Tina's War is the story of a girl overwhelmed by the events of World War I.
From her arrest and imprisonment in the Katzenau camp to her difficult return to life after the war, the monologue recounts the condition of women, power, oppression, and the growing shadow of fascism, intertwining history, resistance, and love in a tale of struggle and memory.
directed by Maura Pettorruso
dramaturgy by Renato Barrella
with Maria Vittoria Barrella
Tina dreams. Tina lives. Tina observes. Her world is a dreamlike, candid space, a place in the mind where past, present, and future intertwine without boundaries. It is a refuge of freedom in a universe imprisoned by war. White sheets transform into the ghosts of her past and fragments of her imagination, projections of a future yet to be written. The grand history and Tina's small story merge seamlessly. Distant echoes resound, shaking her fragile understanding of the world, attempting to make sense of the inexplicable, of the inhuman cruelty of war. Caporetto, Battisti, distant chronicles and figures come to life in her pure and naive gaze, in a present that does not belong to her, too vast, too ferocious. The only way to survive is to dream.
