PIRANDELLO 150 FESTIVAL
PIRANDELLO 150 FESTIVAL
Featuring 3 one-act plays written by Luigi Pirandello (In English) Artistic Director Frank Spezzano
THE IMBECILE • THE LICENSE • SICILIAN LIMES
Celebrating CANADA 150 – PIRANDELLO150
Luigi Pirandello, playwright of great fame, entertained his audiences with wit and humour. The three one-act plays bring themes of love, desire, compassion, and a transparent clash of ideological differences between family and friends of today’s society. With the many characters that dwell in the fantasy of the playwright; such as MICUCCIO BONAVINO, a nervous country peasant infatuated with SINA MARNIS who is a renowned singer, or the IETTATORE who, in a court of law, demands a license to cast the Evil-Eye on those who wish him ill-fate, or LUCA who turns the table on the definition of ‘imbecile’, Pirandello delivers a lesson of tolerance as to how one should deal with the less desirable people in our midst
CANADA 150
PIRANDELLO150
AL Green Theatre – Miles Nadal JCC
750 Spadina Avenue (at Bloor), Toronto
Enrico Ranella Show
InfoEnrico Ranella Show
Enrico Ranella Show
Enrico Ranella is back with his new show! Be ready to spend a night full of laughter, emotions and surprises. With comedy, music and poetry, Enrico will make you live “l’amore all’italiana”!
Friday, November 29
at 8:30 p.m.
$33
(+3$ credit card fee)
L’Altra Italia members
MEADOWVALE THEATRE
6315 MONTEVIDEO ROAD – MISSISSAUGA
15-26 marzo – Spotlight.Italy
Canadian Stage 26 Berkeley Street Toronto, ON M5A 2W3 Tel: 416.367.8243 x250 Fax: 416.367.1768 Email: bbradley@canadianstage.com Tickets + Info 416.368.3110 or canadianstage.com
MISTERO BUFFO E ALTRE STORIE DI DARIO FO
l’Associazione “L”Altra Italia” insieme all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura è lieto di presentare lo spettacolo MISTERO BUFFO E ALTRE STORIE DI DARIO FO, un’accattivante introduzione della compagnia teatrale Absurda Comica al mondo irriverente, giocoso e fantasioso di Dario Fo. Stefano Di Pietro, direttore della Compagnia teatrale Absurda Comica, insieme a Cristiano Beffa, attore, si esibiranno in due spettacoli rappresentanti alcuni pezzi estratti dall’opera teatraleMistero Buffo del premio Nobel Dario Fo. Con Mistero buffo, l’arte di Fo ha raggiunto il massimo grado di novità e originalità, seguendo non la tradizione istituzionale del teatro, ma la forza espressiva e la grande carica comunicativadei giullari medievali. Con questo spettacolo Dario Fo rese celebre il “Grammelot”, una forma dilinguaggio inventato dai comici della Commedia dell’Arte per evitare la censura. Tony Nardi interverrà durante lo spettacolo allo scopo di facilitare al pubblico anglofono lacomprensione del linguaggio teatrale utilizzato e chiuderà la serata con alcuni estratti dalsuo lavoro “Letter Two” dedicato alla Commedia dell’Arte nel contesto odierno del teatro canadese. 
MISTERO BUFFO E ALTRE STORIE DI DARIO FO “L’Altra Italia” and The Istituto Italiano di Cultura are glad to present MISTERO BUFFO E ALTRE STORIE DI DARIO FO, a wonderful introduction to theirreverent, playful and imaginative world of Dario Fo by the theatrical group Absurda Comica (Stefano Di Pietro and Cristiano Beffa). Join Stefano Di Pietro, one of Dario Fo’s most prolific students and collaborators, and his theatrecompany Absurda Comicafrom Rome for two performances of selections from Dario Fo’s NobelPrize-winning Mistero Buffo. This work represents the height of Mr. Fo’s unique style of playwriting and performance, and has gained popularity for its use of “Grammelot,” a languageinvented to escape censorship as the show toured throughout Italy and abroad. Tony Nardi will kindly act as “language facilitator” for the English speaking audience and close the evening with an excerpt from his piece “Letter two” dedicated to Commedia dell’Arte in the Canadian theatrical scene.
Lo spettacolo sarà ripetuto sabato 3 maggio The show will also be presented on May 3 8.00 pm – Robert Gill Theatre214 College St.3rd floor (use St. George St.entrance)
