Jane House Productions 2002-09: italian theatre in english
Overview
For eight years Jane House Productions was dedicated to presenting the rich array of Italian theatre as American premieres, in English translation, to New York City audiences. The first program, a staged reading of Eduardo De Filippo’s one-act play The Part of Hamlet, translated by Mimi and Nello D'Aponte, occurred in 2002 at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, the CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. Over the next seven years, the company produced eight additional theatrical events, a number of which captured the attention of Italian and Italian-American newspapers. On May 13, 2009, the company presented its final event, an evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pirandello Society of America and the career of Marta Abba, Pirandello's muse.
Luigi Pirandello (1)
Why? (Perchè? 1892), a one act, his first published play
January 28, 2003
Translated and directed by Jane House Preliminary remarks by theatre scholar Marvin Carlson on “The Fin-de-Siècle Italian Stage.” Closing remarks by Jane House on Pirandello's Youthful Passion: Writing for the Theatre.”
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 686 Park Avenue, NYC
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Natalia Ginzburg
I Married You for Fun (1964)
March 31, 2003
Translated and directed by Jane House
Discussion with Patricia Clough, Chair, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center; Jane House, translator and director; Marsha Norman, playwright and co-director, Playwrights Program, The Juilliard School; and Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, poet, and translator.
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
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Luigi Pirandello (2)
Tonight We Improvise (Questa sera si recita a soggetto, 1929)
March 1, 2004
Translated by J. Douglas Campbell and Leonard G. Sbrocchi
Directed by Elfin Frederick Vogel
Music Director: Daryl Curry
Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
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Raffaele Viviani
Via Toledo by Night (Via Toledo di notte, 1917)
November 1, 2004
A Neapolitan play with music and song
Translated by Martha King
Directed by Jane House
Music Director: Martin Hennessy
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
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Manlio Santanelli
Queen Mother (Regina madre, 1984)
December 15, 2005
A Neapolitan black comedy by Manlio Santanelli
Directed and translated by Jane House
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
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Dacia Maraini
An Evening with Dacia
May 3, 2006
Readings from Mary Stuart, Camille, Notarbartolo
Directed by Jane House
PLUS Videos, slideshow, panel discussion with the playwright, and Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov, co-directors of the Living Theatre
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
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Roberto Cavosi
An Evening with Roberto Cavosi
May 7, 2007
Readings from Maresciallo Butterfly, Bellissima Maria, and Notte d'Epifania
Directed by Jane House
Plus short video, slides, and panel discussion with distinguished scholar Paolo Valesio
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduae Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
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Pirandello Society of America, 50th Anniversary
50th Anniversary Celebration of PSA
May 13, 2009
Featuring:
“Pirandello’s Muse, Marta Abba,” a talk by
Benito Ortolani, Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College
Editor and translator, Pirandello’s Love Letters to Marta Abba
and
Staged Reading, Pirandello’s one act, The Other Son
Translated and directed by Jane House
and Panel Discussion with
Benito Ortolani, Jane House, and Janice Capuana
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue NYC