L'inferiorità mentale della donna

Veronica Pivetti
Can the idea that women have been considered, for centuries, to be physiologically deficient suggest anything? Our show is born from this question and puts in scene texts that few know, among the most discriminating, paradoxical and, despite them, exilaranti rational writings of the last century. Veronica Pivetti, modern Mary Shelley tells us, thanks to bizarre theories of science and medicine, the only true, horror Frankenstein of modern history: the woman. "What is the situation with regard to the sexes? An old proverb suggests: long hair, short brain". Thus begins Paul Julius Moebius- assistant in the neurology section of Leipzig - in the small compendium "The mental inferiority of women" written in 1900, aptly defined as an evergreen of reactionary thought. Women with small skulls, insufficient weight of the brain... according to Moebiusle ladies are provided with a total lack of own judgments. Not only. Women who claim to think are harassing and "reflection only makes them worse". These statements are echoed by the Italian doctor, anthropologist, jurist and criminologist Cesare Lombroso: women lie and often kill, sayings from all regions. Fortunately, the brains of healthy women weigh more than those of criminal women. And here is a quick excursussus of excellent crimes, for example that carried out by Agrippina, or by Leonarda Cianciulli, the saponificatrice of Correggio. To accompany Veronica on stage, the musician Anselmo Luisi who, together with the actress, will perform old and new songs inspired by the female figure. With this show, embellished by delirious measurements of the cephalic index to which Veronica undergoes his irony, we will reach the height of male culture. Patient herself - causes a past depression - Pivetti does not fail to tell the public some singular personal episodes and to remember, with the words of Lombroso, that "the male is a more perfect female".