During Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Ammodo Art supports two productions within the incises programme. Accabadora is an adaptation by composer Francesco Filidei of the novel with the same name by Michela Murgia. Valentina Carrasco is the stage director.

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Sardinia in the 1950s. A village still steeped in ancestral traditions. As is custom, Maria, the youngest child in an overly large family, is adopted by Tzia Bonaria, who has no children of her own. Feared and respected, Bonaria is an accabadora: a seamstress by day, she weaves the thread of life; and standing in for the Fates at night, she cuts it, putting an end to prolonged agonies. Will Maria accept her role as the daughter of this last mother, with all that it entails?

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Image: Francesco Filidei