Date/Time
Sunday 09/17/2023
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Museo Italo Americano
Categories
Edith Wharton, Italy, and The Bunner Sisters (Le sorelle Bunner)
Sunday, September 17, at 4:00 p.m.
Join writer Richard Alleman, director Anthony Newfield, and translator Simone Pratelli for a staged reading of Le sorelle Bunner (The Bunner Sisters).
The play was inspired by an Edith Wharton novella, and prior to the reading, we will discuss Wharton and her love for Italy—a country she wrote about frequently—and the theatre. We will also discuss the art of translation, focusing on Pratelli’s work on The Bunner Sisters.
The play follows the lives of two spinster sisters as they try to eke out a living as seamstresses in 1880s New York. Their lives are upended, however, with the arrival of a mysterious gentleman on the scene.
The play’s world premiere was in San Francisco in 2016 and was slated for a production off-Broadway in New York in 2020 when it was cancelled due to COVID. It was translated into Italian in 2021 by Simone Pratelli with an eye to a production in Italy.
Giving San Francisco audiences a chance to catch the Italian version of the play, the Museo will present a slimmed-down Le sorelle Bunner, with an English synopsis provided for non-Italian speakers.
Followed by a reception.
Free to Members
$10 to Non members
Cover image: Jack Hamilton
Bookings
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