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MARCO CALVANI
(1980 - )Nationality: Italian
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Trained as an actor, Marco Calvani made his debut as a playwright in 2002 with Quasi, commissioned by the European Social Forum. Commissions from the Todi Art Festival, the Phoenix Theatre of London, Teatro di Roma and the Grec Fundacio of Barcelona followed. Strong Hands was his first successfull play, performed throughout Europe. His play The City Beneath had its New York debut at the Sage Theater in 2009. In the same year he also wrote and directed Penelope in Groznyj performed first at Berlin's Kunsthaus Tacheles and was the only European guest at Bali's international Ubud Festival. In 2011 he won a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts of Paris and was invited by the Theatre de la Ville to represent Italy in an International Writing Project. In the same year he was awarded the Siae Prize as best playwright at the Spoleto Festival. In 2012 for the first AdA he wrote Things of this world directed by Neil LaBute (Spoleto Festival, Fringe Festival Madrid, La MaMa Theatre). In 2013 the Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana organized a retrospective of his work for which he wrote and directed I am Dracula. In 2013 Glory Kadigan directed the New York premiere of Calvani's play Oil for which he was presented with the Award for Outstanding Playwriting at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity Awards. He is the founder and artistic director of Mixo (mixonline.eu), an international cultural center that brings together young actors and writers and promotes original works for stage and screen. His works have been translated and performed in six languages. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Oil Second Time, The Things Of This WorldOil
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Leo is an actor who lands the reality gig of a lifetime. Certain it will bring true public acclaim he stops at nothing to win. Is he ready for the demands and temptations of fame? Will he closet his love to fit a celebrity mold? A black comedy about man's overwhelming greed and eternal conflict between reason and passion.
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It is a meeting between two people who don't know each other. Apparently. They are a clever philosophy professor and his favorite pupil. Apparently. But nothing is ever what it seems and this is also the story of two people who have nothing to hide, until the moment they both begin to wish for an alternative to reality. Philip and Sophia, the two characters in this short piece, have everything to lose -- above all they have outstanding issues with each other and with the law. THE SECOND TIME grew out of the 'task' of investigating the theme of Desire. I then decided to take myself into the dark corners of the desire to possess, both something and someone. Guided by the thoughts and the needs of my characters, I found myself facing the delicate boundaries between the need to Be and the need to Have, a limbo in which Love and Hatred can be mutually confused and nourished and even have the ability to annihilate one another. The title takes its inspiration from Nietzsche's theory of the Eternal Return. As Philip says in the play, "Einmal ist Keinmal" or 'what happened but once might as well not have happened at all,' since everything in life is destined to repeat itself. This is just a theory, but it is also Philip's greatest desire. (M.C.)
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Following the success of the first edition of AdA - Author directing Author - born out of a collaboration between Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani culminating with the presentation of three international premieres of two new plays, performed in Italian, Spanish and English in the summer of 2012 (55th Spoleto Festival, Fringe Festival of Madrid, La MaMa Theatre of New York), the two writers and directors reunite once again for a second edition of the project. During a residency at La MaMa Umbria in June 2014, Calvani and LaBute wrote two short one-act plays around a common theme (DESIRE).
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Top of PageThings Of This World
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Two internationally acclaimed director/playwrights, Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani, explores different styles of contemporary Italian and American Dramaturgy. each writes a short act play about Family , then each author directs the others piece. This extraordinary project was developed during a residency at La MaMa Umbria, debuted at the Spoleto Festival in summer 2012, and makes its American premiere at La MaMa New York.
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ellen StewArt Theater, La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 28 Sep 2012
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 28 Sep 2012
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