Kairos Italy Theater

JANINE WHITE

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Janine White was born in Boston. She received her B.A. from Hunter College in Italian Language and Civilization, minoring in the Classics. She has been an assistant organizer for an Italian language and cultural group through Meetup.com since 2007. She discovered Kairos Italy Italian Theater while searching for events for the group. She provided production assistance in the performance of Tosca e le altre due by Franca Valeri at the cell.

She was so good that KIT started to collaborate with her on a project base until she was asked to join KIT as Associate Producer.

Janine has also traveled extensively throughout Italy and Sicily studying the language and culture of her ancestors.

Women with NO Escape – Homage to Dino Buzzati

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:22:15 +0000

Celebrating Dino Buzzati
on the 40^th Anniversary of his departure

Theater – Cinema – Conferences

A month-long event dedicated to one of the leading figures on the 1900 Italian Literature.

Four one acts by famous Italian writer DINO BUZZATI
Presented in English followed by its original Italian Version.

Translated by Natasha Lardera
With Ilaria Amadasi (Italian), Lydia Biondi (Italian), Laura Caparrotti (Italian), Angelina Fiordellisi (English), Lucia Grillo (English) and Marta Mondelli (English).
Directed by Laura Caparrotti and others.(Definitive cast will be announced soon)

Dino Buzzati, the “Italian Kafka”, wrote these monologues in the late ‘50s but there is nothing of the “dolce vita” in these women trapped into their lives like passionate and proud victims of a fate they can’t control. Solitude, magic, absurd, wait and death are the dominant themes of these ironic and at the same time dramatic monologues presented in the English translation, followed by their original, evocative Italian.

The project is supported to date by Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU, The Consulate General of Italy, and the Italian Cultural Institute in NY.

THE MONOLOGUES

Spogliarello (Striptease): Velia’s unfortunate relationship with a married man doesn’t bring the financial stability she needs. After his death, she tries to become independent by opening a café, that soon after goes out of business. From there, the downfall is fast and cruel and even death appears to her an empty place where none is listening… even there. This monologue told by the bold and sarcastic prostitute Velia in a post-war Milan is a look into the life of a woman that even in front of death doesn’t loose her biting wit.

L’orologio (The Clock): Widow Irma’s life is destined to live in a constant and absurd shift between past and present. In an enormous clock in her house, among the mechanism, the soul of her revengeful late husband hides only to endlessly torture her: when the pointers go backwards, she is forced to live again and again one precise moment of her life.This dramatic monologue tells the terror and torment of a woman without escape. It is a symbolic tale of the impossibility of taking control of the consequences of our acts.

Sola in casa (Alone at home): Iris, widow and fortune-teller is afraid to be at home alone: in her neighborhood three women were killed by a stranger. She is visited by a distinctive man, her neighbor, who flirts with her while having his fortune told. The cards will reveal something deeply disturbing… and Iris will have to face the consequences. This dynamic monologue shows the subtle nuances between wait, fear and the longing of love in a solitary life.

La Telefonista (The Operator) A love ending through the phone’s cable.

Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 – January 28, 1972) was born at San Pellegrino near Belluno, in the Veneto region, on his family’s ancestral villa. Buzzati’s mother, a veterinarian by profession, was Venetian and his father, a professor of international law, was from an ancient Bellunese family. Buzzati was the second of his parents’ four children. In 1924, he enrolled in the law faculty of the University of Milan, where his father once taught. As he was completing his studies in law, he was hired, at the age of 22, by the Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera, where he would remain until his death. He began in the copyeditor department, and later worked as a reporter, special correspondent, essayist, editor and art critic. It is often said that his journalistic background informs his writing, lending even the most fantastic tales an aura of realism. During World War II, Buzzati served in Africa, as a journalist attached to the Regia Marina. After the end of the war, Il deserto dei Tartari (The Tartar Steppe) was published Italy-wide and quickly brought critical recognition and fame to the author. He married Almeria Antoniazzi in 1964, which also marked the release of his last novel, Un amore. In 1972, Buzzati died of cancer after a protracted illness.

