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.
CHRISTMAS SHOW
Click
on the image above to download the poster as a PDF.
Click right for our page of the ICI website.
Click below right to play a video excerpt from the show.
We are delighted to report
that our first productions have been fully booked and warmly received
(click on the links or scroll down this page for further details
and photographs):
3 by Pirandello
a rehearsed reading of new English adaptations of 3 one-act plays
by Italian playwright Luigi
Pirandello at the Italian
Cultural Institute in February 2008;
TeatroShorts
a production of Pirandello's The
Man with a Flower in His Mouth at RADA in September 2008.
We are
most grateful to the many sponsors and supporters who have got
us off to such a good start.
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 the following 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 CHRISTMAS FAIR
Please come to our Christmas Fair on Sunday 14th December.
It
will be a great day out for families. As well as traditional
Christmas activities for children,
there will be a three
course lunch and a chance to see our new production of The
Gingerbread Man. All
this for £15 (children £5)!
Click on the image on the left to download our poster as a PDF.
NEW SPONSORS WANTED
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 will allow us to 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 posters, flyers, educational pack, etc;
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.
TeatroShorts: The Man with the Flower in his Mouth
Tricolore Theatre
Company was proud to be part of Teatroshorts 2008,
the first ever festival of short stage plays, organised by
our friends of Italian Nights.
Our production was The Man with the
Flower in His Mouth by
Pirandello.
The
event was hosted by RADA, with performances in the Jerwood
Vanbrugh Theatre. And a very fine event it was, with an audience of more
than 180 people.
"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.
