Welcome to Tricolore Theatre
Company. We are a professional theatre company based
in London and dedicated to the promotion of international culture,
literature and language.
We are delighted to report that our first event, a rehearsed reading
of new English adaptations of 3 one-act plays by Italian playwright
Luigi Pirandello, was a wonderful success! The event, held at the
Italian Cultural Institute in February 2008, was fully booked and
the feedback we received was most encouraging. We are most
grateful to the many sponsors and supporters who made it possible.
NEW
SPONSORS WANTED
We are now preparing our first Christmas show at the
Italian Cultural Institute (ICI)
on Saturday 6th December at 4pm, once again with the generous support
of the Institute who will be providing refreshments on the day.
The Gingerbread Man (L’Ometto di
Pan Pepato), is our first bilingual English / Italian
children’s
play - a new adaptation by published novelist Penny
Culliford.
Penny
has also written stories and poems for children, and currently
teaches drama and creative writing to primary school children.
Our hour-long show will be strongly visual, with audience interaction,
incorporating as much Italian as possible. The story, not well
known in Italy, will be told slowly and clearly. Not frightening,
it should appeal to children of a wide age range.
The click-to-play excerpt above features our proposed cast.
Carole Carpenter, who plays
the Gingerbread Man and the Cat,
is also an accomplished musician, and she will be composing the
music for the production.
Phil Gerrard, who has played
The Fox in a tour of Pinocchio, will also double as the Dog and
the Old Man.
Tricolore's director, Nadia Ostacchini (pictured
below, in a bilingual Italian touring production of Hansel
and Gretel, makes up the trio, playing the Old
Woman, the Cow and the Horse.
Tricolore
are currently in talks to have The Gingerbread Man staged in a
prestigious venue in Rome in late October 2009 and are looking
for additional part-funding for this project. We will offer pre-
and post-performance songs & activities with the children,
following the theme of the show, and we are planning to devise
a workshop ahead of our dates in Rome next year.
We encourage potential sponsors to come forward now. Confirmed
finances well ahead of our Christmas event will allow us to most
efficiently allocate our time and resources to maximise the quality
of the shows.
Thank you to everybody who has already offered us their support,
for which we are most grateful.
Click on the image below for a page of links to sponsors' and
supporters' websites.
The benefits of sponsorship, which
are negotiable, include:
a link from this website to yours, based on your logo;
a dedication in the programme for the production;
a special mention at the December 2008 show in London;
complimentary tickets for our opening night
in London or Rome.
Contact Tricolore's Director, Nadia Ostacchini,
for full details:
Nadia
Ostacchini is a professionally trained actress, raised
in London of Italian parents (mother from Treviso and father
from Parma). She is a fluent Italian speaker with a B.A.
(Hons.) degree in Italian from University College London, graduating
in 1994.
Nadia
has lived and worked in Treviso and Bologna and, notably, in
Venice as an interpreter and translator to an Arts Consultant
at the Salvador Dali exhibition.
Since graduating from the Academy Drama
School in London in 2003, she has toured the UK, Slovenia
and Italy. In 2005 she toured Italian theatres in a bilingual
Italian/English production of Hansel
and Gretel. In 2006, she played Hermia in an open-air
production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Click
on the image below
for a page of photographs taken at Tricolore's
fundraising dinner in December 2007
In
2007,
she toured Slovenia in a production of Look
Back in Anger. More recently still, she presented
an evening of English and Italian short films (with subtitles)
for the Italian Nights Association.
3 by Pirandello: Tricolore's
first production
Nadia
Ostacchini writes:
"I was first introduced to Luigi
Pirandello's work while at university. However,
it was sometime after graduating from drama school that I began
to feel discouraged by how infrequently theatre companies present
international works here in the UK.
"In 2007, I searched the shelves
of theatre bookshops and well known bookstores in London, only
rarely coming across Italian plays translated into English.
"Whilst there is no doubt that Luigi
Pirandello, Carlo Goldoni, Eduardo
de Filippo and Dario Fo are
renowned in the UK, their works are rarely presented here,
either in English or the original Italian. I have formed TricoloreTheatre
Company with the aim of correcting this oversight."
TricoloreTheatre
Company in rehearsal at the Italian
Cultural Institute, London.
