THE PROJECT
Target groups: women coming from Africa and Eastern Europe countries 

The project gives voice to the personal stories told by ten immigrant women struggling to fit into society. Personal stories that need to be shared, re-created on stage in their mother tongue, and healed through community theatre. The two main themes – femininity and migration experience – will be explored from the perspective of a double marginal identity: a woman in a patriarchal world and a woman far from her homeland, family and mother tongue. After a brainstorming session, the workshop focused on exercises inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy.

OPEN REHEARSAL: 3rd DECEMBER H 11:00 am
GIARDINO DELLO SPORT – ATRIPALDA (AV)
DIRECTOR IOANA TOLOARGĂ
COORDINATION AND ASSISTANT DIRECTORS ROSSELLA MASSARI, ARIANNA RICCIARDI
LANGUAGE TUTOR AND FACILITATOR ROBERTA PRISCO
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ROMANIAN ACADEMY IN ROME – ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE

IOANA TOLOARGĂ
Romania

Ioana Toloarga is an emerging playwright and director. She makes theatre, poetry and tales. She trained in theatre direction and Image History at the Faculty of Humanities at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj. Her plays have been staged in theatres in Cluj, Turda, and Bucharest and she collaborates with the platform Tearful Postnational Interfonic. She has also curated multimedia installations and published her work in national journals. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Faculty of Theatre and Cinema of the University of Cluj, where she is working on a research project on recent trends in Romanian dramaturgy

ROSSELLA MASSARI, ARIANNA RICCIARDI, ROBERTA PRISCO
Avellino

Rossella Massari is an actress and theatre trainer from Irpinia. She graduated in Literature in 2010, then went on to obtain a master’s degree at DAMS in Rome and a scholarship in Turin in Social and Solidarity Economics. She has also led Vernicefresca, managing project activities, and extending her activity to the Association’s theatre company. In 2024 she will curate, together with Arianna Ricciardi, the opening of an off theatre in Avellino ‘LSD’Arte’.

Arianna Ricciardi is a graduate of the LIVRe of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University, where she also obtained a master’s degree in Theatre and Pedagogy. A theatre actress and trainer, she has worked in social and educational projects in schools and prisons. She works in communication and promotion in Vernicefresca.

Roberta Prisco is an educator, theatre trainer and designer. A graduate in Law and Science of Public Administration, over the years she has supervised teaching activities in numerous theatre projects funded by Fondazione ‘Con i bambini’, the Social Cohesion Fund and the City of Naples. She was in charge of writing and implementing projects for Vernicefresca.

THE CONTEXT
Vernicefresca
The Cultural Association Vernicefresca has been recognised by the MIUR since 2021 as an accredited subject in the national education and training system for the promotion of creativity in performing theatre. It was founded in Avellino in 2003 to promote a socially useful project aimed at creating a center
for theatrical education and the languages of live performance. The association is involved in theatrical training for schools of all levels too, carrying out projects in the social and cultural sectors.