Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
The International Voices Project will present an English language stage reading of “Hide and Seek” by Italian playwright Tobia Rossi at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the Cervantes Theater in Chicago.
The free performance will be followed by a complimentary reception and conversation with the playwright as well as Laura Caparrotti, founder of In Scena!, the largest Italian theater company in America.
According to publicity provided by the IVP, the play, “looks at the dangerous power of social media and how vulnerable young minds can be to loud, discriminatory voices around them. Set in a small town in Italy, Gio runs away and hides in a cave, desperate to escape his reality, where he doesn’t feel accepted by family, teachers or peers. When his popular classmate Mirko accidentally finds him, Gio enlists him as an accomplice and the rival teenagers embark on a journey of discovery with dark consequences.”
Tobia Rossi is an Italian playwright, drama teacher and screenwriter who has worked with major theater companies in Milan and across Italy. Rossi is also a story editor for TV and cinema and a teacher at the Franco Parenti Theatre, Luchino Visconti National Film School and European Institute of Design. He is a part of OMISSIS, a project aimed at building a community of contemporary Italian playwrights and promoting their work.
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