In the Name of Mary

This event is part of
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY 2025

Theatrical Performance
In the Name of Mary

Written and Directed by
Chiara Gambino

Original Music by
Domenico Gargano

With
Chiara Gambino and Alba Sofia Vella

Mauro Rostagno Award 2021 (Best Script, Best Actress)
DaSud special award for the fight against mafias
Last Summer Moon Festival 2021
Special Mention Città Laboratorio 2021
Franco Delivery Official Selection 2020
Official Selection Catania Fringe 2022

The show is inspired by and reworks a mafia news story that occurred in Palermo on 14 November 1982 and which led to the death of the young Sicilian policeman Calogero Zucchetto, who in that period was working with the Palermo Mobile Squad in the search for mafia affiliates. The point of view of the show is from his girlfriend Maria Lo Bello, tormented in the years following the loss by the question: “Could it have gone differently?”. For the entire duration of the show, the protagonist responds unaware to this question, with a true and ironic, fragile and disenchanted stream of consciousness, recounting the meeting and pursuing the love that led her to get engaged to Calogero (Lillo for friends) Zucchetto.

In Italian with English Supertitles

Running Time: 55 min