Making contemporary a text written centuries ago
at Catholic University of America (3PM)
Laura Caparrotti, Kairos Italy Theater (KIT) Artistic Director and Decameron director, will lead a seminar on how KIT worked on a text written in 1348. The seminar will underline not only the work with the actors but also the work on the translation of the language and the meaning in the Decameron. The company will present part of the Seventh Story from Day the Seventh to better explain the process of working on the Decameron.
Photo: Detail of Sandro Botticelli, “The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: The Banquet in the Pine Forest,” ( Eighth Story of the Fifth Day of The Decameron) 1483. Tempera and oil on panel, 84 x 142 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid
DIRECTOR: Laura Caparrotti
YOUNGKIT
Ilaria Ambrogi
Francesco Andolfi
Giulia Bisinella
Carlotta Brentan
Francesco Meola
Jacopo Rampini
Irene Turri
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LOCATION
Catholic University of America
Callan Theatre
3801 Harewood Road NE
Washington, DC 20017
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
KIT-KAIROS ITALY THEATER
KIT-KAIROS ITALY THEATER is internationally recognized as the Italian Theater Company in NY. KIT’s mission is to spread Italian Culture and to create an Italian Culture Network in order to maintain and spread the knowledge of Italy in the United States. KIT has produced more than 20 performances and events over the years, collaborating with Off-Off and Off-Broadway theaters and with US Institutions (The Kitchen, The Fringe Festival, the Abrons Art Center, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’ at NYU, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Film Society at Lincoln Center, Dahesh Museum of Art, NY Hall of Science, the Flea Theatre, Theater for the New City, Montclair State University, Suffolk County Community College, the Bernie West Theater at Baruch College, the cell theatre, etc). Never-before-translated works by major Italian playwrights have been presented to US audiences, who have grown in appreciation and in number since KIT’s first production in 1997. KIT has also created the Double Theatre Experience, where One-Act plays are performed first in English and then in Italian in the same evening, by different casts. KIT also offers workshops on Commedia dell’Arte and other traditional Italian theater techniques as well as Italian&Theatre classes. In 2013, KIT inaugurated In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the first Italian Theater festival to take place in all 5 New York City Boroughs. KIT is the Theater Company in residence at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU.
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PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
After presenting the Mandragola, the YoungKIT presents the Decameron and in particular the three novels that Machiavelli moved from to write the Mandragola.
The Decameron, subtitled Prencipe Galeotto, is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353.
The novels presented are:
Day the Third
Here Beginneth the Third Day of the Decameron wherein Under the Governance of Neifile Is Discoursed of Such as Have by Dint of Diligence Acquired Some Much Desired Thing or Recovered Some Lost Good
THE SIXTH STORY
RICCIARDO MINUTOLO, BEING ENAMOURED OF THE WIFE OF FILIPPELLO FIGHINOLFI AND KNOWING HER JEALOUSY OF HER HUSBAND, CONTRIVETH, BY REPRESENTING THAT FILIPPELLO WAS ON THE ENSUING DAY TO BE WITH HIS OWN WIFE IN A BAGNIO, TO BRING HER TO THE LATTER PLACE, WHERE, THINKING TO BE WITH HER HUSBAND, SHE FINDETH THAT SHE HATH ABIDDEN WITH RICCIARDO
Day the Seventh (***this is the only novel that will be presented at the event at 3PM***)
Here Beginneth the Seventh Day of the Decameron Wherein Under the Governance of Dioneo Is Discoursed of the Tricks Which or for Love or for Their Own Preservation Women Have Heretofore Played Their Husbands With or Without the Latter’s Cognizance Thereof
THE SEVENTH STORY
LODOVICO DISCOVERETH TO MADAM BEATRICE THE LOVE HE BEARETH HER, WHEREUPON SHE SENDETH EGANO HER HUSBAND INTO THE GARDEN, IN HER OWN FAVOUR, AND LIETH MEANWHILE WITH LODOVICO, WHO, PRESENTLY ARISING, GOETH AND CUDGELLETH EGANO IN THE GARDEN
Day the Eighth
Here Beginneth the Eighth Day of the Decameron Wherein Under the Governance of Lauretta Is Discoursed of the Tricks That All Day Long Women Play Men or Men Women or Men One Another
THE NINTH STORY
MASTER SIMONE THE PHYSICIAN, HAVING BEEN INDUCED BY BRUNO AND BUFFALMACCO TO REPAIR TO A CERTAIN PLACE BY NIGHT, THERE TO BE MADE A MEMBER OF A COMPANY THAT GOETH A-ROVING, IS CAST BY BUFFALMACCO INTO A TRENCH FULL OF ORDURE AND THERE LEFT
THE YOUNGKIT
Ilaria Ambrogi is a New York based Italian actress. In Rome, she trained at Teatro Azione and starred in different theater productions including “Peter Pan” at Teatro Vascello. She trained in New York as well, and worked in numerous theater and film productions including her one-woman show “Superstars”. www.ilariaambrogi.org
Francesco Andolfi is a member of YoungKIT and an Italian NY based actor who has been pursuing and forging his acting career in the past two years preceded by the Stella Adler Studio Conservatory. “Working on Italian Literature Classics is to me, not only giving life to what my legacy signifies, but also contributing to spread what Italy is to the eyes of whom still thinks there is a single person in Italy who owns a checkered tablecloth”.
Giulia Bisinella Belluno, Italy. American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumna and member of its 2012-13 NY Theater Company; B.A. in Performing Arts at the European Academy of Dramatic Arts “Link Academy”. Upon joining KIT, Giulia’s favorite roles include Daniela (Waxing West) and Ligurio (Mandrake Root). She is thrilled and proud of this new Decameron’s production. www.giuliabisinella.com
Carlotta Brentan is a theater, voiceover and film actress. Training: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Academy Company 2012-2013. Last seen on stage in a workshop and reading of Neil LaBute’s latest play, One Day Like This directed by Mr. LaBute. Thrilled to be part of the fabulous YoungKIT. www.carlottabrentan.com
Francesco Meola has two degrees: in Italian Modern Literature and in acting at the prestigious Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan, Italy. In NYC he specialized at The Lee Strasberg Institute. He worked in more than 20 plays and took part in several short movies, commercials and shows for kids. He is also a writer.
Jacopo Rampini has appeared Off-Broadway and in a number of feature films, shorts, and independent films. He plays young Joseph Stalin in the upcoming TV show World Wars on the History Channel. Jacopo has been a member of the Kairos Italy Theatre Company since 2012. www.jacoporampini.com
Laura Caparrotti (Director) has a Master degree in Performing Arts, Cinema and Theatre History from the University “La Sapienza” in Rome. She also studied independently with Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Annie Girardot. After ten years of professional theatre in Italy, she relocated to New York, where she has directed and/or performed at The Kitchen, The Fringe Festival, The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, the cell, the Flea and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’, among other venues. She was the Assistant to the Director of the Off Broadway production of Eduardo De Filippo’s Souls of Naples featuring John Turturro. She is the world-wide representative of the De Curtis Family, and the curator of Excerpts of a Prince Named Totò, the official traveling exhibition on the Italian iconic actor Totò. She is also a playwright, a journalist, a teacher, a lecturer, a consultant and dialect coach for Italian (Boardwalk Empire) a curator and a panelist for NYSCA. She is member of the Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center, of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the League of Professional Theater Women and the Founding Artistic Director of the Italian Theater Company in NY Kairos Italy Theater. In 2013, Laura started In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the first Italian Theater Festival to take place in all 5 NY Boroughs.
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