W O M E N O N T H E V E R G E
Stunning. Chilling.
I desperately wanted to look
away to avoid the pain but I was mesmerised and
just had to go through the pain with the women.
Samsara Dunston,
Planet Arts Melbourne
Women on the verge is a moment in the life of four different women in four different realities and how these four different women face each life, most of them bring some comic elements but there is an ironic view that allow us to be critical.
On 17 to 21 of June we presented the play “Women on the verge” based on 8 Monologues for women” by The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 Dario Fo and Franca Rame at La Mamma Theatre in Melbourne.
Women on the verge was very well received by the audience and by the critic, it confirmed what we expected, an impact, a thrilling experience also a moment for reflection. We select four monologues and we created a connection between them; it is a show, a performance where four women dance, sing and act.
This performance is set in a basic and minimalistic stage so it can be show in a variety of stages from the classic theatre stage to a regular size room. Also, because of the type of dramatic structure the play can be separate and performed as one monologue alone.
Fucking Terrific!
These women could kick you in
the balls and you’d still fall to
your knees in admiration of their
political activism
Peter Green,
103.5 FM 3MBS
Four Cabaret dancers in an almost empty space.
Only four chairs with
an old and almost broke backdrop without time. They only move if it is
necessary but one can see that something is happening in their soul
and the have much to say.
Based on Dario Fo and Franca Rame's 8 Monologues of Women on the
Verge is a political play - a bitter and desperate series of monologues.
The Whore in a Lunatic Asylum
The prostitute is a temporary patient
in a Lunatic Asylum. She suffers
some type of psychological episode
where she lost her mental clarity and
does things that she is not able to
remember. She is in a room where
she is going to be assessed by a
woman doctor. This assessment is
a pretext to tell this woman story:
her childhood, the chances she had
to become a “
respectful” woman in a
society full of discrimination and not
real opportunities
The Rape
Is a gritty narration of a rape in
present tense however it is also
sober and sensible one. It
describe step by step one of the
most horrible abuse of power
but necessary to move people
to denounce it .
The woman alone
She is alone in her apartment
taking care of her brother in law
who had a terrible accident. She
is able to see a woman
neighbour in the opposite
building and starts a
conversation throughout this
conversation the woman alone
reveals her story.
The Awakening
A young mother wife and worker
wake up just in time for prepare
herself and prepares her baby to
leave the apartment and take the
baby to the childcare and go to
the factory but accidents happen
and she can’t find the keys. It is
the exercise of remembering
where she left the keys when she
tells her story, her relationship
with her husband and how she see
the world where she lives. It is a
monologue full of positive attitude
and laugh.
