Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo at Teatro Vittoria, February 23 to 28, 2027

Donna non rieducabile, the show by Stefano Massini dedicated to the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, with Ottavia Piccolo and directed by Silvano Piccardi, is at Teatro Vittoria, Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice 10 (00153 Rome), from February 23 to 28, 2027, for six performances. The times change every day: Tuesday the 23rd at 21:00, Wednesday the 24th at 17:00, Thursday the 25th and Friday the 26th at 21:00, Saturday the 27th at 19:00, Sunday the 28th at 17:30. Vittoria is in the heart of Testaccio and is reached by Metro Line B, Piramide stop, about a 10-minute walk away, or by tram 3 on Via Marmorata. The full-price ticket costs €27 in the orchestra and €21 in the gallery, plus a €3 presale fee. Tickets are bought on the official Teatro Vittoria website, on the authorized presale network indicated by the theater, or at the box office on Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice.

Language: performed in Italian. No English version or English surtitles are announced.

Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. 20 years later, the show that Massini built from her articles and her autobiographical writings returns on tour in the 2026/2027 season, in a new production by Officine della Cultura and Argot Produzioni. With its 200 performances, says the theater, it is one of the most significant and long-lived cases of contemporary Italian civic theater. On stage, alongside Ottavia Piccolo, is the harp music composed and performed live by Floraleda Sacchi.

Donna non rieducabile at Teatro Vittoria in brief

Donna non rieducabile is on at Teatro Vittoria in Rome from February 23 to 28, 2027, six performances at different times, with tickets from €27 in the orchestra and €21 in the gallery plus presale.

Dates and times

Tuesday, February 23 at 21:00, Wednesday the 24th at 17:00, Thursday the 25th at 21:00, Friday the 26th at 21:00, Saturday the 27th at 19:00, Sunday the 28th at 17:30. The running time is not published.

Prices

Full price: €27 in the orchestra, €21 in the gallery, plus a €3 presale fee. Reduced, Tuesday to Friday while promotional seats last, for under 35, over 65, people with a disability of at least 75 percent and members of affiliated organizations: €22 in the orchestra, €17 in the gallery, plus €3. Under 18: €13 in the orchestra, €11 in the gallery, plus €2.

Tickets

They are bought online on the presale network indicated by the official Teatro Vittoria website or at the box office, which does not accept American Express and Diners. The box office answers at 06 5740170 and 06 5740598.

The production

Officine della Cultura and Argot Produzioni, with the support of the Tuscany Region and the Ministry of Culture.

Donna non rieducabile: what happens on stage

Donna non rieducabile does not simply tell the biography of Anna Politkovskaya: it builds, as the author writes, a journey through the journalist's eyes, with a succession of scenes, fragments and snapshots.

The events recounted

The show takes the audience into the violence of the war in Chechnya, the tragedy of the Dubrovka theater in Moscow, the Beslan massacre and the gradual suffocation of freedom of information in post-Soviet Russia, according to the presentation by Teatro Vittoria.

A woman who went to see

Ottavia Piccolo gives voice to the bewilderment, the horror, the dignity and the irony of a woman who chose to go and look inside the events, paying with her life for her civic and professional stubbornness.

An essential stage

The show is built as a sequence of essential theatrical images, in which a few stage elements evoke a whole world of events. The director Silvano Piccardi has explained that he wanted to render a journalist's choice of truth in the most direct and anti-rhetorical form possible, without making her a character or a heroine.

The harp

Fundamental, says the theater, is the contribution of the harpist Floraleda Sacchi: her compositions, performed live, become an echo of war, the sonic matter of memory, the tension and poetic breath of the narration.

The cast and the artistic team

Donna non rieducabile is by Stefano Massini, with Ottavia Piccolo, directed by Silvano Piccardi, with harp music composed and performed live by Floraleda Sacchi.

The technical team

Technical direction by Katia Antonelli, lighting by Emilio Bucci, sound by Vanni Bartolini. The theater stresses that the new production combines the rigor of the first staging with the urgency of the present.

A passing of the baton

The collaboration between Officine della Cultura and Argot Produzioni marks, according to the presentation, a symbolic passing of the baton: the show, born almost 20 years ago, finds a new production home without changing its performers.

Since when it has been on stage

The sources do not agree on the year of birth: Teatro Vittoria gives the 2007/2008 season, while the encyclopedic sources on the director speak of a debut in 2009. In both cases, the show has gone through almost 20 years of Italian history with 200 performances.

