One in Three (Una su Tre)

Written and performed by
Tracy Walsh Caputo

Directed by
Flavio Marigliani

Produced by
Teatro Multilingue

Audience age recommendation
14+

THE STORY – Alba (Dawn in English) is a successful woman, both in her work and public life. But in her private life, Alba is the victim of domestic violence at the hands of the men in her life. Until she instinctively reacts and, faced with yet another violent attack from her husband, she pushes him, making him fall down the stairs involuntarily causing his death. This event completely short-circuits her personality and lands her in a psychiatric institution.
Alba carries several wounds, scars from the violence of which she was a victim, and each wound transforms itself into a voice of her soul that is embodied in a historical character. Alba thus becomes all the women who have experienced an abusive situation, in the present and the past, and by listening and making the voices that live in her soul her own, by identifying with them, she finally finds the way back to life, to return to the light, precisely like a new dawn.

The show has been performed in Rome, Italy; and in Göteborg, Sweden. A Women’s Festival named after the show was presented in Rome in November 2023.