Based on Paolo Sorrentino’s Novel
PERFORMED BY IAIA FORTE
Performed by Iaia Forte, leading actress in The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino (Academy Award, 2014, Best Foreign Language Film.)
The play is a monologue based on Sorrentino’s 2010 novel, Hanno tutti ragione (Everybody’s Right,) which tells the story of Tony Pagoda, a singer from the far suburbs of Naples.
During his long career, Tony performed on stage across the world’s most important venues, including Radio City Music Hall, where he met Frank Sinatra. A great ladies’ man, cocaine addict and alcoholic, he emigrates to Brazil to start a new life, until he receives an offer he can’t refuse.
Told in a breathless, irreverent first person voice that is as original as any in contemporary literature, Everybody’s Right is the debut novel from one of Italy’s most compelling and singular creative minds. Paolo Sorrentino, known principally as the director of movies considered to be among the finest examples of cinematic art by any Italian filmmaker in recent decades, here proves himself to be an equally formidable novelist. – from Europa Editions website – The book Everybody’s Right has been nominated for Italy’s most prestigious literary award, The Strega. ( more info )
60 min. – in Italian with English supertitles
The performance is part of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY from June 9 to June 24 in all five NYC boroughs and in Washington DC.
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Reservations available until June 12, 2014 at 2 PM
Reservations are available until we reach
capacity or by the above date/time (whichever comes
first.)
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
MORE INFO
IAIA FORTE
Iaia Forte was born in Naples, graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made her theatrical debut with Toni Servillo, beginning a long collaboration with the theater company Teatri Uniti and some of Italy’s most prominent theatre directors.
She was awarded the critics’ prize for best actress in The Misanthrope (directed by Toni Servillo) and the Florino Doro award of the Società Dantesca. On film, she has worked with Pappi Corsicato (Il Seme della Discordia), Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover) and many others.
Iaia has won two Nastri D’Argento awards, a David award (the ‘Italian Oscar’), a Globo D’Oro award, a Ciak d’Oro, as well as a Linea d’Ombra and a Sacher award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Iaia played Trumeau in The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino (Academy Award, 2013, Best Foreign Language Film.)
PAOLO SORRENTINO
Born in Naples, Paolo Sorrentino is one of today’s most successful and active Italian directors and screenwriters.
In 2001, he made his first feature film, Man Up, starring actors Toni Servillo and Andrea Renzi, which was selected by the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for three David di Donatello.
In 2004, his second film, The Consequences of Love, was presented in competition in Cannes, winning several prizes, including five David di Donatello, four Nastri D’Argento and five Ciak d’Oro. With Family Friend, Sorrentino was once again invited in competition in Cannes and participated in several international festivals.
Il Divo, starring Toni Servillo once again, was also presented in competition in Cannes and won the Jury Prize, as well as seven David di Donatello, five Nastri D’Argento and an Oscar nomination for Best Make Up. In 2010, Sorrentino wrote his first novel, They’re All Right, which was a finalist for the Premio Strega, followed by Tony Pagoda and his friends.
Thanks to his successful career, Sorrentino scored his English-language debut in 2011 with This Must Be the Place starring Sean Penn. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and won several awards including the David. Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty was the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards, at the BAFTAs and the Oscars.
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