Event #5

This touching performance by Renato Sarti (text and stage direction) tells the experience of a paramedic who by chance went to work at the Trieste psychiatric hospital.
Straitjackets, lobotomies, electroshocks… such were psychiatric hospitals before the introduction of the legislation named after Dr. Basaglia—isolated places where all sorts of violence and torture were perpetrated. Then things changed: the main task of hospital staff was no longer just keeping watch on the patients but listening and talking to them. This inevitably set off a strange dynamics where the boundary separating madness from sanity was exposed in all its precariousness. With her light touch and her surprising expressiveness, Giulia Lazzarini interprets on stage the nurse—a simple woman—who becomes aware of the human meaning, as well the scientific value, of the revolution brought about by that unusual doctor.