The name Pasqua Selis Zau, known as Paskedda Zau, will mean nothing to some. Yet she is the commoner from Nuoro, mother, widow, of ten children, who on April 26, 1868 unleashed the popular uprising against the effects of the Legge delle Chiudende (the legislative provision issued in 1820 during the Savoy domination in Sardinia, which authorized the enclosure of lands that until then had traditionally been considered collective property, effective...

“La capretta di Maria” is a show designed to talk to the little ones about the work of Maria Lai and allow them to take a journey to discover the value and meanings of art in our lives”, explains Rita Atzeri. She adds: “In this poetic journey we have fused some biographical elements of Maria’s life with the narration of some fairy tales revisited by her. We imagined that our ‘theatrical box’, stripped of blacks and made white for th...

Gene mangia gene, is a bilingual show in Italian and Campidanese Sardinian. The performance, tinged with caustic irony, allows for careful reflection on the foods we put on the table and shows us, ourselves: excited and sweaty while driving a trolley through the aisles of a supermarket; happy and eager for “something good” while watching TV; falsely contrite for the death of a worker on a banana plantation; participating in Monsanto’s pain;...