Il mare a cavallo is about Felicia Bartolotta, Peppino Impastato's mother torn apart by a bomb on the railway Trapani-Palermo on the 9th of May 1978.
Peppino was killed by the mob, which right away tries to deflect the investigations by saying it was a terrorist attack. Felicia can't seem to accept it, she refuses the rule of silence that would make her stay stuck in her pain and breaks up with her husband's family.
The play starts with Felicia's funeral: from the coffin, while the funeral is happening, the woman looks at the neighbors and tells her story again, sometimes with passion, sometimes with a detachment that almost reaches irony.
In the play Felicia speaks directly to us, while living again the biggest moments of her story: that's how the viewer gets to know other characters, letting them find out a story forty years old, but still current today.
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