A Flower of the Lips

In this new play by Australian playwright Valentino Musico the author tries to come to terms with the murder of his great - grandfather Bruno Aloi born in the Calabrian village of Pietracupa in 1883 and now long dead. Based on a 500 page document obtained from the Italian State Archives' Reggio di Calabria office Valentino Musico started to find the truth about his great - grandfather's murder. In 2014 I finally read the handwritten Italian archive documents. I then began to believe from all this reading and gleaning and weighing that Bruno was a good man his story was important and his story merited more than being mingled and flung forsaken with his bones into the ossuary. The result of Valentino Musico's findings is his compelling new play A Flower of the Lips.