Skylight
21st March - 1st April 2012
Rome, Italy
 Director: Psyche Stott
Kyra: Sandra Paternostro
Tom: Rinaldo Rocco
Edward: Vico de Carle
Set Designer: Ciro Paduano
Set Construction: Soledad & Janosh Agresti, Andrej Vrhonik
Costumes: Alessandro Bentivegna
Composer: Fabrizio Gatti
Stage Manager: Raffaele Furno, Theodora Voutsa
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"Mr. Hare has written a play (Skylight) that is both devastatingly clear-sighted and compassionate .... the play glows with a bewildered but invigorating respect for life as it is" New York Times
Skylight opened at the Royal National Theatre in 1995 and won the coveted Laurence Olivier award for Best New Play and later was nominated for several Tony Awards. This mesmerizing chamber piece explores the highly charged personal relationship of Tom and his former lover Kyra. Their unexpected reunion ignites not just viable passion, but their long-standing ideological differences. The play is "a wrenching dance of desire and frustration, reaching out, shuffling forward and then quickly drawing back, like children fascinated by a fire." New York Times.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
 Sir David Hare is one of Britain’s most outstanding contemporary playwrights, directors and screenwriters. He is currently the Associate Director of the renowned Royal National Theatre and has won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Olivier. He gained commercial recognition as a screenwriter with films such work includes Plenty (with Meryl Streep),The Hours (with Nicole Kidman) and The Reader (with Kate Winslet). Page Eight (with Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Bill Nighy) has just been released and has been both written and directed by David Hare.
3rd December 2011 GLBT The Show - Teatro dell'Angelo - Rome
 Cast & Crew
Marco Quaglia
Sandra Paternostro
Rinaldo Rocco
Director- Raffaele Furno
Lighting Designer-Alesssandro Pezza
Multimedia- Refat Ara Jerin Ontora
Food & wine-Trattoria Luzzi / Anti Luzzi Café
Post show discussion - Amalia Macri Amnesty International
GLBT The Show is an original piece of theatre which uses Shakespeare's The Seven Ages of Man speech (As You Like It) as a spring board to explore a gay man's journey through life using excerpts from world literature, music, current affairs, film and tv, creating an entertaining and thought provoking evening.
GLBT The Show is a reading in English with Italian subtitles and was conceived for Europride 2011, raising awareness of poignant issues that are still affecting gay rights in the world today.
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5th July 2011 GLBT The Show - Formia Italy
 Cast & Crew
Marco Quaglia
Sandra Paternostro
Rinaldo Rocco
Director- Raffaele Furno
Lighting Designer-Janos Agresti
Multimedia- Refat Ara Jerin Ontora
Betrayal
9th-20th March 2011
Rome Italy
 CAST & CREW
Emma- Sandra Paternostro
Robert- Gianpiero Cognoli
Jerry- Rinaldo Rocco
Waiter- Ferdinando Schiavone
Director- Donnacadh O'Briain
Costume & Set Design- Alessandro Bentivegna
Lighting Designer - Tap Payne
Composer- Phillip Stewart
Stage Manager- Raffaele Furno
Sound/Projections- Julia Beltran
Marketing & Press- Ursula Seelenbacher & Mila Monaco
DSM- Margaret Payne
Props/ASM- Maria Vorhis
Costume/Set Assistant- Andrej Vrhovnik
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“Betrayal is an exquisite play, brilliantly simple in form and courageous in its search for poetry that turns banality into a melancholy beauty. Behind its smooth pastel surface is a haunting vision of a man as a creature trapped in an orbit of betrayal that sends him circling around the ideal without ever reaching it”. Jack Kroll, Newsweek
This quintessentially British playwright has never written anything simpler, sadder or funnier than Betrayal, and is at his most lethally ironic in this intimate study of sexual infidelity and betrayal. This text gives the audience a unique opportunity to experience this universally acclaimed modern classic in its original form. The play deals with an affair that entangles a married couple, Emma and Robert, and their close friend Jerry (who is also married). The complexity of the relationships is only revealed through short, simple dialogue in scenes that progress backwards, beginning with the story nearing its end, thereby using reverse chronology in a particularly innovative way.
About the Author
 Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930 and died on Christmas Eve, 2008. He was married to Antonia Fraser. He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, twenty-one screen plays including The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth, and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room and The Almeida Theatre, London in Spring 2000.
In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honor for services to Literature, the Legion D'Honneur, the Lawrence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. He received honorary degrees from eighteen universities.
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