STRUCTURE OVERVIEW
The Opening night: Each year the Festival is dedicated to an anniversary that has changed the life of theater or of society. The Opening Night of the Festival is dedicated to such anniversary and includes some of the artists participating in the Festival and local artists.
Full-production shows: Up to twelve professional theater shows from Italy. Each show should have had at least ten performances around Italy. Each show will have two performances during the Festival: one in Manhattan and one in one of the other four boroughs. Each show is either bilingual or with supertitles.
Readings: readings of Italian plays, already presented in Italy, translated into English. Presented in partnership with playwrights, Festivals and Playwrights projects.
The Mario Fratti Award for Excellence in Italian Play-writing: Since 2014, every year the jury of the Mario Fratti Award – comprised of 7 people (2 artists from the previous edition and theater makers) – chooses the winner’s play among the submissions. All plays need to never been produced. The winner will receive a translation of their work into English as part of the MFA Collection and a reading of such translation. Since 2018, all MFA winners have been published by In Scena! under the MFA theater collection.
HISTORY by titles
First Edition June 2013
Shows:
NUIORC NUIORC by and with Francesco Foti
SOLO ANNA written by Franco D’Alessandro with Lidia Vitale
JENNU BRIGANNU written by Vincenza Costantino, directed by Ernesto Orrico, with Dante De Rose, Manolo Muoio, Ernesto Orrico
Readings:
Venditori di Anime (Dealers of Souls) by Alberto Bassetti with Anthony Laciura, Francesco Andolfi
LE MATTINE DIECI ALLE DUE (Mornings ten to two) by Luca De Bei with Carlotta Brentan, Drew Bruch
LA MARATONA DI NEW YORK (Marathon) by Edoardo Erba, adapted by Isreal Horowitz con Vincent Piazza and Ted Lewis
Second edition June 2014 – Festival dedicated to Eduardo De Filippo
Shows:
Mutu (winner Avignon Off) Prima Quinta company
I CORTEGGIATORI (THE SUITORS) by and with Carlo Loiudice and Vito de Girolamo
L’italia s’e’ desta (Italy has arisen) by Rosario Mastrota with Dalila Cozzolino,
REAP by and with Mauro Santopietro and Tiziano Panici – Teatro Argot Production
Hanno tutti ragione (Everybody’s right) by Oscar Winning director Paolo Sorrentino with Oscar Winning actress Iaia Forte
Readings:
Santos by Roberto Saviano and Mario Gelardi
Oriana Fallaci by Emilia Costantini
Storia d’amore e di calcio by Michele Santeramo
Mario Fratti Award 2014: Via dei Capocci by Carlotta Corradi
Third edition MAY 2015 – Festival dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini
Shows:
Viola di MAre with Isabella Carloni
Taddrarite by Luana Rondinelli
Ninetta and the others by Errare Persona Company
WEBULLI by Industria Scenica
CHEZ DIMI by Dimidimitri
CINGOMMA by Jessica Leonello
Readings:
Angiulina La Mula by Rossella Raimondi
Giuseppe Musolino: A drama in acts by Giuseppe Morabito
Le Beatrici by Stefanno Benni
Mario Fratti Award 2015: Mater Familias by Pier Lorenzo Pisani
Fourth edition MAY 2016 – Festival dedicated to Luigi Pirandello
Shows:
Adam & Eve by Mauro Santopietro
Ocean terminal with Emanuele Vezzoli
La Cuoca Primavera by Chiara Cervati
A Serbian Housewife – Stabile del Friuli
Pinocchio Fellini by Titta Ceccano
Mario Fratti Award 2016 winner: Butterflies by Emanuele Aldrovandi
Fifth edition MAY 2017 – Festival dedicated to Mario Fratti
Shows:
Non dirlo. Il Vangelo di Marco – Monologue by Sandro Veronesi, from the book by the same title published by Bompiani.
TEN – Dieci by Andrej Longo,
Albania casa mia by Aleksandros Memetaj
DER PUFF – frammenti cantati di corpi internati by Francesca Falchi
L’invenzione senza futuro by Federico Giani, Mauro Parrinello, Celeste Gugliandolo, Francesca Montanino
La mia idea. Memoria di Joe Zangara by Ernesto Orrico
Riccardo and Lucia by Claudia Lerro
Rock Oedipus by Manolo Muoio
Mario Fratti Award 2017: The Land of the Swollen Faces by Paolo Bignami
Sixth edition MAY 2018 – Festival dedicated to the first laws on Mental Health
Shows:
MADE IN THE US – Italians making theater in the US.
A MOTHER’S HEART By Daniela Dellavalle,
DHANA AND THE ROSEBUDS by Federica Cellini,
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Italians from Italy
ECHOES By Lorenzo De Liberato
HAPPY MARY By Lorenza Pieri
THE MEJERCHOLD TWINS by Davide Schinaia, with Francesca Airaudo and Giorgia Penzo
THIS IS MY HOUSE by Alessandro Blasioli
STRIA by Claudia Donadoni
MY LAST NIGHT – Mia Martini, a life by Aldo Nove
F.M. AND HIS DOUBLE by Fabio Marceddu and Antonello Murgia
DEGEN(D)ERATION – The Ghost of the Tribade by Francesca Falchi
ANGELA’S WARS by Giuseppina Facco
Mario Fratti Award 2018: The City Rises (La citta’ che sale) by Chiara Boscaro & Marco Di Stefano