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Francesca N. Penzani was born and raised in Bergamo, Italy where she started her theatre studies at Teatro Viaggio and Comuna Baires (Milano). In England she studied at London Contemporary Dance School and worked Independently as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, video maker.... Read More

Tomaso Marcolla was born in 1964, in Trento, Italy, where he currently lives and works. Graduated from the Art Institute of Trento, he began to work as graphic designer in 1985. A member of the AIAP (Italian Association for the planning of visual communication) and member of BEDA... Read More

TheatreFactory Studio is lucky to have found its new residence: a wonderful space in Downtown, ready to be a home for creativity, workshops, new projects and ideas. The first resident project is the play “The Madwoman of Chaillot” by Jean Giraudoux. TheatreFactory... Read More

LA CANVAS THEATRE REVIEW: BITES THE PLAYNOW PLAYING AT THE OLD BANK DISTRICT THEATRE Author: Shana Nys Dambrot TheatreFactory in association with Mama Quilla UK presents BITES: THE PLAY at Downtown’s newest indie performance venue, OLD BANK DISTRICT THEATRE, 136 West 4th Street... Read More

Poor Franz Kafka. The prewar prose master of the sardonic grotesque has taken a terrific drubbing in the English-speaking world, not the least by substandard translations. These have all but eviscerated the caustic irony of his slyly subversive chronicles of man’s quest for... Read More

Das TAZ.DE 31.12.2008 by Maryam Schumacher Everything was already there. Even the New York fund manager Bernard Madoff has an illustrious predecessor. “Die Spitzeder” opens today, sold out, at the Engelbrot Theatre in Martin Sperrs homonymous comedy, once again her kitchen.... Read More

From Maremma to Prussia, for Elena Vannoni (in the picture) the story of a success. With a question that may refers to all of us: why a girl from Follonica has to go to Berlin to see her talent being aknowledged? Arrived to the German capital, Elena was offered the artistic... Read More

More than often theatre becomes the mouthpiece of our times’ unease and uses its own peculiar language to denoun- ce facts and realities for all the world to see and, right becuase of that, often overlooked. The union between script and performance enriches itself of a particular... Read More

“Morsi” (bites), play by British playwright Kay Adshead, an Italian-German coproduction directed by Elena Vannoni, is a show in seven “courses”, served by six actors, among which Carlo Emanuele Esposito and Veronika Steinbock. Food becomes a metaphor to tell everyday... Read More

ROMA – The title says it all! “Bites” by British playwright Kay Adshead, on stage at Teatro dell’Orologio, is a show marked by the courses of a planetary meal: star soup (episode taking place in Afghanistan), hog roast (in Texas), pickle and so on. This work, translated by Andrea... Read More