Frank Gagliano's THE TOTAL IMMERSION OF MADELEINE FAVORINI Comes to the Barebones Black Box Theater
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SandRico Productions will present "THE TOTAL IMMERSION OF MADELEINE FAVORINI" by Frank Gagliano for two nights on Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18 at 8 p.m. at Barebones Black Box Theater, 1211 Braddock Avenue, Braddock, PA. 15104.
“The Total Immersion of Madeleine Favorini” is a surreal 3-performer piece (15 roles)
in which 46-year-old Madeleine Favorini journeys from dutifulness to rebellion on a gynecological examining table that takes wing. Noted for its outrageous humor, painful discoveries, theatrical encounters and startling images, the play is directed by Melissa Martin with a cast of three that includes Adrienne Wehr as Madeleine Favorini, Jill Keating and Eric Mathews.
According to Gagliano, the late, legendary Portuguese Fado singer, Amalia Rodrigues, will also be featured - as the goddess Amalia - BUT -only on the play's sound track.
"From the time I first heard Amalia Rodrigues sing rip-your-heart-out Fado songs, written especially for her by major Portuguese poets and composers, I knew I needed to get the pain of that sound into one of my plays. I went one better; I made her a character in "The Total Immersion of Madeleine Favorini." I made her the goddess Amalia- a character not seen, but heard - and to whom the characters respond. Amalia's sound and song illuminate 46-year-old Madeleine's center of pain, as she navigates - while on her magical gynecological table - through her surreal journey to the stars," explained playwright Gagliano.
Reservations encouraged: Register at TicketLeap.com
https://mfavorini.ticketleap.com/ttiomf/

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