Works by Buzzati
Buzzati began writing fiction in 1933. His works of fiction include five novels, theatre and radio plays, librettos, numerous books of short stories and poetry. He wrote the children’s book, originally called La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia, and then translated to The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily by Frances Lobb. Lemony Snicket wrote the introduction and reader’s companion. The Tartar Steppe, his most famous novel, tells the story of a military outpost that awaits a Tartar invasion. In its sentiment and its conclusions, it has been compared to existentialist works, notably Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus. His writing is sometimes cited as magical realism, social alienation, and the fate of the environment and of fantasy in the face of unbridled technological progress are recurring themes. He has also written a variety of short stories featuring fantastic animals such as the bogeyman and, his own invention, the colomber (il colombre).

The Woman in the Wardrobe (La donna nell’armadio)

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From the screenwriter of La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2 comes an absurd, ironic, one act play written for “simple, deplorable entertainment.” Yet, with this story of a poet and his hidden secret, Ennio Flaiano gives us so much more.

Defying his audience’s expectations once again, Flaiano plays with the rules of the detective mystery, pointing out the iniquities of modern bureaucracies that rule human existence. Echoes of Ionesco, Allen and the Marx Brothers make this one-act play an enjoyable and unforgettable experience.

May 14th, 2012 – 7pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
(24 W 12 street)

Origin Theatre Company
In association with
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and Kairos Italy Theater
celebrates
Ennio Flaiano
on the 40th Anniversary of his death with the reading of

The Woman in the Wardrobe
(La Donna nell’Armadio)
A One Act Play

Part of Origin’s eighth annual ‘Mondays of May’ play reading series
in association with NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House

Free Admission
Wine Reception to follow

With:
Rocco Sisto
Tom O’Keefe
Jesse Presler
Carlo Giuliano
Rosemary Fine

Directed by Laura Caparrotti
Translated by Marisa Trubiano

The wine is generously provided by San Matteo Pizzeria.

BRUCE RABINOWITZ

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Bruce Rabinowitz has served as an attorney, business consultant, sales agent, and producer to a number of international and domestic clients in the television and film industries for 20 years.

Among his current responsibilities are advising RAI Corporation, the service arm of the Italian state broadcaster, Radio Televisione Italiana, on business and legal affairs, as well as representing RAI’s vast catalogue of theatrical films, television programs, formats, sports, musical programming and footage archive to international broadcasters and providers for RAI’s sales division based in Rome.

Additionally, he provides business and/or legal consultation to United Nations Television; IBC, a Los Angeles based international program sales and channel development company, as its Director of Sales; Mediakite, an international television production and development company; Eurocinema, the first North American channel dedicated to international box office titles; and Terra Entertainment; among various other sales, production and distribution organizations.

Mr. Rabinowitz formerly held the post of Vice President, International, at Viacom’s Showtime Networks, where he was responsible for identifying, researching, negotiating, marketing, and launching niche channels for the international marketplace. Prior to that, he served as RAI Corporation’s Director of New Business, as well as Director of Commercial Sales for DLT Entertainment.

For the past 9 years, he has served as a Professor in the Television & Radio Department of Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses centered on the global entertainment business and media law.

Il Teatro Puo’… – February 1st, 2012

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:36:21 +0000

This is an interesting question: Cosa PUO’ il teatro?

Un video ideato e realizzato dall’Associazione TK, progettato e prodotto da Fondazione di Venezia e Euterpe Venezia, cerca di dare alcune risposte… o suggerimenti di risposta!

E secondo voi, il teatro puo’….?

IL TEATRO PUO’… from giovaniateatro on Vimeo.

Babalu Aye: danzando per guarire le ferite anche interne

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:55:35 +0000

Alla lezione di danza afro-caraibica, abbiamo imparato i passi di una danza guatritrice, non tanto delle ferite esterne, quanto di quelle interne, una danza che toglie la negativita’, che -come diremmo noi – taglia i rami secchi e comincia un nuovo cammino. Si inizia stando piegati come se si tagliassero grossi fasci d’erba, si avanza tagliando e si taglia sempre piu’ forte, sempre piu’ decisi… poi ci si alza, si e’ dritti, forse addirittura piu’ alti del solito e si avanza tastando la terra con i piedi, infine con l’erba raccolta ci si spazzola per togliere gli ultimi rimasugli di vita negativa… e comincia un nuovo giorno. E danzando, danzando, mi e’ venuto da piangere, senza pensarci, solo perche’ quel ballo stava davvero smuovendo qualcosa di dimenticato e immobile dentro… per questo la danza era nata, per questo il teatro era nato, per dare sollievo alle pene umane…

Thinking of Buzzati

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:54:57 +0000

As KIT Friends know, in the Fall of 2012 KIT is presenting 4 monologues by Dino Buzzati, a most respected writer (and painter and reporter and intellectual) of Italy. The monologues are all about women: Velia, Irma, Luisa and Iris. His monologues are always painted in dark, and they tasted something of a crime-horror story and sometime of an ironic-sad-pathetic story.

