SHADES OF WOMEN OF SCIENCE
with
SARA D’AMARIO
Of
SARA D’AMARIO And FRANCOIS-XAVIER FRANTZ
direction, live music and mise en scène
FRANCOIS-XAVIER FRANTZ
Saturday 11 March at 21.00
Municipal Theater of Casale Monferrato
Castle Square, 9
Casale Monferrato (Al)
Free admission subject to availability
with offer in favor of:
Anti-Violence Center ME.DEA and PANDORA ONLUS
optional booking: rsvp.ancora@gmail.com
Preview Show
Shades of Women of Science is the theatrical show with Sarah D’Amariodirected by Francois-Xavier Frantzwhich will be staged at the Municipal Theater of Casale Monferrato in Piazza Castello, to celebrate an appointment dedicated to women and their ingenuity.
The plot
The show will highlight the activity and personality of twenty female scientists who lived from the 4th century BC to today and will tell the story of the pioneers in mathematics, astronomy, physics and information technology through the centuries. Thus, for example, we will arrive in Hollywood, with the actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr; at Monte Palomar with the astronomer Vera Rubin; you will discover the secrets of the first alchemist-witches to get to the mysteries of the scholars of the fascinating universes of the infinitely small, from the atom to DNA.
Shades of Women of Science it will talk about women who have been able to establish themselves in worlds that too often have relegated them to supporting roles; in the past some of them have even had to change their names and disguise themselves as men to work and prove their worth. The show will therefore be a tribute to female figures who, also thanks to their fathers, mothers, husbands, lovers, colleagues and teachers have been able to demonstrate value and tenacity, regardless of their gender.
Shades of Women of Science is a production of the Ancóra Cultural Association and Constellation Factory with the support and patronage of the Municipality of Moncalieri, Department of Culture and Equal Opportunities.
The staging
Does intelligence have a gender? It is from this simple question that the show develops an amusing journey through time, to discover women who, against all temporal and intellectual prejudices, have made a contribution to humanity’s research and discoveries. On this track, the narration will develop with humor and energy in a cultured and ironic “One-Woman Show”, intended for a heterogeneous audience in terms of education and age.
The representation will develop, with essential scenic elements: rapid changes of costume, amusing and contemporary dialectic, curious contents, rich in information that will evoke intellectual partnerships and, why not, loves and betrayals. Portraits of the female scientists will be projected, sketched pencil drawings, to leave everyone free to identify themselves intimately as protagonists, following the female scientist “on stage”.
Integral part of Shades of Women of Science will be the original and enveloping luminous sets conceived by the director François-Xavier Frantz: a poetic triumph of light and intelligence, seen as a celebration of a dream, a hymn to passion capable of defeating the darkness of prejudice.
Criticism and goals
The main message of which Shades of Women of Science it promotes concerns the prejudice that often, even today, labels girls as not very gifted or not very interested in scientific subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry.
This is revealed by the studies of bibliographic sources, but also by the numerous conversations with students (from primary to secondary school) which have revealed how this false premise is still very rooted, sometimes even in the beliefs of the girls themselves.
With this objective, François-Xavier Frantz and Sara D’Amario wanted to highlight the need and the possibility of freeing oneself from a wrong and penalizing mentality, which is not biological in nature, but historical, social and cultural. And this is why the show aims to offer a moment of enrichment and sharing between generations, stimulating each of us to reflect on the figure of women in science without in any way arguing against men, but by becoming the ambassador of a wider message and positive. Because the difference between women and men should be experienced as a value, not as a reason for confrontation, fear and rivalry.
With the support of the Piedmont Region, CRPO, the Municipality of Casale Monferrato, the CRT foundation, JAS
Biographies of the authors
Sarah D’Amario
In 1993 she graduated from the School for Actors of the Teatro Stabile in Turin, founded and directed by Luca Ronconi. She studied in New York with Susan Batson and Elizabeth Kemp. You have a degree in Modern Literature, specializing in dramaturgy at the University of Turin. In the theater she was directed, among others, by Luca Ronconi, Krzysztof Zanussi, Nanni Garella and Luca Zingaretti.
