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Il Dolce Theatre Company is an ad-hoc self-financed theatre company that brings socially and politically engaged plays by well and lesser-known playwrights from Central and Southeastern Europe to audiences in Los Angeles. Its main goal is to cultivate theatre that is unfamiliar in LA and use it to inform and enrich theatre-goers.
Current Projects
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Review: Review - Romeo & Juliet: Love is a Fire (seefilmla.org)
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Previous Projects
Colonel of the Birds (2017)
Hristo Boythchev (http://www.hristoboytchev.com) is Bulgarian playwright whose plays have been staged in more than 40 countries on five continents. The Colonel and the Birds is a female version of his most translated and performed drama, The Colonel Bird. This extraordinary play is a tale about outcasts. Unfortunately, today’s world is full of outcasts (refugees, homeless, foreigners, mentally ill…anybody who is in any way, shape, or form different than the “majority”).
These outcasts are attacked, offended, and exiled. In the best case scenario, they are simply ignored by the majority. This play addresses this tricky and often ignored topic with force and gentility, power and poetics, and through soldiers and birds. How many times do we all feel crazy and want to spread our wings to escape the madness in life? And how often do we succeed with this? Are we brave enough to face our fears for the common good? This is a play about despair and hope; a play about sacrificing oneself for fellow humans.
The show ran from October 7 to October 30 in Highways Performance Space (http://highwaysperformance.org/highways/)
Review:
http://seefilmla.org/2016/10/11/transformation-in-the-asylum/
Macbett (2004)
Macbett (written in 1972) is Eugene Ionesco’s satire on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Macbeth.
It was written in the middle of the cold war as Ionesco’s warning to those who hold power. The play discusses how easy it is to misuse power and bring the world (in this case a kingdom) to the verge of disappearance. Il Dolce Theatre’s adapted version was performed in 2004 and included several known speeches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It was produced grace to the special permission given to the company by Mr. Ionesco’s daughter, Madame Marie France Ionesco. The production was critically acclaimed and LA Weekly listed it as one of the top five small theatre productions in Los Angeles for that season.
This show is fully dedicated to the memory of Tim Choate, a wonderful father, husband, friend, and actor who tragically lost his life in a traffic accident while in rehearsals for this production.
The Emigrants (2002)
The Emigrants (written in 1975) is one of the most important plays written by one of the Poland’s most prominent playwrights, Slawomir Mrozek.
It had numerous successful stagings in the US (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C. and New York City). It takes place on a New Year’s Eve in an unnamed western country in the basement home of two Eastern-European immigrants. One (AA) is a political exile, an intellectual who gets his money from a mysterious source. The other (XX) is a ditch digger who is saving money to bring over his family. At first it seems the laborer is uncouth and dependent upon the intellectual, but gradually we come to see that the situation is the opposite.
In the words of Minneapolis Tribune and New York Times, “…it’s a political philosophical discussion of modern life skillfully wrapped in a comic package… A provocative political document and stimulating theatre!”
