Angelica Bifano

With “Mamma son tanto felice perché” (Mom, I’m So Happy Because), I enter the home of a family in a small town in Southern Italy, in the Cilento region.

The show is a monologue that brings together three generations of women: an eighty-year-old mother, a fifty-year-old daughter, and an eight-year-old girl.

Past, present, and future take shape, meet, and coexist.

Through a game that is both tender and fierce, conflicts, complicities, and invisible legacies emerge.

On stage, I play nine characters—the entire family—and, with just a few objects, I continually transform the space.

I was interested in allowing the story to enter the intimacy of the home, gradually bringing to light what remains hidden, restrained, and unresolved within the family unit.