The rehearsals for this project are a continuous work in progress with just as much room for improvement. As per most classical pieces, The Mandrake Roots provides a text that doesn’t need anything else but the actor’s dedication to understand the purpose of the play. The message, the idea, the spine if you will. During...
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Francesco Meola on La Mandragola
Rehearsing “The Mandrake Root” is a unique chance to dig into the essence of the theatre. In fact La Mandragola is a comedy that offers not only an in-depth look into the world of Machiavelli and of the italian culture, but also a universal picture of the contradictions of the human nature. The desire of...
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Ilaria on La Mandragola: La Mandragola… what a ride!!
La Mandragola… what a ride!! I am really glad I got the opportunity to work on this play with such a wonderful and committed group of artists. First of all after four years in the United States it is so enjoyable to spend time exploring an Italian author with an all-italian theater company! Reading the...
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Irene on La Mandragola
There are many different kind of Comedy: vaudeville, Commedia dell’Arte, dark comedy, absurd comedy, cabaret, stand-up, improv, sit-com… and many others. But they all have in common for me is the ability to turn daily life into the scene of incredible adventures and to turn daily tragedies and dark aspects of life into the funniest,...
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Il Teatro Puo’… – February 1st, 2012
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.
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Babalu Aye: danzando per guarire le ferite anche interne
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...
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Thinking of Buzzati
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...
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Benvenuti nel mio blog
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...