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Italian Playwrights Project at Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Dates: 12/18/2019

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Martin E. Segal Theatre Center


365 Fifth Av.
New York City, NY 10016

Tickets: free - open to the public


Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications and Umanism will be hosting the closing event of the second edition of the Italian Playwrights Project (2017/2019). Join us for a rare full-length reading of Event Horizon with playwright Elisa Casseri. The play, directed by Marco Calvani, in a translation by Adriana Rossetto, received in 2016 the prestigious Premio Riccione Italian Theater Award. Followed by a conversation with playwright Elisa Casseri, and Graziano Graziani (Theater Critic, Journalist and member of the jury at the Premio Riccione per il Teatro) and Valeria Orani; moderated by Frank Hentschker.The evening will also celebrate Martin E. Segal Theatre Publications new anthology NEW PLAYS FROM ITALY Vol.3., featuring plays: from the second edition of the Italian and American Playwrights Project (2017/2019): Event Horizon by Elisa Casseri, My Hero by Giuliana Musso (translated by Patricia Gaborik), A Notebook for Winter by Armando Pirozzi (translated by Adriana Rossetto), The Great Walk by Fabrizio Sinisi (translated by Thomas Haskell Simpson). Partner of this second edition are: Istituto Italiano Di Cultura of New York, Riccione Teatro, and as media partner Radio3 RaiOur shout-out to Bindi fantasia nel dessert for the sweet donation to our audience.Since 2015 participants of Italian Playwrights Project included : Lucia Calamaro, Daria Deflorian & Antonio Tagliarini, Stefano Massini, Marco Martinelli & Ermanna Montanari, Giuliana Musso, Fausto Paravidino, Armando Pirozzi and Michele Santeramo, Fabrizio SinisiTo Italian and American Playwrights Project and to its publishing house Martin E. Segal Theater Center Publication was conferred, on the unanimous opinion of the Evaluation Commission, one of the Award for translations dedicated to the diffusion of the Italian language abroad 2019, issued by the Directorate-General for Libraries and Cultural Institutes of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

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Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

365 Fifth Av.
New York City, NY 10016

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Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
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