88 Frequenze - Antonella Carone

The new theatrical season 2024-2025 of the Curci Theater in Barletta continues.

Next appointment: 88 Frequencies - Antonella Carone

Hedy Lamarr, a diva of the golden age of Hollywood, often defined as "the most beautiful woman in the world", in June 1941 presented to the American patent office a complicated system of secret communication to prevent the American navy torpedoes from being intercepted by the Nazis. A system that alternated 88 frequencies, like the number of keys on a piano. Inconceivable, for the members of the Inventor's Council, that the actress in topless of the controversial film "Ecstasy" of 1933 could also be a genius of military engineering! Only from the 1980s, with the lifting of military secrecy on the patent, do technologies based on her invention begin to spread, including modern Wi-Fi. A $31 billion invention that was never recognized to her, except when it was too late... The actress intertwines with irony the incredible life of Lamarr with her own personal story, moving in a space that resembles a photographic set, with a smartphone in direct grip that imprisons, reflects, decomposes, manipulates the image. A story told in one breath that makes us reflect on the relationship between identity and image and on how complex it is to express the multiplicity of each of us in a world where it seems we can only believe in one character at a time.