The Benvenuto Players


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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.

HAIKU 
A beautiful play about family, love, faith, hope and the bonds and compassion between a mother and her two daughters, one of whom is autistic and who, to the disbelief of her sister, is a wonderful haiku poet.

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.