THEATRE OF THE MILAN OPERA PRISON

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4th November 2025 at 14:30

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Reservations required by Sunday 19th October: click here or send an email to valentina.cerutti@unicatt.it indicating your name, surname, place and date of birth and attaching a scanned PDF of an identity document.

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The performance, held under the academic and scientific direction of Professor Elisabetta Matelli, represents a moment of deepl reflection and growth on the ever-relevant theme of nonviolent communication. It emerges from the reworking of personal experiences shared by the detainees who took part in the project.

The Course exlored rhetorical question with ethical, relational, psychological and legal implications. Partecipants were guided in recreating scenes through role-playing exercises aimed at representing and undertanding those moments that either fuel or defuse violent form of communication. Through shared reflection and pratical experimentation, they investigated how words give shape to thoughts, how thoughts can in turn be transformed by certain words, and how our actions may themselves become unspoken words.

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Scientific direction

Elisabetta Matelli - Full Professor of Rhetoric and Forms of Persuasion 

 

Speakers

Mara Gorli - Full Professor of Psychology of Relationships

Maria Teresa Galli - Researcher in Rhetoric and Forms of Persuasion

Lorenzo Volpi Lutteri - Actor and theatre trainer

Auretta Sterrantino - Research fellow, playwright and actress

Lisa Zanzottera - Author and actress

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