Yes, the title is the same as the short film I created in my second year. I like this title so much, as 'Fuori Programma' means 'Unscheduled' or 'Off plan', which explains perfectly the role women's memories have in the discourse about Italian terrorism.

'Fuori Programma' will be a live performance that will stage the memories of a group of Italian women who took part in the research “Performing Stragismo and Counter-spectacularisation: Italian right-wing Terrorism and Its Legacies” as participants/interviewees. Their memories will be performed by a group of students (BAs, MAs and PhDs) who will be engaged in a weekly theatre workshop in Italian language.

The workshop, known as 'Italian Play', is a historical institution at the Literatures Languages and Cultures Department and it was run, in the past, by Prof. Carlo Pirozzi, who left Edinburgh in 2020.

Devising the performance in this workshop will allow me to work cross-generationally, exposing a younger generation of students, learning the Italian language, to an important decade in Italian history.

The live performance will be the third and final outcome of my research, which previously was presented as the above mentioned 10-minute short film (Being Human Festival; ConnectFest at CCA, Glasgow; Davamot conference, Sweden) and as an installation (SIS conference 2022; SGSAH Summer School).

Performing the collective memory of Italian political violence, I will investigate gaps and historical inaccuracies, asking what are the reasons behind them and opening up the conversation to the role of the media in shaping a nation’s political awareness and collective memories.
I believe a multimedia live performance will be the best way to include in the work controversial and inaccurate memories, giving them the necessary context. The participants’ stronger memories originated from a physical engagement with the senses; a live performance will offer the audience the same ‘gift of presence’ and its ephemerality will best match the memories’ texture.