A Précieuse Name: Alcra @Spazio Matta - Pescara

Saturday 21 November at 9 pm
Spazio Matta, Via Gran Sasso 53, Pescara
Part of R- Esistenti – Festival of Feminist Narratives
Curated by Maglab in collaboration with Spazio Matta

A Précieuse Name: Alcra
A staged sharing of material from I am Armande! by Carla Lonzi
Created by Fiorenza Menni and Andrea Mochi Sismondi
Performed by Fiorenza Menni and Margherita Kay Budillon

A Précieuse Name: Alcra is the opening movement of Ateliersi’s diptych dedicated to Carla Lonzi, which comprises I am Armande! (2025) and Shut Up. Or Rather, Speak. Diary of a Feminist, 1972–1977 (2026).

The work invites audiences into the creative process surrounding Lonzi’s final research, which focused on the Précieuses movement that emerged in seventeenth-century France.

Lonzi encounters the Précieuses through Molière’s Les Précieuses ridicules and Les Femmes savantes, recognising their experience as a key point of reference for feminist thought.

Convinced that theatre reflects real situations, she looks to the stage for the kinds of relationships she recognises in her own life when “one refuses to grant men certain privileges”.

The showing invites the audience to take an active part in the exchange, with the aim of creating a space for open, attentive and thoughtful dialogue.