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‘Italianeses’

At the end of the Second World War, thousands of Italian soldiers and civilians are trapped in Albania with the arrival of the dictatorial regime, forced to live in a climate of terror and subject to periodic and violent persecution.

Italianeses tells in the first person, with unexpected irony and tenderness, a story inspired by these true stories: Tonino Cantisani was born in a prison camp in Albania in 1951. With a Calabrian father and an Albanian mother, he lived in the countryside for forty years believing in a father and in a fairy tale Italy. In 1991, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he arrived in Italy and reality did not match what he imagined. With a light, poetic tone, Tonino tells us about his love for a girl in the countryside, his and his mother's seclusion, his reunion with his father.

Saverio La Ruina is the author of Italianeses, translated into Spanish by Juan Pérez Andrés and performed by the Italian actor Riccardo Rigamonti, who also directs it along with Maria Gómez De Castro.

VIII Muestra Internacional de Teatro Independiente y Alternativo. Show for young and adult audiences. Language: Spanish.