May, 2009 The City University of NY Graduate Center
Readings: Pirandello/Marta Abba Letters & Pirandello’s The Other Son (L’altro figlio)
Panel Discussion: Benito Ortolani, Jane House, Janice Capuana
Artistic Director, Jane House
Author Archives: bb-sboselli
Pirandello Society Panels at the MLA in Philadelphia – December 2009
Theatrical Perspectives: Pirandello, Il grottesco, and Beyond
Panelists:
Annachiara Mariani – Univ. of Tennessee
Michael Subialka – Univ. of Chicago
Samantha Costanzo – Rutgers Univ.
Presiding: Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni, Baruch College
The Sicilian Pirandello in Narrative and Theater
Ernesto Livorni, Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison
Nadine M. Y. Wassef, Univ. of California, San Diego
Janice Capuana, CUNY Graduate Center
Presiding: Janice Capuana
John Welle – The Set with the Diva: Pirandello and the Film Novel
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
6:30 p.m. Room C 201
The Doctoral Specialization in Italian and the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
Lecture by John Welle
THE SET WITH THE DIVA: PIRANDELLO AND THE FILM NOVEL
This lecture compares Luigi Pirandello’s novel on the alienation of a film cameraman, Si gira! (1915) with other contemporary Italian novels set in the world of early cinema. Read together, these “popular” or “mid-cult” film novels, Ettore Veo’s Fantasio Film (1917-18), and Enrico Roma’s La repubblica del silenzio (1918) shed light on Pirandello’s more philosophical narrative and on the cultural reception of cinema in Italy during the critical years surrounding WWI.
John Welle is professor of modern Italian literature, history of Italian cinema, and translation studies. He is the author of The Poetry of Andrea Zanzotto (1987) and the editor and translator (with Ruth Feldman) of Peasants Wake for Fellini’s Casanova and Other Poems by Andrea Zanzotto (1997).
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
6:00 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue New York, NY
Dacia Maraini in conversation with Jane House and Ingrid Rossellini
about Maraini’s new book Colomba
RSVP 212 879 4242, x 368
Eduardo DeFilippo’s Souls of Naples (Questi fantasmi) – Performance
Questi fantasmi
Production, starring John Turturro, directed by Roman Paska, produced by
Theatre for a New Audience, April 2-May 8, 2005, Duke Theatre
Souls of Naples April 2 – May 8, 2005
The sensational John Turturro stars as Pasquale Lojacono, in the American Premiere of a new translation of Souls of Naples, a modern, 1940’s classic by Eduardo De Filippo. The play is a bitter sweet comedy about marriage and De Filippo’s deep look into the souls of people in post World War II Naples. It features elements of puppetry, mask, and the absurd, all part of the bold vision of director Roman Paska. Michael Feingold translates Souls of Naples from the Italian original Questi Fantasmi!
Student group rate tickets for full-time students – $20 a ticket-67% off regular ticket prices.
Eduardo DeFilippo’s Souls of Naples (Questi fantasmi) – Panel Discussion
Eduardo DeFilippo’s Souls of Naples (Questi fantasmi)
Panel Discussion, moderated by Mimi D’Aponte, featuring actor John Turturro & translator Michael Feingold
March 17, 2005, 6:30 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue New York, NY
RSVP 212 879 4242, Ext 370
Symposia: On April 30 and May 7
Mimi D’Aponte, Professor Emerita of Theatre at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center, will moderate a symposium about Souls of Naples. These conversations will include John Turturro and Roman Paska. The symposia are free of charge.
If you have any questions regarding the production or would like to arrange tickets, please phone (212) 229-2819 ext. 15 or email [email protected]
John Turturro in Cecè by Luigi Pirandello
The Pirandello Society of America, The Players & the Italian Cultural Institute
are proud to present a reading of Cecè, a one-act play by Luigi Pirandello,
starring John Turturro on Tuesday evening, April 25th at 8 pm at The Players.
A wine and cheese reception will follow.
Tickets are $40 per person. Seating is limited.
Please mail checks, payable to THE PLAYERS/PSA, by Thursday, April 20th.
at 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote Cecè in 1913. This one act play offers in nutshell fashion its author’s greatest artistic trademarks: fascinating central character, surprising plot twist, indelible humor, and some sense of regret about the human condition.
John Turturro
The highly talented Italian American actor John Turturro, acclaimed internationally for striking performances in such successful films as Do the Right Thing (1989), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), offered a stirring stage performance in 2005 of Souls of Naples by the renowned Neapolitan actor-playwright, Eduardo De Filippo. Turturro recently brought this New York, English-language production, to Naples for a week’s run performed in the famous Teatro Mercadante. Now he benefits the Pirandello Society of America with a reading of Cecè, presented at New York’s oldest and most historic actors club, The Players.
Founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth, The Players houses some of the finest theatrical art and artifacts in the country. Its membership has included such theatrical luminaries as Mark Twain, the Barrymores, Eugene O’Neill, Helen Hayes, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Lord Laurence Olivier, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra. Walt Disney, Carol Burnett, and Tony Bennett. The Italian Cultural Institute, dedicated to strengthening the cultural links between Italy and the United States, is pleased to share sponsorship of Cecè with The Players and The Pirandello Society of America.
Since 1958 when it was established by Marta Abba and George Freedley, The Pirandello Society of America has been championing the works of Luigi Pirandello. It recently published volume XVIII of the annual, PSA. Both on page and stage, the Society offers Americans avenues into the extraordinary output of Italy’s most renowned modern playwright, an artist who has profoundly influenced the course of world theatre.
The American Association for Italian Studies & The American Association for Teachers of Italian Conference 25-28 May 2006: Genoa, Italy
Panel: Pirandellian Narrative and Theatre Organizer & Chair: Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni, Baruch College
Panelists:
“La condizione umoristica delle protagoniste pirandelliane,” Carmela Pesca, Central Connecticut State University
“Elementi paralleli di modernità in Luigi Pirandello e Joseph Conrad,” Valeria Petrocchi, Università per Stranieri – Perugia
“La tragedia del Risorgimento e dell’emigrazione tra scrittura e narrazione ne ‘L’altro figlio’ di Pirandello,” Teresa Fiore, California State University Long Beach
“L’eredità pirandelliana nel teatro napoletano di Eduardo ” Mirella Ioly, Ottawa University and Carleton University, Ottawa.
John Martello in Pirandello’s L’uomo dal fiore in bocca (The Man with the Flower in His Mouth)
Performance:
7 November 2005, 6:00 pm
John Martello in Pirandello’s L’uomo dal fiore in bocca (The Man with the Flower in His Mouth).
Read about the play, including its historical significance as the first British televised play.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 W. 12th St.
New York, NY 10011
The American Association of Teachers of Italian Conference, Washington, D. C.
Thursday, 13 October
Presiding: Giuseppe Faustini
“The Prayer Motif in the Poetry of Pirandello,” David Castronovo, Skidmore College
“Il Fu Mattia Pascal: dalla solitudine alla disgregazione sofistica,” Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander, Nazareth College
Centro Nazionale Studi Pirandelliani, Agrigento – 42nd International Pirandello Studies Conference
Monday-Thursday, 5-8 December
“Il centenario del Fu Mattia Pascal negli Stati Uniti”
Presenting: Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni