Olympe

The project consists of creative activities that aim to sensitize youths regarding legality and social marginalization with the involvement of women who are ex-prisoners and actors of the “Olympe” play, which is staged in connection with the ‘Le donne del Muro Alto’ (women of the high wall) project which has been carried out by the Per Ananke association inside the women’s prison of Rebibbia for the last ten years. Theater is a valid instrument for personal and professional redemption for these women, who face difficulties in returning to civilian life.

The activities include the adaptation of the play Olympe in schools via weekly rehearsals, during which the script is studied and analyzed with support from the students of the Science Department training at the Roma Tre University.

A total of 8 meetings to educate about legality are also foreseen at three, first level secondary schools in Tor Bella Monaca, Labaro and Pomezia, and at the Juvenile Penitentiary of Casal del Marmo (Rome), held by women who are ex-prisoners sentenced to alternative means of detention. In this context, theater is the main instrument used to provide and consolidate competencies, among which active listening of oneself and others, the development of critical thought, dealing with problems and searching for creative and innovative solutions with regard to one’s life experience.

Finally, “Olympe” is staged for the selected schools at the Vittoria Theater in Rome, preceded and followed by a series of meetings dedicated to detention and post-detention, and the role of art and culture in the prison context, with the involvement of institutions, experts and the testimony of the company’s actors.