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'Rome 1926. The Honourable Violet Gibson tries to assassinate Benito Mussolini. She misses. Mussolini puts a bandage on his nose and carries on with his plans for dictatorship.
'Another 2 inches to the right and Violet would have changed the entire sweep of world history.
'Saint, subversive, prophet or madwoman? I Shot Mussolini is the story of an eccentric Irish woman who wanted to kill Mussolini and the Italian policeman who wanted to find out why.'
Source: La Mama Theatre.
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Production note: Based in part on Richard Collins' manuscript The Irish Baron's Daughter and Mussolini's Nose.
Affiliation Notes
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This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.
Production Details
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Presented at La Mama Courthouse, 27 November - 8 December 2019.
Director: Alice Bishop.
Additional Research and Italian Translation: Heather Lythe.
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