At Villa Romana di Orfeo in Trento, a series of meetings begins that develops and offers various points of view on the theme that constitutes the heart and centre of Schiller's "Maria Stuarda", staged from 23 November at the Teatro Sociale in Trento. Does it change anything if the power holder is a woman? Elizabeth and Mary wage a deadly struggle to prevail on the throne, with unusual weapons for those who reign. from November 14, 2023 to March 14, 2024. 

Literature, philosophy and art have drawn models over the millennia or given us real as well as rare faces of women who wield real power. Often, these women have determined the fate of a democracy such as Aspasia among the Greeks, they have created and carried out schools, students, researches such as Hypatia, also killed for its own supremacy and cultural influence.

The theater outlines the first women in power with Seneca, who creates female figures capable of determining their own destiny as well as that of the men around them. The most famous, in the theatre, is Lady Macbeth, a formidable protagonist in Shakespeareand in Verdi, but not unique in the vast Elizabethan panorama. Nowadays, how normal, how natural, is it for a woman to reign, govern, lead companies, states, entities? And what does the world and the labour market look like in all this? A series of experts, artists, journalists, in dialogue with professors from the University of Trento, will try to offer some answers.