Reading of the first draft of the complete translation of A Notebook for Winter (Un quaderno per l’inverno), under the direction of John Gould Rubin. The play, written by Armando Pirozzi, winner of the 2017 Ubu Award for Best New Italian Play was presented for the first time to an American audience in December 2017, at the Martin E.Segal Theatre Center in New York, as one of four plays selected by The Italian Playwrights Project US Advisory Board.
The publication of the full play in English, translated by Adriana Rossetto for the Martin E. Segal Center Publishing House, is foreseen in 2019. During that year A notebook for the Winter will be a subject study of the theatrical translation course at the Muhlengerg College – Pennsylvania.
A Notebook for Winter is a two-actor-piece which, in three acts, tells the story of an introvert professor of literature who finds a burglar on his way back home. The knife-wielding burglar wants something unexpected from him: it is a question of life or death. During the entire night the two characters talk, exchange ideas, feelings, ask painful questions out of hope and desperation, in a completely new and unexpected atmosphere. They will meet again years later, both affected by that night. Although their personal memory of that night is different, yet it may have triggered a change in both of them, by offering a further comprehension and awareness of each other. The key idea is based on the power of writing as a way to directly impact reality: the wonderful resilience of poetry is not seen as a literary exercise, but rather as a vibrant force which affects life.
The Italian and American Playwrights Project has been created and curated by Valeria Orani, Director of Umanism in New York and of 369gradi in Italy and by Frank Hentschker Director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Graduate Center City University of NY). The project’s goal is to disseminate Italian contemporary writing for the theater in the USA and vice versa. The initiative will give continuity to the important artistic dialogue between the two countries which has been sporadic in the course of the last 30 years.
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