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Celui qui ne vaut pas une risée…

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Il Campiello, Le théâtre de l’Opsis, Cinquième salle de la Place des Arts

by Mélanie Grondin
19.10.2010

Tous pays, je présume, a son grand dramaturge. L’Angleterre a Shakespeare, la France a Molière et l’Italie a Carlo Goldoni. Actif au dix-huitième siècle, Goldoni s’inspire de la commedia dell’arte et dudit Molière pour écrire ses oeuvres. « Bon, mais pas encore Molière », se disait-il lorsqu’une de ses pièces avait du succès, et il [...]

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No Thinking, Per Piacere

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In Piazza San Domenico, Centaur Theatre

by Michael Mirolla
07.10.2009

Steve Galluccio will forgive just about anything – except being bored. Ex-stand-up comic, fringe theatre actor-director-producer, TV and film script writer, and the man behind the mega-hit play and movie Mambo Italiano, Galluccio won’t put up with ennui. In fact, the writer whose In Piazza San Domenico is set to open at Centaur has been [...]

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Challenging Canadian Clichés

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Letter Two, Espace Libre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
02.09.2009

I did not know the real meaning of tour de force until I caught Tony Nardi’s Letter Two at Espace Libre. Nardi has transformed letters – written in reaction to the stereotypical portrayal of Italian-Canadian characters in a Canadian TV series, and reviews of a production of a Goldoni play that perpetuated clichés about commedia [...]

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