Sometimes, to explain things, we should just look for words. Find them. Finally say it out loud. The simplest thing. Telling how in Palermo, on April 19, 1983, for the first time in the history of the city, a woman, Elda Pucci, the Doctor, was elected Mayor. Then tell of how always in April, a year later, on the 13th, Elda Pucci, the Doctor, is disheartened. Finally, tell how after another year, on 20 April 1985, Elda Pucci's house in Piana degli Albanesi blows up under the pressure of two explosives. In the first, in the middle, in the after, where everything mixes like lime, like glue, the billions of heroin, the assassinations of General Dalla Chiesa, Michele Reina, Piersanti Mattarella, Pio La Torre, the writer Pippo Fava, Vito Ciancimino's cement, the Inzerillos, the Badalamenti, the Buscettas, the advent of Totò Riina. Ask strong, ask no and ask more. It is the city of Palermo that for the first time, during the mandate of Elda Pucci, the Doctor, becomes a civil party in a mafia trial. If we could explain the Cosa Nostra as to children, everything would be different. Yet the simplest words, at times, are the hardest to find, the ones that only the theater can say. An actress, an ensemble of voices, the stage: the story of a woman, a city, a year. Ottavia Piccolo and the Soloists of the Multiethnic Orchestra of Arezzo return to confront themselves on stage with the words of Stefano Massini, to give shape and structure to a necessary, civil theater, in which the story of ethics passes through words, stamps and the actions of those who often have no voice: characters like Haifa in Occident Express or like Elda in Cosa Nostra explained to children.
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