Published Books
Tre Sguardi Su Pinocchio
by Dacia Maraini, Silvia Calamai & Paolo Tartamella
In the Italian Cultural Center Italytime, set up in the West Village of New York, many initiatives have intrigued and thrilled the public, which is not only of Italian origin. Here we present this text on Pinocchio in which three looks, three styles and three ways of placing oneself on the stage are intertwined. We divided the task between three theatrical authors: Paolo Tartamella, Silvia Calamai and I. Each of us took an episode of Collodi’s book and staged it: Pinocchio trying to bury the coins and ending up deceived by the cat and the fox; Pinocchio cared for and teased by the blue-haired fairy; Pinocchio ensnared in the Land of Toys. Pinocchio is disobedient, naïve, selfish, lazy, a liar, but also lovable in his candor; cheerful, dynamic, and generous, as invented by its author, and as it is still read and known by many readers in the world. Collodi’s book is one of the most read and reprinted books in the entire world literature. We hope that this theatrical text will encourage us to reread Pinocchio and to reflect on the great themes that the author proposes to us: the desire for fatherhood, the complex and playful relationship that can occur between the lies and the truths, the desire to create a child, at the cost of sculpting it from a piece of wood, the escape from poverty, the dream of a better future, the deception and cruelty of the strong ones on the weak, the poignant and generous love of a man who manages to transform a piece of wood into a child of flesh and bones.
– Dacia Maraini
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Three Eyes On Pinocchio
by Dacia Maraini, Silvia Calamai & Paolo Tartamella
Geppetto is a poor carpenter living alone. He longs to have a son, so he creates it himself. So, Pinocchio is a boy made of wood brought into a world of humans through the great fantasy of its author, Carlo (Collodi) Lorenzini.
Geppetto’s love transforms the marionette he created into a boy of flesh and bones, forever. When we are brought into this world we are all Pinocchio, independently of our gender. That is why I wanted to have this universal character performed by a female.
This fairy tale teaches us a lot about the boy-adult relationship, whereas the latter abuses the innocence of the former. Pinocchio is made of wood and human flesh. The stars from where the Fairy descends shine with a unique and limitless light that can illuminate, for each one of us, a path covered with love and solidarity.
– Vittorio Capotorto
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Creative Fusion
Edited by Vittorio Capotorto
CREATIVE FUSION is a book edited in 2017 for an inaugural evening of Italytime, a new Italian Cultural Center born in New York that wants to draw the attention of a large and important literary and artistic audience.
The book includes the original bilingual one-act play “A Provincial Painter,” written by “our” great author Dacia Maraini, that presents, in a scintillating way, a variety of themes that lie at the heart of italytime’s mission: to help young generations of artists to nurture their dreams, discover their identity, and build a better world.
The reader becomes a witness to a generational conflict about professional choices (i.e., a secure job with a familiar routine or the risk of failure and poverty in order to follow an artistic endeavor), to a young artist’s problems assimilating in a stratified art market, to the confrontation between allowing oneself to be absorbed by success and the freedom to follow one’s own timing and spontaneous creativity.
The forest designed by Carl Tallent and the lights designed by Dan Jobbins create the surreal and arcane battlefield that focuses on the contemporary world, with emotional rhythms well orchestrated with the original music composed by Domenico Capotorto. The paintings of Lisa Zaccaria open our minds to ancient and eternal themes that pervade humanity.
– Vittorio Capotorto
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Bullets
by Sasà Zuaro
Sasà Zuaro’s poem plays hide and seek. He starts his stories with a strong style, and immediately after he enjoys erasing the plot so that the reader is always left high and dry. You can see the circles in the water, but you do not see who threw the stone, who made it jump on the liquid surface, to then make it fall into the depths of the sea without leaving a trace.
A poem that creates labyrinths and pitfalls, preserving their fraudulent elegance and mysterious grace.
There are many portraits, among which the high ego that emerges assertive, as the title of a particularly happy poem.
– Dacia Maraini
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Orlando Innamorato – Orlando in Love
by Matteo Maria Boiardo
Episodes edited by Jo Ann Cavallo
Matteo Maria Boiardo’s poem “Orlando Innamorato” (Orlando in Love) is populated with knights, damsels, giants, wizards, fairies, and monsters, in alternating episodes of love, magic, adventure, and warfare, sometimes told through the creative rewriting of classical texts. This 35,440-verse chivalric poem has never been adapted for young readers before, either in Italian or translation. This adaptation remains faithful to the fast-paced richness and playful flavor of the original. – Jo Ann Cavallo
