Theatrical show commemorates late Italian Nobel prize winner

TIRANA, Feb. 26 – The memoirs, impressions and passions of Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel prize winner for medicine, are coming to Albania in a special theatrical show mixing words, images and sounds shaping the portrait of Italy’s most famous scientist.
Directed by Valeria Patera also the protagonist of the show, Le parole di Rita (the Words of Rita), through a desk, a chair, a microscope and six videoclips brings back Rita Levi-Montalcini’s memoirs to the public. The science and art show us the figure of the Nobel Prize winner inspired by the autobiography and the letters she sent to her mother and twin sister from the United States. The result is a show where one must be all eyes and ears. Valeria Patera offers an unusual mix of words, images and sounds depicting an unexpected portrait of the great scientist, organizers say.
The theatrical piece by Valeria Patera will make its Albania premiere at the Petro Marko theatre of the southern city of Vlora on March 6 at 18.00 before staging at the newly established Theatre of Comedy in Tirana two days later on March 8 at 19.00.
Since 2003 author and director Valeria Patera has been carrying out ground breaking formal researches into the interdisciplinary areas linking art, science and philosophy. Patera reminds us of the need to go beyond present linguistic frontiers and create new models of artistic representation.
A writer and theatre director, Valeria Patera is the president of TIMOS Teatro eventi – an Italian group that promotes creative dialogue between Art & Science, pursuing a new model of representation that captures voices and issues of contemporary life across art and science.
Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). From 2001 until her death she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life.