The production of the short story entitled “Eresia catara” staged by the Istituto Comprensivo Statale Italiano in Barcelona won the first prize for higher Secondary Schools in the “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand” playwriting contest.
The closing event of the contest took place in Agrigento on 7-10 May and was promoted by the Regional School Board of Sicily, in conjunction with the “Luigi Pirandello” Theatre Foundation, the “Valle dei Templi” Tourist District, the “Michelangelo” Fine Arts Academy in Agrigento, the “La Strada degli Scrittori” Association, the Region Sicily and the Municipality of Agrigento. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been supporting the event for the past three years, extending it to Italian schools in the world and foreign schools teaching the Italian language. The theme of the competition is writing a play drawn from one of the short stories by the Agrigento-born writer and producing short plays. The playwriting contest “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand” is linked to the theme chosen for the next Week of the Italian Language in the World and namely: “Italian on stage”, which is scheduled for 21-27 October 2019.
The contest’s programme comprised several theatre workshops as well as cultural events dedicated to Luigi Pirandello, the man and the writer. Agrigento welcomed several delegations of students and teachers including the Scuola Italiana paritaria,Montevideo, the Collegio Nazionale Baritiu in Cluji-Napoca and the “Connecticut Academy for the Arts”, Torrington, Connecticut, USA. They all performed their stage productions. The “Pirandello” Theatre in Agrigento screened short videos produced by the Lycée “Cité Scolaire Internationale”, Grenoble and the International School, San Francisco. The Italian School in Madrid, the Lycée International “Jean-Pierre Vernant”, Sèvres, the IMI Italian High School in Istanbul and the Collège “Les Haute Grillet”, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, were also among the winners.
The book entitled “Nuvele pentru un an” was presented at the event: a translation into Romanian of Pirandello’s “Novelle per un anno” (Short Stories for a Year) by Alexandru Laszlo, a teacher at the Collegio Nazionale Baritiu in Cluji-Napoca.
To see the program of the event: http://www.
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