Women's equality Festival/ Reading Lolita in Tehran

There is also theatre, or rather, a reading concert, among the initiatives scheduled for the Women's equality Festival taking place in Lecce and aimed at supporting gender equality and female entrepreneurship as drivers of development. Welcoming "Reading Lolita in Tehran", a performance based on Azar Nafisi's book of the same name, is the Apollo theatre which, thanks to the direction of Cinzia Spanò, on stage with Roberta Di Mario and Pegah Moshir Pour, becomes the living room of the author's home where "clandestine" meetings with female students were held following pressure from the Islamic Republic. The reading, born out of a desire to support the protests that broke out in Iran in September 2022 after the arrest and death of Mahsa Amini for not wearing her headscarf properly, was sponsored by Amnesty International. The images are taken from the photographic project My Stealthy Freedom Iran by Marinka Masséus while the video production is by Elvio Longato. Duration: 70 minutes.

Admission free of charge, subject to availability. Registration required.

https://www.wefestival.it/eventi/leggere-lolita-a-teheran/