Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 – Human Rights

The book Un'idea più grande di me (An idea bigger than me) is a compilation of the extensive experience of Armando Punzo (Italy), who has been in theatre for over 40 years. Punzo, winner of a career Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice Theatre Biennial, is a director, playwright and actor. Since 1988 he has been working at Volterra prison, where he founded the Compagnia della Fortezza, the first and longest-lasting theatre experience in a penitentiary institution, currently made up of around 70 prisoner-actors. The co-author of the book, Rossella Menna (Italy), teaches Literature and the Philosophy of Theatre at the Accademia di Brera (Milan) and co-edits the theatre column in the cultural publication Doppiozero. She has also edited a number of films and has recently written Qualcosa di sé: Daria Deflorian e il suo teatro, about the life and career of this actor, author and theatre director. In conversation with Andrés Luque Ruiz de Somocurcio.

Simultaneous interpretation from Italian to Spanish available