On the occasion of the tenth anniversary (6 April 2009-2019) of the violent earthquake that devastated and damaged the city of L’Aquila, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Francesco D’Arelli, is pleased to introduce Claudio Palmisano, an Aquila of adoption , pianist, composer and playwright, who will talk about some of the dramatic moments of that human experience, while presenting the theatrical work conceived with Franco Narducci, director, poet, writer and historical responsible of the Theatrical Company “La Piccola Brigata”. A video recorded by Franco Narducci testify, moreover, the current state of culture and of theater in the city of L’Aquila.
Thursday April 4 2019, 6pm
Italian Cultural Institute
1200, Av. du Dr. Penfield
Montréal, QC H3A 1A9
Conference in Italian
In the city of “99 spouts”, a crossroads of cultures and popular traditions, theatrical companies have always proliferated, dedicated to staging dialectal works and in Italian according to an ancient tradition. Among these, the Theatrical Company “La Piccola Brigata” is undoubtedly the most renowned, established in L’Aquila in March 1950 and protagonist of over a hundred theatrical texts by Italian authors performed in Italy and abroad. For the XIX Week of the Italian Language (21-27 October 2019), dedicated to the theme “Italian on the stage“, the Italian Cultural Institute will host the Theater Company “La Piccola Brigata”, which will present a written theater by Franco Narducci and with the participation of Claudio Palmisano. The event will be an opportunity to raise funds to support and promote the cultural activities of the theater company “La Piccola Brigade”, which for a decade has deprived of their theater, destroyed by the 2009 earthquake.
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