Clips from La Fricchettona, "Una Madre - A Mother" by Dario Fo & Franca Rame ~ NYC 2006

"Is it really possible that none of you, of us, of them, feel even the slightest bit responsible?"

In this sobering monologue by Nobel laureate Dario Fo & Franca Rame, a middle-class Mother reckons with the inconceivable realization that her own son had become a terrorist with the Brigata Rossa, 1970s Italy.

Una Madre - A Mother
Performed & Translated by Sandi Higgins
Directed by Orietta Crispino
at Theaterlab NYC November 10-20, 2006

This was performed as the 2nd monologue in the original one-woman show:

LA FRICCHETTONA
3 Monologues by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
- La Mamma Fricchettona (1977)
- Una Madre (1980)
- Lo Stupro (1975)

"La Fricchettona presents three portraits of women in Italy during an extraordinary time of recent history. Dario Fo and Franca Rame's unique ability to distill and summarize the social environment is evident here in three of their more dramatic texts."

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