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Dear KIT Friends,
I am very happy to announce that In Scena!
Italian Theater Festival NY
is back from June 9 to the 24. Last year we presented four shows and four readings and had full houses for the entire period of the Festival.
This year the Festival is longer and even bigger. Over the course 15 days, you'll be able to see six shows, all coming from Italy, and four readings, including the winner of the first edition of the Mario Fratti Awar
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, which we established this year. The Mario Fratti Ward reading will take place June 23 at the Theater for the New City, while the Award Ceremony will be at the Italian Cultural Institute in NY on the Closing Night on June 24 (more details to come, let us surprise you).
We may have exaggerated, we wanted to make you happy and according to how much you all enjoyed the 2013 edition, we are sure you'll be even happier.
This newsletter contains (already) a lot of information. Read it through or just save it and read it slowly, day by day. We'll be back with more news and specific information on each show. Also check out our websites: www.inscenany.com or www.kitheater.com. We are updating them by the hour, in case you want to know more about the shows, the artists and everything that is happening during the Festival.
And please like our In Scena Facebook page or look for In Scena on Instagram and on Twitter. Enjoy the calendar, the shows and the readings, the artists and the events, we can't wait to see you all around the five boroughs.
CIAO,
Laura&KIT
The 2014 Edition of In Scena! is presented by KIT-Kairos Italy Theater in collaboration with The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Embassy of Italy in Washington DC, The Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', Bernie Wohl Community Center at Goddard Riverside, Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies, Dicapo Opera, the Belmont Business District Development, the National Italian American Foundation, the Arthur Avenue Market Association, The Secret Theater, The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, Manducatis Rustica and KIT Italia.
Media Sponsors include La Voce di New York and TeatroTeatro.it.
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IN SCENA! OPENING NIGHT JUNE 9, 2014
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Kairos Italy Theater in association with the National Italian American Foundation, Belmont Business Improvement District, and the Arthur Avenue Market
Invite you to the
Opening Night
June 9, 2014 - 7PM
Arthur Avenue Market
2321 Hughes Ave, Bronx, NY
An evening dedicated to
Eduardo de Filippo
on the 30th Anniversary of his death.
Special guest
leading actress in Paolo Sorrentino's film
The Great Beauty
(Best Foreign Language Film, 2014 Academy Awards)
Buffet dinner by featured Food Network Chef
David Greco
Raffle of authentic Italian products as well as theatre tickets.
Opening Night tickets are $75, all included.
Buy the tickets before May 20 for a chance to win two tickets for the musical comedy Rugantino at City Center, Jun 12-14, 2014.
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IN SCENA! SHOWS - In Italian and English or with English Supertitles
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Hanno tutti ragione (Everybody's Right)
 with IAIA FORTE, leading actress in The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino (Academy Award, 2014, Best Foreign Language Film). The play is based on Sorrentino's 2010 novel, "Hanno tutti ragione," which tells the story of Tony Pagoda, a singer from the far suburbs of Naples. During his long career, he performed on stage across the world's most important venues, including Radio City Music Hall, where he met Frank Sinatra. A great ladies' man, cocaine addict and alcoholic, he emigrates to Brazil to start a new life, until he receives an offer he can't refuse. JUNE 10, 2014 - 8PM DICAPO OPERA, 184 E 76th Street, NY
L'Italia s'� desta (Italy has Arisen)
 Written and directed by Rosario Mastrota with Dalila Desir�e Cozzolino. Winner of the Teatropia 2012 award (Mafia & Politics themes), the Restart Award at the Politically Incorrect Festival 2013, and Antimafie Dirittinscena Award 2013. Finalist for the prestigious Hystrio Stage Writing award 2012. The story of Carletta, a Shakespearean village fool, who witnesses the kidnapping by the Calabrese mafia - 'ndrangheta - of the Italian national soccer team. The army, politicians and journalists, too busy creating a media storm around the event, and blinded by the magnitude of the news, don't notice her. She's the only person who knows where the team is hidden - but nobody believes her.
JUNE 11, 8PM, CASA ITALIANA ZERILLI-MARIMO' at NYU,
24 W 12 street, NY
Buy Tickets
Please note: This event is FREE for Members of Casa Italiana.
Member-only RSVP: 212-502-7944 - RSVP deadline: 24 hours prior to event start.
To become a member of Casa Italiana, please contribute a minimum of $50.
JUNE 14, Noon,
BELMONT LIBRARY & ENRICO FERMI CULTURAL CENTER,
610 E 186th Street at Hughes Ave, Bronx - Free Admission
JUNE 20, 7:30 PM, BERNIE WOHL CENTER at Goddard Riverside,
647 Columbus Ave, NY - Buy Tickets
Neighbors
(an anti-romantic comedy)
Written and performed by Francesco Meola and Irene Turri, directed by Ilaria Ambrogi.
Produced by OyesOverseas.
Neighbors is a journey into the absurd situations experienced by two Italian immigrants in New York City. They have opposite personalities, but they are both products of a generation with no certainties. Through this anti-romantic comedy, you follow their brilliant and often funny exchanges on sex, relationships and work.
