Accabadora

Saturday 31 January - At 8.45 pm

The play was written by Carlotta Corradi at the request of the director, who immediately decided to turn it into a monologue from the point of view of Maria, the daughter of Bonaria Urrai, the accabadora of Soreni.

Michela Murgia tells a story set in an imaginary village in Sardinia, where Maria, at the age of six, is given as a fill'e anima to Bonaria Urrai, a seamstress who lives alone and occasionally works as an accabadora.

The word, from Sardinian tradition, comes from the Spanish acabar, which means to finish, to kill. Bonaria Urrai helps people who are dying to die. Maria grows up admiring this new mother, who is more cultured and attentive than her previous one, until the day she discovers her true nature.

She then flees to the mainland to change her life and forget the past, but a few years later she returns to Tzia Bonaria's deathbed. Final care is one of the duties of being a soul daughter, a form of adoption agreed between the natural parent and the adoptive parent.

Carlotta Corradi's play begins with Maria's return to Tzia Bonaria's deathbed. There is a period of separation between the two women that weighs heavily on this encounter.

The truth, the anger that the girl still feels for the betrayal she suffered at the hands of Tzia, comes to the surface forcefully, despite Maria's efforts to float among her best memories.

from the novel by Michela Murgia

dramaturgy: Carlotta Corradi

with Anna Della Rosa

directed by Veronica Cruciani

production: Savà Produzioni Creative, ERT / Teatro Nazionale

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