Butterflies
salta a esito operazione
Theatre
By Emanuele Aldrovandi
Translated by Carlotta Brentan
Directed by Jay Stern
Starring Danielle Sacks and Annie Watkins
Lighting Design: Kyle Soble
Set Design: Sarah Edkins
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Winner of the 2015 Hystrio Award and of the 2016 Mario Fratti Award
Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of NY
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World premiere in New York of the show Butterflies written by Emanuele Aldrovandi, playwright and director from Reggio Emilia who has already received many awards in Italy and abroad. The play is now first staged under the direction by Jay Stern.
It is a fantastical tale of personal growth among sisterly love and sisterly rivalry in which self-discovery is not always accompanied by greater understanding of the other person.
As from the Hystrio award statement, it is a text «able to attract out attention, but also to move us with gleams of poetry» not only for the beauty and credibility of the two female characters, but also for «a bit magic realism that turns it into an odd black fairy tale in which the games are cruel and goodness is ambiguous».
Butterflies / Farfalle will be first staged in Italy in the coming season 2019-2020 under the direction by Emanuele Aldrovandi himself, produced by Associazione Teatrale Autori Vivi, ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro, and Teatro Elfo Puccini of Milan.
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The opening night performance in New York on May 29th will include a talkback with playwright Emanuele Aldrovandi, Laura Caparrotti, and Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Giorgio van Straten, as well as director Jay Stern, translator Carlotta Brentan, and the cast of Butterflies.
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from 29/05/2019 to 08/06/2019 hour 19.00
Emanuele Aldrovandi (Reggio Emilia, 1985) is a playwright, screenwriter, translator and director. After a bachelor degree in Philosophy and a master degree in Literature, from 2009 to 2012 he studied playwriting at the Paolo Grassi Academy of Dramatic Arts in Milan, Italy. In 2013, with Homicide House, he won the most important Italian playwriting award, the Riccione/Tondelli, and his plays started to be staged in many theatres all over the country and abroad. In Italy he also won the Pirandello National Award with Happiness, the Fersen Award with The General, the Hystrio Award and the Mario Fratti Award with Butterflies. He has written plays, adaptations and translations for some of the most important Italian and European theatres, he has translated into Italian plays such as Trainspotting and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He has been invited to many international festivals and he has created and developed site-specific theatre projects and multimedia museum exhibitions. He was one of the European playwrights selected by Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe, the main exchange playwriting program in Europe, and his plays have been translated, performed and published in English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian and Catalan.
In 2018 he started to work also as a screenwriter and movie director, writing and directing his first two short movies. He's a playwriting teacher in one of the most important Italian theatre school, the Paolo Grassi Academy of Dramatic Arts, and he's leading many writing workshops in Italy and abroad.
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