Who Anna Politkovskaya was

Anna Politkovskaya, born in New York on August 30, 1958 and murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006, was a Russian journalist known for her reporting on the Second Chechen War and for her criticism of the Russian armed forces and governments during the presidency of Vladimir Putin.

Her origins

Born Anna Mazepa, the daughter of two Soviet diplomats of Ukrainian origin serving at the UN, she moved with her family to Moscow in 1962. In 1980 she graduated in journalism from Moscow State University with a thesis on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

The journalist

Her career began in 1982 at Izvestia. Her name is linked above all to Novaya Gazeta and to her work on human rights in Chechnya.

The murder

On October 7, 2006 she was killed in Moscow as she was returning home. The murder prompted a broad international mobilization. In June 2014 five men were convicted, but the people who ordered it have never been identified.

Her family

Married in 1978 to the television journalist Alexander Politkovsky, she had two children, Ilya and Vera. In 2023 Vera published a book on her mother's life and her passion for the truth.

Ottavia Piccolo, the lead

Ottavia Piccolo, born in Bolzano on October 9, 1949, is a theater, film and television actress who debuted at 11 and in 1970 won the prize for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival with Metello by Mauro Bolognini.

The child debut

At 11 she is Helen, the protagonist of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, directed by Luigi Squarzina alongside Anna Proclemer. In 1963 she makes her film debut as one of the daughters of the Prince of Salina in The Leopard by Luchino Visconti.

Strehler and Ronconi

In 1964 she meets Giorgio Strehler, who directs her in Le baruffe chiozzotte and then in King Lear. Among her theater teachers is also Luca Ronconi.

Cinema

For Metello, in 1970, she wins at Cannes, the Nastro d'Argento, a special David and a Globo d'Oro. She works with Pietro Germi in Serafino, with Claude Sautet, with Pierre Granier-Deferre, with Alain Delon in Zorro, in 1975, and with Ettore Scola in La famiglia, in 1987.

Television

The wider public remembers her in the TV dramas Il mulino del Po, La coscienza di Zeno and La Certosa di Parma, and in the series Chiara e gli altri. She lent her voice to Leia Organa, played by Carrie Fisher, in the Star Wars films.

Awards

In 1999 she wins the first edition of the Adelaide Ristori prize. In 2006 President Ciampi names her Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Silvano Piccardi, the director

Silvano Piccardi, born in Ponte San Pietro on January 1, 1946, is an actor, theater director and voice actor: since 1991 he has directed several shows starring Ottavia Piccolo.

A life on stage

He debuts on television in 1955, at nine, and in the theater at 12, touring with the company of Ernesto Calindri. He works with the Compagnia dei Giovani and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, but also with groups outside the traditional circuit such as the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano and the Gruppo della Rocca. From 1970 he adds directing and writing to acting, with shows for the Teatro dei Filodrammatici and the Teatro Pierlombardo in Milan.

With Ottavia Piccolo

He directs the actress in Buenos Aires non finisce mai, Terra di latte e miele by Manuela Dviri, Donna non rieducabile and Enigma, niente significa mai una cosa sola, from 2015, also on a text by Massini.

The voice

As a voice actor he has lent his voice to films, cartoons and video games: the best-known role is Dr. Neo Cortex.

Stefano Massini, the author

Stefano Massini, born in Florence on September 22, 1975, is a writer and playwright, author of Lehman Trilogy, translated into 38 languages and performed around the world.

With Ronconi

In 2001 he works at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano as a volunteer assistant to Luca Ronconi, who pushes him to write new texts. In 2005 he wins the Premio Tondelli with L'odore assordante del bianco.

The partnership with Ottavia Piccolo

In 2006 his Processo a Dio debuts, with a cast led by Ottavia Piccolo: a long artistic partnership begins. In 2014 Piccolo is among the 11 actresses of 7 minuti, directed by Alessandro Gassmann, later made into a film with Michele Placido.

Lehman Trilogy

International success comes with Lehman Trilogy, which tells the rise and decline of the Lehman dynasty taking the 2008 crisis as its starting point. In Italy it is first staged in an extended version, in 2015, by none other than Luca Ronconi, with two Ubu Prizes. The German version is staged simultaneously by six public theaters. In 2020 the Comédie-Française produces 7 minuti.

Donna non rieducabile around the world

In 2015 Lluís Pasqual directs the Catalan version of Donna non rieducabile at the Lliure in Barcelona. The text, born in Italy, has traveled like many of Massini's works.

