NEXT SHOWS
COMPASSIONATE HEALING (TWO SENIOR PRODUCTIONS)
Cineteatro Santomanzio, via S. Caterina 32, 21028 Travedona
Friday, 16 May 2025, 20:00
Saturday, 17 May 2025, 18:00
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 17:00
The Benvenuto Players are pleased to present an evening under the theme “Compassionate Healing”, with a double play program: Haiku, by Katherine Snodgrass, and Airswimming, by Charlotte Jones, both one act plays that explore the importance and value of humans making connections with others.
Directed by Sanford Clark.
AIRSWIMMING
An enchanting tragi-comic tale of two women’s feelings and lives. The play shows two women who face psychological pressure from their families and society; the women, strangers to each other at the beginning, have been committed to an asylum for the “criminally insane” through no fault of their own. They create an unlikely bond for their mutual support and survival. The play is based on the true stories of women who were placed in such asylums (in the 1920s) for reasons which we would now consider to be totally unjustified. We follow their stories during the 50 years when they were locked away from society until their release in the 1970s as part of the campaign “Care In The Community”. This play is poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes funny but always thought-provoking.
Directed by Deborah Rodari and Caron Bunn.
ThIs production Is not recommended for minors under 12 years old.
Haiku and Airswimming are presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Live music accompanying in collaboration with the JRC Jamm Club.