JUNE 15, 8 PM, THE SECRET THEATER, 4402 23rd Str, Long Island City, Queens - Buy Tickets
JUNE 23, 9 PM, THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, 155 1st Avenue, NY
Buy Tickets
RaeP
 Written by Mauro Santopietro,directed by and with Mauro Santopietro and Tiziano Panici.
Finalist for the 2011 Premio Scenario.
"RaeP" is an exploration of language: bodies and words, lights and sets, that become the language of the stage. The theme of the show is safety in the workplace, explored through the story of a blue-collar worker, a casualty of occupational fatality, and through that of a student, caught in the harness of a society that can never guarantee he'll be employed.
JUNE 16, 8 PM, THEATERLAB, 357 W 36th St, NY - Buy Tickets
JUNE 18, 8 PM, TRISKELION ARTS, 118 N 11th St, Brooklyn
Buy Tickets
Mutu (Silence!)
Written by Aldo Rap�, directed by Lauro Versari and performed by Aldo Rap� and Marco Carlino.
Winner of the Avignon Off Festival 2012 award for Best Foreign Show.
Saro and Salvuccio are brothers, one is a priest, one is a mafioso. They have been silent (mutu) for years because of necessity until one day one can no longer pretend not to know what he knows and needs to rebel.
JUNE 17, 8 PM, CASA ITALIANA ZERILLI-MARIMO' at NYU,
24 W 12th street, NY - Buy Tickets
Please note: This event is FREE for Members of Casa Italiana.
Member-only RSVP: 212-502-7944 - RSVP deadline: 24 hours prior to event start.
To become a member of Casa Italiana, please contribute a minimum of $50.
JUNE 22, 7:30 PM, BERNIE WOHL CENTER at Goddard Riverside,
647 Columbus Ave, NY - Buy Tickets
I corteggiatori:
amore a colpi di poesia
(The Suitors: Love by Poetry)
Written and performed by Vito De Girolamo and Carlo Loiudice.
Two men come face to face in a poetry duel. Like two Commedia Dell'Arte actors, except without the masks, the two protagonists satirize the clich� of the "Italian Macho" through the words of some of the world's most beautiful love poetry.
JUNE 19, 7 PM, ITALIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION AT CASA BELVEDERE,
77 Howard Ave, Staten Island - Buy Tickets
JUNE 21, 7:30 PM, BERNIE WOHL CENTER at Goddard Riverside,
647 Columbus Ave, NY - Buy Tickets
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IN SCENA! READINGS - In English
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Storia d'amore e di calcio
(A Story of Love and Soccer)
Written by Michele Santeramo
Translated by Peter Speedwell
In a village in the south of Italy, today's immigrants compete in the first-ever clandestine soccer world championship to determine who will have control over the city center for the following year. Italy, Libya, Morocco, Poland, Ukraine and Senegal are the impromptu national teams fighting to become the champions of their suburban world. In the middle of it all is the love story between an Italian midfield player and an Indian girl...
JUNE 11 - 6PM
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' at NYU, 24 W 12 street, NY
Buy Tickets - Free with a ticket for the same day show
Please note: This event is FREE for Members of Casa Italiana.
Member-only RSVP: 212-502-7944 - RSVP deadline: 24 hours prior to event start.
To become a member of Casa Italiana, please contribute a minimum of $50.
Fallaci: a woman against
Written by Emilia Costantini
Translated by Dave Johnson
and Laura Caparrotti
in the role of Oriana Fallaci
Author Emilia Costantini imagines a post-mortem interview with the famous and controversial journalist Oriana Fallaci. The material is based on the writings by Oriana Fallaci.
JUNE 16, 6 PM, TheatreLab, 357 W 36th St, NY
Buy Tickets - Free with a ticket for the same day show
Santos
Written by Mario Gelardi and Giuseppe Miale di Mauro,
based on the short story Super Santos
by Roberto Saviano,
translated and adapted by Dave Johnson
and Laura Caparrotti
Based on true events, The story revolves around four youths who are recruited by the Camorra as look-outs: their job is to play soccer in a village square and let the Camorra know when the police, or anyone else suspicious, arrives. Saviano's story focuses on the 'careers' of the youths, among them a rising Camorra Boss, each of whom has to choose between soccer and crime.
JUNE 17 - 6PM
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' at NYU, 24 W 12 street, NY
Buy Tickets - Free with a ticket for the same day show
Please note: This event is FREE for Members of Casa Italiana.
Member-only RSVP: 212-502-7944 - RSVP deadline: 24 hours prior to event start.
To become a member of Casa Italiana, please contribute a minimum of $50.
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Rugantino in NY!
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After 50 years, the famous Italian musical comedy, Rugantino, is back in NY June 12-14, 2014.
Join us in welcoming a great piece of Italian theater history.
To celebrate this production,
In Scena! has not scheduled conflicting events for those three days.
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