Glass on stage. The woman of fire Marietta Barovier

Starting from an attentive historical recognition of glass manufacture, the paper traces the salient stages of female entrepreneurship in fifteenth Century Murano, focusing on the pioneering figure of Marietta Barovier. The theatrical production, dedicated to her, updates her cultural fundament, knowledges, actions, and life, through a performance in constant dialogue between past and present, in which the stage setting is made up of morphing videos that continuously shape the glass matter. This experience is part of candidacy dossier for the venetian pearls as UNESCO intangible heritage, to help raise awareness and spread the transmission of know-how, the dissemination of which here is confronted with the theatre democratic space.