To the woman who makes every moment unforgettable
by Joséphine Bohr
staged reading directed by Fabiana Iacozzilli
with Anahì Traversi
Muette
by Lea Ferrari
staged reading directed by Vittorio Parri
with Francesca Mazza, Leda Kreider
Past event
07 May 2026
Teatrostudio
‘There’s nothing beautiful about motherhood in this piece,’ I was told. For me, it’s a snapshot of dark circles and wrinkles, a snapshot of blessed exhaustion.
To the woman who makes every moment unforgettable is an ongoing exploration, blending original texts, recordings and sounds in an encounter of women’s bodies and voices. Choral fragments of one of the most defining and disruptive experiences of our existence.
Muette is a prayer for my mother. Rita is named after the famous singer but cannot hear music; she is deaf. Deaf, but not mute. She has a voice, albeit slightly out of tune, which in the past was strictly trained by the nuns of the Ingenbohl Congregation at the Sant’Eugenio College in Locarno. A text that calls for us to listen to deaf people, from whom we take away a right every time we fail to pay attention to their form of expression, their way of seeing and being in society, their culture.
Josephine Bohr’s work explores intimate and personal themes in relation to the collective dimension. Absence, solitude, mourning; in her projects, which straddle the boundary between writing and performance, words listen to the body. She is the author of Il titolo me lo trovavi sempre tu (Luminanza, 2022) and La terra trema (Mendrisio Art Museum, 2023) . Together with Camilla Parini, she is part of the Danse et Dramaturgie Suisse programme (2024/26). To the woman who makes every moment unforgettable (Prismi, 2025/26) is her latest solo work.
An Italian director and playwright, she pursues research centred on stage dramaturgy and the expressive potential of the performer. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Teatro Vascello since 2013 and has collaborated with Cranpi and Carrozzerie N.O.T. since 2017. In 2008, she founded the Lafabbrica theatre company and has been a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab since 2011. Her productions include: *Aspettando Nil*, with which she won the Undergroundzero Festival in New York; *La trilogia dell’attesa*, winner of the Play Festival (Atir and Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d'Europa); Da soli non si è cattivi. Tre atti unici dai racconti di T. Tomasulo; La classe, which won the CURA 2018 interregional residency competition, the 2019 In-Box Award, the 2019 ANCT Critics’ Award and received four nominations at the 2019 Ubu Awards (best sound design won by H. Westkemper). In July 2020, Una cosa enorme premiered at the 2020 Biennale Teatro and was restaged at REF2021. In 2021, he directed Abitare il ritorno, a community theatre project conceived by Asinitas and included in INCROCI – an exchange project between organisations using theatre as a tool for cultural interaction – and in the international theatre exchange project Literacy Act. In 2022, Abitare il ritorno won the CIVIS Open/Lab/Civic Engagement Call for Proposals – ‘Teatro delle migrazioni’ Theatre Festival.
In 2022, she curated the staging of *En Abyme* for the 2022 Venice Biennale. In 2025, she staged *OLTRE* – how 16+29 people survived the Andes disaster, written in collaboration with Linda Dalisi.
Selected for Luminanza (2023) and Prismi (2025), author of the radio play ‘La Scuola ticinese’ and of ‘Valchera's’, produced by the Unione Ticinese di Londra to mark its 150th anniversary. I work as an agronomist and spatial planner in the Canton of Ticino. I live in the Blenio Valley.
Vittorio is a director and producer from Ticino based in London. He recently graduated from the Mountview Academy of Dramatic Arts and is co-founder of Migraine Theatre, a company specialising in physical theatre and devised theatre, with which he presented ‘The Monkey’, a play about men’s mental health. In 2025, he directed ‘Danzig’ by Sofia Reggiani, and is currently preparing to co-direct ‘Warewolf’ for February 2026. For him, Valchera represents an opportunity to bring Ticino and the UK together, thus bridging his past with the present.
