Everyone wears a mask. Not a literal one, maybe, but a mask nonetheless: everyone plays a role in the comedy of life. Professor Paolino, the Man, hides an illicit love affair under his respectable demeanor. Mrs Perella, his lover, wears the mask of Virtue but is not really virtuous at all; while her husband, Captain
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ItSoc Theatre Project Auditions Day 1-2
Our theatre project is starting again! For the third consecutive year the Italian Society, in collaboration with Roman actor and director Ludovico Nolfi, will be staging a play at the end of Lent term, and we are looking for a cast and crew: actors, musicians, sound and lighting technicians, costume and make up artists, on
2015 – Questi Fantasmi
2015 – Questi Fantasmi By Eduardo de Filippo March 12th – 7pm in the Palmerston Room at St John’s College Italian with English subtitles ‘Questi Fantasmi’ (‘These Ghosts’) is a work which follows perfectly along the lines of De Filippo’s typical approach, combining his great irony with an ability to touch upon themes which make
2014 – Il Beretto a Sonagli
2014 – Il Beretto a Sonagli By Luigi Pirandello March 13-14th – 7pm in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty Italian with English subtitles In October of 2013 Ludovico Nolfi, actor and director from Rome, arrives in Cambridge with an idea in mind: to put on a show in Italian starring amateur native