This
was Tricolore Theatre Company's
inaugural production: a rehearsed reading of new English adaptations
of 3 one-act plays by Italian playwright Luigi
Pirandello at the Italian Cultural
Institute in February 2008. The event was sold out,
with a long waiting list for tickets.
"I was first introduced to Luigi
Pirandello's work while at university. However,
it was sometime after graduating from drama school that I
began to feel discouraged by how infrequently theatre companies
present international works here in the UK.
"In 2007, I searched the shelves of theatre bookshops and
well known bookstores in London, only rarely coming across Italian
plays translated into English.
"Whilst there is no doubt that Luigi
Pirandello, Carlo Goldoni, Eduardo
de Filippo and Dario Fo are
renowned in the UK, their works are rarely presented here,
either in English or the original Italian. I have formed TricoloreTheatre
Company with the aim of correcting this oversight."
Click
on the image on the left for a facsimile page from the progamme,
featuring the cast lists and biographies.
TricoloreTheatre
Company in rehearsal at the Italian
Cultural Institute, London.
