LE COCCINELLE. SCENEGGIATA TRANSESSUALE

The Ladybirds aren’t drag queens nor are they glitzy femmes fatales; they don’t mime to a playback by Raffaella Carrà or other pop icons. Gennaro, Tonino, Genny and Giacinto are four Neapolitan ‘femminielli’, four transsexuals from the alleyways of Naples. The Ladybirds sing and play out their melodramas about prostitution, prejudice and hypocrisy, but these are also stories of friendship with the women of the working class neighbourhoods and the love for life of the Neapolitan people. Sacred and profane, old and new, normal and different all to the rhythm of the ‘musica neomelodica’.