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

Not specified

Cuscunà Marta

Italy

Monfalcone

Trento

Printed

Feminism

Woman

Teenagers

Community

High school

Domestic violence

Gender-based violence

Minor news

Pregnancy

Secret

United States of America

Documentary

Young girl

Digital

Promise

Realist

Polemical

Pathetic

Italian

Discussions about a secret pact for 12 severed heads

Nurse

School director

Father

Mother

Absence of the main character

Apparition of the puppeteer

Comedy of language

Stream of consciousness

Argument

Epilogue

Offstage

Instant messaging

Smartphone applications

Monologue

Sorry, boys

Alcide Cervi was a farmer. In 1934 he moved with his family to Gattatico, near Reggio Emilia, on a piece of land called Campirossi ("red fields"), which nobody wanted because it was infertile. He lives there with his nine children: seven boys and two girls. With hard work, they manage to make these fields prosper, and the family can afford to buy a tractor. The Cervi family is known for their anti-fascist political positions. After July 1943, when the Americans landed and Mussolini was arrested, all seemed well. But in November of the same year, a hundred fascists besieged the Campirossi house. The seven brothers try to resist, but they are arrested and eventually executed. As a sign of support and respect, Alcide Cervi never ceased to receive gifts from all sides: a Bible from the Fiat factory workers in Turin, a globe from the agricultural cooperative workers in Santa Vittoria, skittles for his grandchildren from some friends of the boules club. Finally, the puppeteer himself, Maurizio Bercini, wants to give Alcide a gift: a puppet with his features, with which he can transform pain 'into serenity and play'.

Object theatre

Rod puppet

Direct Manipulation Bunraku-type Puppetry

All audiences

Allegri Marina

Parma

Electronic text

Resistance

Resistance fighter

Partisan struggle

Politics

Capital executions and executors

Fascism

Murder

Brother

Large family

Family

Communism

Friendship

Farming

Animated object

Gift

Didactic

I doni di papà Cervi

Musician

Alcide Cervi

Puppeteer

Story

Narrative Theater

Alternating narrative / dialogue

Address to the public

Narrator

Inserting poetry

Avista

Caricature

Dialogue with the audience

Murder on stage

Cide

Cide. Father Cervi's gifts