NO

The performance is in English.

This performance was born out of the need to process wounds related to experiences of abuse, where my boundaries were crossed without my ability to defend myself. However, it also explores my inherent difficulty in recognizing and establishing those boundaries.

“NO” is what I often wished I had said but didn’t—perhaps out of shame, fear, recklessness, or naivety. It is deeply personal to me, yet I feel it speaks to a broader, more universal issue. Or rather, let’s call it a gendered issue. Because I believe that the roots of this fear of raising our voices, this need to be obedient and devoted to be accepted, are deeply social and weigh most heavily on women.

On stage, a performer faces the demands of the outside world, embodied by a microphone—a symbol, a medium, and an amplifier of speech—but she is also its victim. The microphone turns questions into demands that expect no answer, harassing her both verbally and physically. She finds the strength to act the moment she allows herself to rebel, taking control of it, and becoming a subject who makes her voice heard.

AWARDS
- Hollywood Fringe Festival Award, for which he is invited to perform in Hollywood in June 2025
- Special Mention of the Prague Fringe Festival "For Most Innovative Show"
- Special Mention of the Avignon Fringe Festival
- Valentina Nicosia Fund Award for the emerging artist and Claudia Lombardi Foundation Award (within the final of the Teatri Riflessi 9 Festival)
- Winner of the Bando Non Addomesticabili 2024
- Mention of the popular jury of the Tuttoteatro.com "Dante Cappelletti" Award

With the support of Centro Servizi Culturali S.Chiara, AriaTeatro ETS, Pergine Festival and Tuttoteatro.com