A curiosity about Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo at Teatro Vittoria, February 23 to 28, 2027

The most surprising curiosity is about the places the show has reached. Donna non rieducabile, in Silvano Piccardi's staging, has also been performed at the European Parliament in Brussels. A television version was made for Rai 2, titled Il sangue e la neve, directed by Felice Cappa, presented at the 66th Venice Film Festival. A monologue born for Italian theaters became a document on freedom of the press heard in European institutions.

The second curiosity is about Ottavia Piccolo and the theater of the spoken word. The actress who at 11 was the lead in The Miracle Worker, directed by Luigi Squarzina, has become over the last 20 years the voice of Massini's civic theater: Processo a Dio, 7 minuti, Donna non rieducabile.

The third is a coincidence of dates. February 23, the day of the Rome opening, is also the anniversary of Ottavia Piccolo's appointment as Commander of the Republic, in 2006, the same year as the murder of Anna Politkovskaya.

Teatro Vittoria, the hall in Testaccio

Teatro Vittoria is the drama theater of Testaccio, at Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice 10, opened in its present form in December 1986 with 560 red velvet seats in front of a large stage.

From variety to cinema

In the early 1900s Vittoria was a two-story building facing an unpaved square, with a brand-new church across from it. Variety shows were staged. After the war the building was demolished and in its place rose an apartment building with a large cinema on the ground floor, with stalls and balcony, built by the entrepreneur Amati.

The birth of the drama theater

In May 1986 work began to transform the cinema into a drama theater, designed by the architect Enrico Nespega and wanted by Attilio Corsini and the Attori e Tecnici cooperative. In December of the same year the new Vittoria opened to the public. Since 2008 the artistic direction has been in the hands of Viviana Toniolo.

Beyond drama

Vittoria organizes literary teas, the Salviamo i Talenti series with the prize named after Attilio Corsini, and an acting school for spettAttori aged 5 to 105. For some shows it offers an audio description service.

Something nobody tells you about Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo at Teatro Vittoria, February 23 to 28, 2027

What is rarely said is how much the title weighs. Donna non rieducabile sounds like a sentence passed on someone who refuses to bend. In our view the show takes that sentence and turns it over, making it the portrait of a professional who never stopped asking questions.

The second thing is about the audience. Those who expect heavy theater of denunciation will be surprised: the presentation also speaks of irony, and Floraleda Sacchi's harp gives the evening an almost musical breath. It is not a rally, it is a story.

The third is practical: the times change every day. On Wednesday the 24th the show is at 17:00, an unusual afternoon time on a weekday. On Saturday the 27th it is at 19:00 and on Sunday the 28th at 17:30. Checking your ticket twice avoids showing up after the show has ended.

How to get to Teatro Vittoria

Teatro Vittoria, at Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice 10, is most simply reached by Metro Line B, Piramide stop, about a 10-minute walk away.

Metro Line B, Piramide stop

From the Piramide stop you cross Piazzale Ostiense, take Via Marmorata and bear toward the center of Testaccio until Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice. Piramide is also the hub for Roma Ostiense station and the train to Lido.

Tram 3

Tram 3 runs along Via Marmorata and drops you a few steps from the center of the neighborhood. For buses it is best to use the Atac route planner.

By car

Parking in the evening in Testaccio is difficult, especially on the weekend, when the neighborhood fills up for the trattorias. It is better to leave the car and use the metro.

The advice I give you for seeing Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo at Teatro Vittoria, February 23 to 28, 2027

My advice is to arrive with a few names in your head. Chechnya, the Dubrovka theater, Beslan: the show evokes them in fragments, and those who have an idea of the events of the 2000s in Russia grasp its force better. 10 minutes of reading before leaving is enough.

The second piece of advice is about the performance. If you can choose, in our view, take one of the Tuesday to Friday shows: the reduced price for under 35 and over 65 applies while promotional seats last, and the hall is more intimate. The Wednesday matinee at 17 is ideal for those coming with high school students.

The third is about the seat. For a monologue with live harp the orchestra is the best choice. The gallery costs €6 less and is a good alternative for those who decide at the last minute.

Last piece of advice: stay in your seat a few seconds longer at the end. The show asks for silence, and the silence before the applause is part of the evening.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely mentioned

It is well known that Ottavia Piccolo is a theater actress and an auteur cinema actress. It is mentioned far less that hers is the voice of Princess Leia in Star Wars, in the Italian dubbing of the films with Carrie Fisher. The voice that many viewers heard as kids in a galaxy far away is the same one that, at Vittoria, tells of Chechnya.

