Following the staged reading presented as part of the Vetrina Prismi 2025 festival, the play by Aargau-based author Julia Haenni returns to the stage in a production directed by Giulia Rumasuglia. Through an exploration of language and the creation of neologisms, the play examines the sexism with which the medical profession treats the female body.

A woman is in pain and goes to the doctor – the first, the second, the third. None of these white-coated professionals has a solution for her lower abdominal pain. Nor do they take her seriously.
La donna si cura (kills the party) brings to the stage the centuries-old history of the patriarchal gaze on the female body and, with it, the history of Western medicine, which until recently showed no interest – and even less funding for research – in illnesses that did not affect male bodies. With humour and intelligence, the text unmasks scientific myths in their stubborn persistence and reveals their absurdity.
Somewhere between seriousness and burlesque, the show gives voice to a polyphony of voices created by the three actresses on stage, who attempt – with varying degrees of success – to listen to one another, understand one another, console one another; and also to dance. In the end, they search for the words that might describe tomorrow. They start from their bodies to arrive at a universal question: how can we invent a life that is truly our own?