{"id":59687,"date":"2019-11-26T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/11\/tunisi-piece-teatrale-sul-caso-franca-viola-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:42:50","slug":"tunisi-piece-teatrale-sul-caso-franca-viola-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2019\/11\/tunisi-piece-teatrale-sul-caso-franca-viola-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunis: A play about the Franca Viola Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis will stage\u00a0<i>&#8216;La donna che disse no\u2019<\/i>\u00a0(the woman who said no) at the\u00a0<i>Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Le 4\u00e8me Art\u00a0<\/i>in Tunis, performed by the\u00a0<i>Onirika del Sud\u00a0<\/i>theatre group and directed by Pierpaolo Saraceno.\u00a0The play is loosely based on the story of Franca Viola and has been performed over two hundred times since 2016, winning nine national prizes. It tells the story of the first time a \u2018rehabilitating marriage\u2019 was actually refused, going on to become a symbol for civil growth and the emancipation of Italian women in post-war Italy. It was then 1965, when article 544 of the Criminal Code stated that the crime of rape could be extinguished if the rapist went on to marry his victim.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks to Franca Viola\u2019s courage, article 544 was repealed in 1981 even though rape only became legally recognised as a crime \u2018against the person\u2019 in Italy in 1996 in addition a crime against \u2018public morality\u2019. The performance will be preceded by a meeting with students at the\u00a0<i>Institut Sup\u00e9rieur des Sciences Humaines<\/i>\u00a0in Tunis, to talk about Franca Viola and the legal consequences of her choice to rebel against a \u2018rehabilitating marriage\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis will stage\u00a0&#8216;La donna che disse no\u2019\u00a0(the woman who said no) at the\u00a0Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Le 4\u00e8me Art\u00a0in Tunis, performed by the\u00a0Onirika del Sud\u00a0theatre group and directed by Pierpaolo Saraceno.\u00a0The play is loosely based on the story of Franca [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,6],"class_list":["post-59687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}