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Versatile Actress Explores Mental Health, Sense of Home and Feminism in Her Art

"The only thing that really stayed constant in my life was my passion for the stage. My mom said that before I was born I used to kick to the beat of the music they were listening to. I don't know if that's true, but I like to believe it is. I struggle a lot with my identity because wherever I am it feels like I am a little different than everyone. In New York, well it is also the same, except that there is no one kind of people to adjust to. You are not really supposed to feel like you are from anywhere in particular. I wouldn’t necessarily say that New York feels like home or that I am settled here, but it feels like I can be myself comfortably. " - Giorgia Valenti

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The Opening Night of In Scena! Leaves the Audience in Laughter and Tears

Yesterday’s event featured short bits and monologues from a few of the plays that will perform in the following weeks as part of the festival. The performances included excerpts of As White as Fennel in a Salad with Andrea Ramosi, Spanker Machine with Michela Sale Musio, What Remains – on mobbing, shocking, and other amenities by Monica Faggiani, A Cottage of One’s Own with Natalia Magni, and A Passion, featuring Marco Vergani.

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“The Purgatory Trial of Vito Marcantonio”: A Play on the Progressive Politician

The play opens on August 9th, 1954, the day of Marcantonio’s death. Though a Catholic, Marcantonio was denied a Catholic burial by New York’s extreme right-wing Cardinal Spellman, and thus the action of the play centers around an imagined plea by Marcantonio to be released from purgatory — the repository of souls that God assigned neither to heaven nor hell — and be allowed to ascend into heaven

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In Scena!, the Italian Theater Festival, Comes Back to New York City

Each year In Scena! presents a survey of the best Italian theater from Italy, in New York City. The festival features full productions that have already toured in Italy as well as readings of Italian plays in translation, conferences, lectures and exchanges between Italian and International artists. The goal is to promote greater awareness of Italian theater and Italian artists among New York theatergoers

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