THE ITALIANS

BY DANNY BALL

BELVOIR ST THEATRE, SYDNEY (2022)

★★★★ I’VE BEEN LAUGHING FOR 80 MINUTES STRAIGHT… IT HAS THE MADCAP ENERGY OF A SLAPSTICK REVUE

— CULTURAL BINGE

NOMINATED BEST DIRECTION OF AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION

SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS (2022)

Your family have a really woggy vibe – you know, your dad working in the repair shop, your mum at the cafe… which I totally love… and mine are more… Italian.

It’s la dolce vita for Joe right now. He’s got a successful business, handsome boyfriend and wealthy AF future in-laws. He’s clawed his way out of the working class and he’s got freshly steamed linen trousers to prove it.

But his plans for full-blown assimilation take a nasty turn when Joe’s estranged cousin drops by and exposes an enormous family secret. Suddenly, Joe’s on a mission out to South-Western Sydney, to the Italian-Australian heartland and the place where his family’s story began.

CREATIVES

DIRECTOR | RILEY SPADARO

SET + COSTUME | GRACE DEACON

LIGHTING | PHOEBE PILCHER

SOUND | LUKE DI SOMMA

CAST

DANNY BALL

PHILIP D’AMBROSIO

DEBORAH GALANOS

AMY HACK

JONATHAN LAGUDI

EMMA O’SULLIVAN

TONY POLI

BRANDON SCANE

Production photography by Katherine Griffiths

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