A second rarely cited fact is about the show's awards. In 2011 Donna non rieducabile received the Premio Enriquez for best direction, best text and best performance: a recognition for the whole team, from the author to the actress.

The third is about the harp. Floraleda Sacchi, born in Como in 1978, has played in halls such as Carnegie Hall, the Konzerthaus and the Gewandhaus and has recorded for Decca and Deutsche Grammophon. Since 2006 she has directed the LakeComo Festival. For a civic theater show, having a soloist of this level is far from a given.

The right photo to take at Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo at Teatro Vittoria, February 23 to 28, 2027

The right photo is taken outside, before going in: the facade of Vittoria on Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice, with the church across the way and the show poster. It is the square that saw the birth of the first Vittoria of variety shows and then of the drama theater.

During the show the phone stays off: in a monologue with live harp even the light of a screen disturbs. At the end, during the applause, an image of Ottavia Piccolo and Floraleda Sacchi together on stage is the right keepsake.

The third is a neighborhood one: on the way out, the lit-up square of Testaccio, with the trattorias open all around. A photo of working-class Rome after an evening on freedom of the press.

Around Teatro Vittoria: Testaccio

Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice is the center of Testaccio, the working-class district born in the late 1800s between the Tiber, the Aventine and Monte dei Cocci. An overview is on the page about what to see in Testaccio.

Mattatoio

A few minutes from the theater is ex Mattatoio, today a space for contemporary art: the place that gave the neighborhood its working-class identity.

The Pyramid and the Non-Catholic Cemetery

On the way to the metro you come across the Pyramid of Cestius and, right behind it, the Non-Catholic Cemetery, one of the quietest places in Rome.

The district museum

Museo diffuso del Rione Testaccio tells the history of the neighborhood through its places, from the public housing to the market.

Some important events that happened here in history

The history of Teatro Vittoria follows that of Testaccio. In the early 1900s Vittoria is a two-story building on a still unpaved square, in front of a newly built church and the first public housing of the district, the result of an international competition and assigned to carters and slaughterhouse workers. Variety is staged, and on that stage perform Aldo Fabrizi, Totò and Anna Magnani.

After World War II the old theater is demolished. The entrepreneur Amati builds in its place an apartment building with Cinema Vittoria on the ground floor, with stalls and balcony, for years the neighborhood's reference point for entertainment.

In May 1986 work begins to transform the cinema into a drama theater, wanted by Attilio Corsini and the Attori e Tecnici cooperative, designed by the architect Enrico Nespega. In December the new Vittoria opens with 560 red velvet seats. On January 5, 1990 the theater hosts the world premiere of Spettattori by Michael Frayn, in the presence of the author. In 2008 the artistic direction passes to Viviana Toniolo. In February 2027, 20 years after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Vittoria hosts the show that guards her voice.

Who has passed through Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo at Teatro Vittoria, February 23 to 28, 2027

From the stage of the first Vittoria, the variety one, passed Aldo Fabrizi, Totò and Anna Magnani, before becoming the faces of Italian cinema. Through the new Vittoria, since 1986, have passed the productions of Attori e Tecnici and many guest companies, and in 1990 a British playwright, Michael Frayn, who came to Testaccio for the world premiere of his comedy Spettattori.

In the history of the theater there are Attilio Corsini, actor, author and director, at the head of the cooperative until 2008, and Viviana Toniolo, co-founder and then artistic director. In the 2026/2027 season Vittoria also hosts Addue, Rumori fuori scena, L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù by Pirandello and, after Donna non rieducabile, Di isole e di città, Streghe da marciapiede, Non c'è due senza me and 13 13, the musical.

From February 23 to 28 through Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice pass Ottavia Piccolo, the actress of Visconti, Strehler and Bolognini, Floraleda Sacchi with her harp, the text by Stefano Massini and the direction of Silvano Piccardi. And, for six evenings, Anna Politkovskaya, with her words.

Where to eat before or after the show

Testaccio is the neighborhood of traditional Roman cooking, known for the dishes of the quinto quarto, a legacy of the nearby slaughterhouse: coda alla vaccinara, tripe, rigatoni with pajata.

Before 21:00

For the evening performances a dinner at 19 leaves enough margin. On the weekend the neighborhood trattorias fill up: booking is essential.

After the matinees

For the performances on Wednesday at 17, Saturday at 19 and Sunday at 17:30 the solution is dinner after the show, a stone's throw from the theater. For a lunch before the matinee there is Nuovo Mercato Testaccio, on opening days.

