Donatella Finocchiaro: “We are three ‘Taddarite’ to denounce violence against women”

Three bats, or better still three ‘taddarite’ as they say in Sicilian dialect and as the title of the show says, ‘Taddrarite’ (with the ‘r’ after the two ‘d’ to make the rounded sound of the consonant ‘d’ phonetically in the language of the island) on stage from Tuesday at the Sala Umberto in Rome. One of these ‘taddarites’ is Donatella Finocchiaro, who explains to AdnKronos: “With Claudia Potenza and Luana Rondinelli we are three sisters who have violent husbands in common: violence against women is the central theme of the show, tackled in a serious way. but also grotesque and sarcastic, with comic moments alternating with other truly dramatic ones, tickling both emotional strings to denounce this social scourge, against which no norm is ever too much to eradicate, because there is also psychological violence in addition to physical violence , which is more subtle because it leaves the bruises not on the body but in the soul “. For Donatella Finocchiaro, “the winning force of this show is the text, the theatrical and scenic writing of Luana Rondinelli, an author who will make a lot of talk about herself. We put ourselves at stake emotionally, both as actresses and as women. L he temporal setting is not defined, we could be in the post-war years as in the 2000s; the geographical setting, on the other hand, is clearly identifiable: Sicily “, which is also the land of Donatella Finocchiaro, from Catania. “During a wake – explains the actress -” all the incrustations and flaws of these suspended lives come out; I play perhaps the most resolute character, who had the strength to divorce her abusive husband, but also the most cynical, who no longer believes in love and feelings “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)