For the cinema he starred in several films, including The rich, the poor and the butler, The band of Santa Clauses, The cosmos on the dresser (with Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo), Calm chaos (with Nanni Moretti), Only a father ( Luca Lucini), Colpo d’occhio (by Sergio Rubini), Assassins of holiday days (by Damiano Damiani), The girl by the lake (with Toni Servillo), Just in case (by Alessandro D’Alatri), How to grow up despite your parents (by Luca Lucini).
On television he has participated in many dramas, including Seasons of the Heart, Commissioner Nardone (in the role of Rina Fort), The Three Roses of Eva (in the role of Angela Corti), Don’t Stop Dreaming, Police District 8, Io there are (the true story of Lucia Annibali), Honor and respect, Sacrificio d’amore, I Topi, as well as the soap operas Vivere and Centovetrine. She is the female protagonist of the fiction “Fratelli Caputo” alongside Nino Frassica and Cesare Bocci.
In addition to Shades of Women of Science, she is currently on stage with STORIES OF WOMEN OF FIRE AND LIGHT (in which she tells of some women who changed their destiny and lit lights that never went out in the minds and hearts of many people); GREENMINDS (a journey around the earth discovering the Green Jobs and trying to dodge fake news), A QUARTET FOR THE RESISTANCE (the 20 months of two women and two men emblematic for the history of our country) and with the ferocious comedy IN THE EYES DI MIA MADRE – IL MAMMON on the most famous trio in the world: Mum, Wife and Mammon, all directed by François-Xavier Frantz.
She is also the author of four novels: Nitro (Baldini Castoldi Dalai publisher, 2009); Un cuore XXL (Fanucci Editore, 2013) winner of the Sirmione Prize for Children’s Literature; Kikka (Fanucci Editore, 2014); and Magnetic (Leggereditore, 2018) semi-finalist Bancarellino Award 2019.
François-Xavier Frantz – director, actor and playwright
Born in Madagascar to French parents, after having lived for a long time in France, he has been living and working in Italy for several years. He graduated in 1983 at the School for Actors Le Cours Simon in Paris and in 1988 he graduated with honors in Plastic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Metz (France). In 1993 he took part in an intensive directing seminar conducted by Luca Ronconi at the Teatro Stabile in Turin.
Between 1983 and 2004 he worked as an actor, theater director, playwright with some great masters, including Anatoli Vassiliev (Russia), Jerzy Grotowski (Pontedera), Michelle Kokosowski – Académie Expérimentale des Théâtres (France)
He collaborated with Daisy Amias on the world premiere creation of Phaedra (Seneca), Andromache (Jean Racine ) in Korean language in Seoul – South Korea, and on the adaptation of André Breton’s Nadja; he later collaborated with Isabelle Janier on the staging of several of Marivaux’s texts.
Among his theater directions stand out various works by Pasolini, Fassbinder, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Tennessee Williams, Werner Schwab, Jean Genet, Edouard Dujardin.
He has made some short fiction films in French and Italian.
Between 2004 and 2011 he worked as a feature film producer for international cinema at Love Streams agnès b. Productions, Paris. Since 2011 he has been working as an independent actor, author, director and script doctor also in Italy. He is the author, together with Sara D’Amario, and director of 5 shows currently on tour: (XXno) SHADES OF WOMEN OF SCIENCE (a monologue on 20 female scientists who revolutionized the world), STORIES OF WOMEN OF FIRE AND LIGHT the story of some women who changed their destiny and lit lights that never went out in their minds and in the hearts of many people), the ferocious comedy IN MY MOTHER’S EYES – (THE MOMMY) about the most famous trio in the world: Mother, Wife and Mum, GREENMINDS (a journey around the earth discovering the Green Jobs and trying to fake news) and A QUARTET FOR THE RESISTANCE (the 20 months of two women and two men emblematic for the history of our country).
Information
Saturday 11 March at 21.00
Municipal Theater of Casale Monferrato
Castle Square, 9
Casale Monferrato (Al)
Free admission subject to availability
with offer in favor of:
Anti-Violence Center ME.DEA and PANDORA ONLUS
optional booking: rsvp.ancora@gmail.com