resistance fighter

Partisan struggle

Resistance

Fascism

Communism

Woman

Heroism

Maquis

Concentration camp

Realist

Pathetic

Dramatic

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!

In the 17th century, inside the monastery of Santa Chiara in Udine, the sisters organised themselves to transform this cloistered place into a centre of culture and free thought. By opposing the imposed precepts and benefiting from the support of families and the city government, the small community of nuns developed a movement of resistance to patriarchy, which succeeded even in the face of the Inquisition trial. The sisters' story is intertwined with that of another example of resistance, Arcangela Tarabotti, who was forced to enter a monastery at the age of ten because of a physical defect (lameness) that made her unsuitable for marriage. Angelica became a scholar, who never ceased to recount the deprivation of freedom in her works, denouncing the mechanisms that relegated young girls without a vocation to monasteries.

Bassano del Grappa

Religion

Monastery

Trial

Fence

Complaint

Inquisition

Polemical

Parodistic

Ironic

Satira per attrice e pupazze sul lusso d’esser donne

Daughter

Bishop

Father

Sister

Vicaire

Prologue

Philosophical dialogue

Offstage

Scene in a low voice

Court scene

La semplicità ingannata

Betrayed naivety

In an American high school, a group of girls decide to make a secret pact. They choose to get pregnant together, then flee their town and found a female community. When the headmaster realises what is happening, he tries to cover it up, fearing confrontation with parents and the media, but inevitably everything comes to light. The girls inform their boyfriends of their pregnancies by text message, and then they organise their escape. The parents' cries will not deter them from their intentions. On the contrary, these same cries will turn into reflections on their own faults and on the causes of this shocking pact.

Animatronic

Trento

Teenagers

Community

High school

Domestic violence

Gender-based violence

Minor news

Pregnancy

Secret

United States of America

Documentary

Young girl

Digital

Promise

Discussions about a secret pact for 12 severed heads

Nurse

School director

Mother

Absence of the main character

Apparition of the puppeteer

Comedy of language

Stream of consciousness

Argument

Epilogue

Instant messaging

Smartphone applications

Sorry, boys

Crows live in abundance on the corpses of humans who keep killing each other in war. The Fanes people, thousands of years ago, lived in peace and harmony with nature, thanks to a special bond with the marmots. Power was passed from mother to daughter, until Princess Dolasilla's mother was forced to break the old rules by abdicating and marrying the king of a foreign land who worshipped the god of war.From then on, under male control, the people of Fanes are at war.In the depths of the mountain, two little siblings, Aylan and Hudea, remain hidden. They wear a mouse costume to disguise themselves, because soldiers do not shoot mice. But the food in the cave is running out and the female ancestors of the Fanes people, their only hope of salvation, seem to be unresponsive. The king has finally decided to send his daughter Dolasilla, the rightful successor to the throne, to the battlefield: he wants to get rid of her so as not to lose his power. Aylan decides to separate from his sister and go out of the mountain to help Dolasilla in the battle, but they are both killed, along with many other Fanes. After the battle, the crows discuss the cruel nature of the human soul, while they eat the corpse of a child.

Costume puppet

Udine

Electronic text

Ancestors

Groundhog

Nature

Peace

Slaughter

Epic

Mountain

Dolomites (Italy; massif)

Fanes

Myth

Love

Power

Hidden child

Child

Tragic

Fantasy

Raven

King

Political allegory

Off-stage noise

Tragic conflict

Invisible character

Foresight

Story

Video

Off-stage voice

Il canto della caduta

Le chant de la chute

After a prologue where Pulcinella introduces the play and the dog sings a song, Teresina is attacked by a man in the street. The Moon appears to Teresina and calls her to come in a bid to protect her. Pulcinella looks for his beloved but the Moon prevents him from approaching. Pulcinella disguises himself as a woman, he is attacked by the same man as Teresina, and is then pursued by Death disguised as a policeman who wants to tire him out with domestic chores. Pulcinella flies off to the Moon and persuades Teresina to come back with him. Back on Earth, the two lovers take revenge on their attacker, who turns out to be a child calling out to his mother for help, and they eat a dish of spaghetti.