Italian theatre company TeatroE brings PUTTANA to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a bold and immersive production that interrogates the commodification of women’s bodies and the violence that underpins it.
Using innovative binaural audio technology, PUTTANA places audiences directly inside the narrative via headphones, creating a three-dimensional soundscape that surrounds and unsettles. The result is an intense and intimate theatrical experience, where the audience becomes both observer and participant.
At the centre of the story is Laura, a woman forced into sex work to survive. Through a fragmented and multi-perspective narrative, performer Beatrice Elena Festi embodies five distinct characters, each representing conflicting desires and moral viewpoints. As voices overlap and reshape the story, the show challenges audiences to question notions of judgement and responsibility.
Blending experimental sound design with powerful physical performance, PUTTANA explores the blurred boundaries between desire, power and exploitation. The production refuses easy answers, instead asking audiences to sit with moral ambiguity and consider their own complicity in systems of inequality.
Directed by Mirko Corradini with dramaturgy by Maura Pettorruso, the show has been praised for its provocative and uncompromising approach, offering a striking and thought-provoking addition to this year’s Fringe.
PUTTANA runs at Summerhall from 06 – 31 August at 21:25. Tickets are on sale here
