Lidia Poët
“The legal profession is an office that can only be practised by males, and in which females must not interfere”
(excerpt from the ruling of the Court of Appeal of Turin in 1883)
Lidia Poët fought against this mentality throughout her life.
Through a narration performance with figures, the troubled legal case of Lidia (now made famous by a television series) is recounted. From as early as the second half o the 19th century, she fought to see women’s right to enrol in the Bar Association affirmed.
Only at the age of sixty-five will Lidia be the first woman in Italy to be able to achieve this, becoming at the same time a symbol of the struggle for the recognition of women’s rights, and, over the course of her life, also standing up for prisoners and underage people.
The images, characters and settings described are recreated in a sort a ‘doll’s house’, where short scenes and dialogues alternate, recounting the protagonist’s present and past, combined with reflections on contemporary life.
Script and direction: Serena Di Blasio
Set design: Luigina Tusini
Musical selections: Serena Di Blasio
With: Serena Di Blasio
Production: CTA Gorizia
Tickets
Standard ticket: 8,00€
Reduced ticket (under 25 and over 65) : 6,00€
The ticket office will open 30 minutes before the start of the show.
Information and bookings:
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+39 335 1753049
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The performance is part of the Art&Puppets Project; an initiative designed to promote a new, “borderless” approach to puppetry and live contemporary art. It is specifically aimed at the cross-border region of Gorizia and Nova Gorica.
The Art&Puppets (ARTPUP) project is funded by the European Union through the GO! 2025 Small Project Fund of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 Programme, managed by the EGTC GO.
Learn more about the project
Since its creation in 1994, CTA has pursued the aim of promoting puppet theatre in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region by organising festivals, exhibitions, special projects,
training projects for schools, and productions for both children and adults.
A graduate of the Nico Pepe Academy of Dramatic Arts in Udine, Serena Di Blasio has been collaborating with the CTA (of which she is also a member) for many years,
working in narrative and puppet theatre as an actress, director and author of scripts
for children. She has also been running theatre workshops for schools and for adults
for some time.
