| VALENTINA ACAVA MMAKA An African Life
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T H E A T R E
Io...donna...immigrata... volere dire scrivere I...Immigrant... woman... to want to say to write
Through the stories of three immigrant women, Drasla, Alina and Farida, the work throws light on the emotional complexity of those who leave their country.
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is a female universe that in eradication cultivates conflicts and
desires for the land of origin as well as for the landing place;
strategies of survival, answers to lost feelings and conditions of
diversity. Nevertheless the condition of these migrants illustrates the metaphor of risking one's own nature and own story, while forcing perceptions and knowledge for times and places to create a world in continuous transformation and imperfect development. The voices of the three characters are intense, committed in preserving their own identity in the face of their life projects and in confronting themselves with a new cultural and social reality that most often does not take them into consideration. The work of Valentina Acava Mmaka reflects the necessity for contemporary society of confronting diversity; an important point for the development of an intercultural society based on dialogue.
THE PRESS
Drasla, Alina, Farida. Three acts, Three women. Three women, Three destinies. Three women who face their own experiences of being foreign and who struggle to make sure that their "being other" does not make them strangers; that it does not make them alien to themselves and to ‘others’.
Jarmila Ockayovà (from the preface)
Valentina
Mmaka offers us the dynamic processes of female identity that reflect
and at the same time question our own selves, so that we won't see
migrants only through figments of our imagination, but as friends, with
their problems, feelings and projects, as part of the globalization
processes that favour cultures more then individual lives. The gap
between me and you - writes Farida - is my identity, my memory,
my history, my diversity. And you are as you are, different but the same
as me.....because you are different ....as me.
Clotilde Barbaruli (from the introduction)
ON STAGE
COMPAGNIA MOSAICOARTE BOCCHEGGIANO -GR
Regia :di Miguel Rosario Attrici: Chiara Bindi e Martina Guideri
TEATRO DELL'ISTANTE - FLORENCE
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Regia di Stefano Mascagni Attrici: Gabriella Ceccherini, Claudia Ilardo, Voce narrante: Carlina Torta
pERFORMANCE based on works by Valentina Acava Mmaka and Christiana De Caldas Brito
TEATRO REON - BOLOGNA
Regia: Fulvio Ianneo Aiuto regia: Anna Amadori Atrici: Astrid Mamina Kayembe, Imane Khalil Combes, Joujou Dipesa Mbamba Joujou Dipesa Mbamba è stata sostituita da Caterina Deregibus Ayelé Fotografia: Livio Senigalliesi
wITH THE SPONSORSHIP OF:
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