Accessibility, age and practical information

For access to the hall and seats for people with disabilities it is best to contact the Teatro Vittoria box office at 06 5740170 or 06 5740598 before buying. The reduced price is available for people with a disability of at least 75 percent.

With kids

Donna non rieducabile is a civic theater show suitable for high school students studying recent history and journalism. Under 18 admission costs €13 in the orchestra and €11 in the gallery, plus €2 presale.

Audio description

Vittoria offers an audio description service for some shows: if you need it, it is best to ask the box office if it is planned for these performances.

How to plan your Donna non rieducabile performance

With six performances at six different times, Donna non rieducabile at Vittoria fits almost any schedule: the choice of performance decides the rest of the day or evening.

The 21:00 evening shows

Tuesday the 23rd, Thursday the 25th and Friday the 26th at 21:00: an early dinner in Testaccio around 19:00 and then the theater, or an aperitivo and dinner after the show. On Friday the neighborhood is livelier.

The Wednesday matinee

Wednesday the 24th at 17:00: the ideal performance for retirees, for school groups or for those who prefer to get home early. You come out in time for dinner in a trattoria.

The weekend

Saturday the 27th at 19:00 and Sunday the 28th at 17:30: for those coming from outside Rome, Sunday afternoon lets you spend the morning between the Pyramid of Cestius and the Aventine and head home in the evening.

In the same week

On February 23, the very evening of the opening, at Auditorium Parco della Musica Concita De Gregorio and Erica Mou stage La cura: two evenings of spoken word, for those who love storytelling theater.

Late February in Rome: the time of the show

In late February Rome is in a low tourist season, with cool evenings and theaters full of a local audience: the right moment for drama.

The weather

Late February evenings are cool and sometimes rainy: an umbrella and a jacket are useful for the trip from the Piramide metro to the theater.

The 20th anniversary

On October 7, 2026, 20 years had passed since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. The 2026/2027 season tour was born for this anniversary, and the Rome performances in late February are one stop of it.

Frequently asked questions about Donna non rieducabile at Teatro Vittoria

When is Donna non rieducabile on in Rome?

Donna non rieducabile with Ottavia Piccolo is on at Teatro Vittoria in Rome from February 23 to 28, 2027: Tuesday the 23rd at 21, Wednesday the 24th at 17, Thursday the 25th and Friday the 26th at 21, Saturday the 27th at 19, Sunday the 28th at 17:30.

How much do tickets for Donna non rieducabile cost?

At Teatro Vittoria the full-price ticket for Donna non rieducabile costs €27 in the orchestra and €21 in the gallery, plus a €3 presale fee. There are reduced prices from Tuesday to Friday for under 35 and over 65 and an under 18 reduced price from €13.

What is Donna non rieducabile about?

Donna non rieducabile is Stefano Massini's monologue on Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist murdered in Moscow in 2006: through her articles it tells of the war in Chechnya, the Dubrovka theater, Beslan and the end of freedom of the press in Russia.

Who is on stage with Ottavia Piccolo?

In Donna non rieducabile Ottavia Piccolo is alone on stage with the harpist Floraleda Sacchi, who performs live the music she composed. The direction is by Silvano Piccardi, the text by Stefano Massini.

For how many years has Donna non rieducabile been on stage?

Donna non rieducabile has been on stage for almost 20 years: Teatro Vittoria dates its birth to the 2007/2008 season and counts 200 performances. In 2011 it won the Premio Enriquez for direction, text and performance.

How do you get to Teatro Vittoria?

Teatro Vittoria, at Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice 10 in Testaccio, is reached by Metro Line B, Piramide stop, about a 10-minute walk away, or by tram 3 on Via Marmorata.

Is Donna non rieducabile suitable for kids?

Donna non rieducabile is suitable for high school students interested in recent history and journalism. At Teatro Vittoria the under 18 ticket costs €13 in the orchestra and €11 in the gallery, plus a €2 presale fee.

Who was Anna Politkovskaya?

Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, born in New York in 1958 to Soviet diplomats, known for her reporting on the Second Chechen War and for her criticism of Russian governments. She was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The people who ordered it have never been identified.

Final advice on Donna non rieducabile

Donna non rieducabile brings to Vittoria, 20 years after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, one of the longest-lived monologues of Italian civic theater, with an actress who has gone through more than 60 years of show business and a live harp. My advice is to choose a midweek performance, take a seat in the orchestra, arrive with a few names from Chechnya in your head and stay silent for a few seconds at the end. Then a dinner in Testaccio, to talk about it.

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