Roberta Bruzzone in 'In the Shadow of Narcissus

HISTORIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE KILLING IN THE AGE OF RAGE

In recent years, as we often read in the main national media, there have been numerous cases of very young people involved in brutal murders, committed without any apparent motive, or at least with non-traditional motives, such as 'revenge or greed”. We speak of young people murdered by their peers, of confessed perpetrators of heinous crimes or of family massacres.
Vicious episodes of crime, which testify – according to Bruzzone – to the profound sense of inadequacy that these young people find themselves experiencing.  Feelings long brooding in the darkness of their minds, while anger and anguish nourished their “sé grandiose”.
Roberta Bruzzone will take us to explore the dark side of the boys who kill, in the so-called 'age of rage', reconstructing with surgical precision the psychological and educational path that led to such disturbing scenarios, in order to draw useful warnings to decipher the psyche of these young people and support parents in their complex task as educators. To prevent something similar from happening again.

Roberta Bruzzone
Graduated in Turin in “Clinical Psychology”, she perfected her studies by specialising in “Forensic Psychology” at the University of Genoa. Her training in the field of criminology continued abroad and in the United States. Roberta Bruzzone, a criminologist by profession, is the author of books dealing with various aspects of criminology, and is also a much-loved television personality. She made her theatrical debut with “Favole da incubo”, a play based on the book of the same name, and was a huge success with the public.
The 2025 Delitti allo specchio theatre tour, which brought her back to the main Italian stages, met with such favourable results that she is now one of the most popular characters on the Italian theatre scene.