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 medicine treats the female body.
The woman takes care of herself (kills the party)
Julia Haenni / Giulia Rumasuglia
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Teatro Foce
25.-
Wed 28.04
20:00
The woman takes care of herself (kills the party)
Julia Haenni / Giulia Rumasuglia
Right of First Refusal
show in production
LAC+ members have first refusal starting December 1.
Sales open to the general public starting December 8.
Teatro Foce
25.-
Wed 28.04
20:00
A woman is in pain and goes to the doctor—the first one, the second, the third. None of these doctors has a solution for her lower abdominal pain. Nor do they take her seriously.
The
woman heals herself (kills the party)
dramatizes the centuries-old history of the patriarchal view of the female body and, with it, the history of Western medicine, which until recently showed no interest—and even less funding for research—in diseases that did not affect male bodies. With humor and intelligence, the script debunks scientific myths in all their stubborn persistence and exposes their absurdity.
Straddling 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, and console one another; and also to dance. In the end, they search for the words that might describe tomorrow. They start with their bodies to arrive at a universal question: how can we invent a life that is truly our own?