Well, today I was in a bar, getting a coffee and I saw something that remind me of the monologue where Iris, a middle age woman Tarots-reader, meets a man… today, while talking with the person I was having coffee with, a man and a woman sat at the table next to us. They were cheesy dressed, his hair very oily, her chicks very red, both images very surreal… and in that very busy bar, the man put the Tarots on the table and started to ’see’ the woman life and future… sometime his cellular was ringing, with a music that was even more surreal, an old song from the 70s, and he was -while talking- looking who’s calling and then deciding not to answer.

Their gestures, their look, the conversation (he was saying that someone needed her, and she was talking about a someone, male, who needed her attention) and the fact that it was clear that they didn’t know each other (they were very formal)… everything was like the opening of a movie… or a novel… or, of course, a play… and it made me thinking of Iris, the Tarots-reader, who maybe one day met such man… and Buzzati wrote what happened next!

As one of my teachers, Dario Fo, used to say ‘Nothing is more theatrical than reality’.

Benvenuti nel mio blog

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:51:58 +0000

Visto che ognuno pare debba avere un blog, ho deciso anche io di dare vita al diario online dei miei pensieri, giudizi, battiti e silenzi. In realta’, era parecchio che pensavo a questo blog e mi chiedevo se fosse davvero necessario, a parte le ragioni di mercato, condividere con coloro che seguono la KIT emozioni e giudizi.

Poi, qualche giorno fa, ho ricevuto l’email che allego a seguire e mi sono detta che forse chiaccherare all’aperto poteva anche essere utile e dunque da oggi seguiranno, di tanto in tanto, blog in italiano, in inglese e perche’ no bilingue… blog con ospiti e blog di ospiti… e chissa’ che qualche altra persona, come Simona che scrive qua sotto, non si senta ispirata e segua anche lei la sua passione… Buona Lettura…

DA SIMONA R.:
Ciao Laura,
mi sono appena iscritta al vostro gruppo e curiosando ho letto di come è nata la tua compagnia. Ti scrivo perché le tue parole sulla scelta del nome e sul mito di Kairos, che non conoscevo, mi hanno colpita! Suonano come l’inattesa spinta a seguire il mio istinto e ripartire per NY, lasciando la mia comoda vita in Italia.
Anche se inconsapevolmente, mi sei stata di aiuto! Grazie!

Sister, Cousin, Aunt PRESS

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:52:32 +0000

MarteMagazine – November 21, 2011
Sguardi S-Velati IV – Sister, Cousin, Aunt chiude la rassegna

TeatroTeatro.it – November 2011
Sister, Cousin, Aunt (Sorella, Cugina, Zia)

Donna10 -November 21, 2011
Sister, Cousin, Aunt: a Roma lo spettacolo di Dave Johnson

Saltinaria.it – November 20, 2011
Sister, Cousin, Aunt al Teatro Due

Corriere della Sera – November 2011
Donne che combattono in silenzio dietro una finestra sul nulla

Donors Level

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Impresario $ 25,000+

co-Production Sponsor credit, 10 tickets to two full productions, plus PRIMI ATTORI benefits.

Primi attori $ 10,000-24,000

Production Sponsor credit, 8 tickets to two full productions, plus caratteristi benefits.

Caratteristi $ 5,000-9,000

a VIP dinner with the company, 4 tickets to one full production plus attor giovani benefits.

Attor Giovani $ 500-4,000

VIP Reserved Seating at opening night and special events, and priority in seats reservation in all General Admission events, plus comparse benefits.

COMPARSE up to $500

Acknowledgement in all programs. special gadgets from Kairos Italy Theater Inc.