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At Theatre Three of Catania, Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 May 2009, will stage "It was my daughter" by Luigi Catanese Favara, directed by John Scuto, played by Liliana Scalia, Stephanie Micale, Cettina Giorgianni, Roberto Luigi Favara Pricoco and the same.

The play, presented as part of cultural activities and performances, of the "Over-the-scenes" deals with pedophilia and does this through realistic descriptions and metaphysical truth of the theater, and avant-garde Greek tragedy Euripides, with glimpses of our land and our traditions to the enunciation, represented very effectively by the actors, some articles of "International Convention on the Rights of the Child" .

"It was my daughter tells of a Sicilian mother, who emigrated with her daughter thirteen due to force majeure, in the hills of Veneto, suddenly finds himself living in one of the worst a parent can imagine to spend, "rape and violent death of her daughter" at the hands of a pedophile.

The purpose of the representation is to focus attention on a subject, unfortunately, the current dramatically, not only denouncing the crime itself, but also highlighting the absence of bodies in charge of defense and safety of children.

Pedophilia is an uncomfortable subject , not easy to deal with, the implications not only moral but also involves religious (think Sex crimes and Vatican , video scandal of 2006, documenting the sexual abuse of minors by clergy in Ireland and reveals the operations of the Vatican, accused of trying to cover up the various cases). Cinema, theater and literature have, oftentimes, addressed the issue of pedophilia, although sometimes it was a difficult path, is an example of "Animanera" Raffaele Verzillo debut, the film made in 2006 failed to find a home distribution, well after 2 years, except at the box office flop. A masterpiece of cinema of our house is, however, "Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti of '71, from the novel by Thomas Mann," Death in Venice " the film tells the attraction of a musician for fifty Polish teenager, presented at the 24th Cannes Film Festival. And, not to mention, "The Bad Education" by Pedro Almodovar which tells the story of two gay teenagers and a priest, Father Manolo, or, "Mystic River" directed by Clint Eastwood, who won two Oscar and a Golden Globe. of 2008, "Doubt" film, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley's film adaptation of the homonymous drama. 1964, in a school in the Bronx, a priest is suspected of abusing a boy of color, among the actors Meryl Streep, which for this film earned an Oscar nomination 2009.

Shanley's work was revived on Italian stages, in the latter theater season, starring Stefano Accorsi, directed by Sergio Castellitto. The drama deals with the topic of pedophilia in the reinterpretation of the famous Juan Mayorga ago by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "The pifferiaio magic." "Mayorga of Hamelin," says the investigation into an alleged case of sexual harassment suffered by a child. "Bangkok" trilogy by Renato Giordano, is rather a shock comedy which tackles the issue of sex tourism, which is the core theme of the play, directed by Giulio Cavalli, "Children Rocking. "

The theme of pedophilia was the focus of many pages of literature , treated either explicitly or in a more veiled, it is unnecessary to say that Pasolini, markettaro, but secular convinced, perhaps, only a homosexual as one of its "Boys Life ". Among the Sicilian writers, Camilleri, deals, it is "the taking of Macallè", set in 1935 during the Ethiopian war, the novel tells the story of Michelino abused by Professor Gorgerino is in the investigations that cross Montalbano also, the lives of abused children.

article Milena Vigneri
(Source: siciliatoday.net)