We didn't make it

Yesterday I received the letter from the Fringe...I saw the letter...a regular letter...and I just knew...

I remembered when i received the reply for BAAAHHH!!!...it was this big heavy envelope...

Not this time...

I opened it just looking for THE words...and there they were "we are sorry to inform you..." I closed it...

I felt a bit sad of course...but inside I also knew that I didn't feel the same passion I felt for BAAAHHH!!! for this new project...so I let it go...

I knew I had a friend who applied with a show as well and I just had my fingers crossed for him...later in the afternoon he told me he got in :) I was thrilled for him...it's his first time for at the Fringe and he wrote the show...I'll be there supporting him...and I'm so very happy for him :)

Things happen for a reason and maybe it's better this way for me...Stefano is super busy in Italy with a bunch of new show and he's bringing Avenue Q there and he's working like a mad man for that...
On my side I just booked 2 huge voice overs in New York and one of them will keep me bnusy until the end of July...

I'm also looking for a new project...something that will excite me the same way our little sheep did...

Thanks to all of you who are still stopping by here...

Any day now we'll get an answer from the Fringe...I can't wait!!!

My heart is with Italy
This horrible earthquake is the worst one Italy had since the one in the '80s...I remember that one very well...

My heart goes to everybody who's be affected...my family and friends are safe and I thank the Universe for that!
But they all heard it and it was very strong...some of my friend knew people in that area who lost everything...

A thought, a prayer is for all of them...

Rights

Another good news is that we got the rights for the show...now we have to wait for the Fringe to send us a reply...to see if we'll make it into their festival this year...we should hear back from them around mid April...

Yesterday I got few ideas for the show and I have my fingers crossed...it would be great to be back at the Fringe Festival especially after we did it once...now we really have a better understanding of how the festival works...

YES WE CAN!!!

These are few words about our new project by Mr. Genovese, enjoy it :)

Kenneth is the husband, the more exposed member of the contemporary weaker sex. He is what is today’s real weaker sex.

Weak because he cannot decide between an ex-wife, Hilary, who cooks like a gourmet chef and his wife, Laura, who satisfies his erotic dreams. And so Kenneth cheats on the housewife, Hilary, with a bombshell lover, Laura, who, bored of being a lover, decides to become a bombshell wife, who then Kenneth cheats on with the housewife lover Hilary.

Weak towards them because he doesn't have the power to choose which of the two is his wife. Weak in the pitiful fact that the only thing that he can chose is that the other is his lover. Weak towards himself, because he cannot let go of the other as a lover.

Weak because in the attempt to maneuver the strings of his two puppets, those same strings get tied up in a net which traps him like a fish raised in a house aquarium. But far from being a house pet he reveals himself to really be an animal in captivity: raised and nourished to be eaten.

We are not talking about people. We are talking about two women with a function that makes them feeling accomplished, and about a man with two needs to satisfy. In short we are talking about relationships. About love.

The woman who cooked her husband is a dry dark comedy, basic, direct, true. Characters with few lines, nuances, who in their short 'domestic' existence, pursue their purposes essentially. They don't have a life outside; probably they don't exist outside that door. Everything that is on the other side of that front door, in that city, whether is a deserted suburb, an anonymous metropolis or a sleepy town, must be even more anonymous and flavorless of this existence of theirs, if they decide that this tenacity towards their lives is the best choice.

One of the most unmerciful portraits of the holy sanctity of marriage.

Based on millions of true stories, and if it's not your story is your neighbor's.

WE ARE BAAAHHHCK!!!


Long time no write...but I gotta say I used to stop by here often and this place always put a smile on my face.

Stafno was very busy with many different projects in Italy, one of which will open there in a few weeks...

Meanwhile I followed our little sheep and I know it in my heart that one day that show will be where we want it to be...
Right now there's also a possibility to do a staged reading of the show in Rome...we'll see...and of course you'll be the first one to know :)

But I surely didn't stop working and looking for other projects...both myself and Stefano we read so many different plays, but all of them even if some were very good, just ended up on the cutting room floor...they weren't what we were looking for...but then...

Years ago I remember coming across a good female monologue and I remember buying the play it was from...at the time I did find that script interesting but nothing happened...
Few months ago I decided to use on of the scenes in one of my acting classes and I fell in love with it again...I mailed the play to Stefano and two months later (gotta love the postal service in Italy) he got it...

He was so very busy rehearsing his shows in Italy but one day he told me that he was gonna read it before going to bed...

At a very late time in Italy I received a text message from him...he was laughing and telling me how much he loved it!!!
I remember just smiling and already picturing us at opening night hehehe I can't help it....

Then I get other texts with lines from the play and a bunch of smiling faces...we both knew we found our new project!!!

So we talked and we decided to apply once more for the FringeNYC...it's such a prestigious festival and every year is growing more and more...

We got this play just in time...the last day to apply for the festival is this upcoming Saturday...

Cross all the fingers you guys have...we know how hard it is to get accepted...

Once again me and Stefano will codirect the play and I'll be acting in it, as well as Felipe Bonilla, the lead actor in BAAAHHH!!!...and of course we'll have Marcello La Ferla on our side for beautiful logos and amazing creative ideas...

The show has 2 women and 1 man...so we will audition for the other woman if we get accepted at the Fringe and we'll have an answer from them by mid April...

Meanwhile...ladies and gentlemen I'm very proud to introduce to you

by Debbie Isitt...

...off we go again folks...are you all with us?