Thursday 23 June 2011

Plane Food Cafe: Napoli Teatro Festival

Plane Food Cafe was spotted in Edinburgh and invited to the Napoli Teatro Festival in Summer 2010.

Here is a review from Teatro Magazine (click to enlarge):


The show was performed in two languages, which required extensive rewrites, rehearsals and the unique performative talents of the popular neapolitan actress Monica Nappo:



Monica's career has gone stratospheric since Plane Food Cafe: Here she is receiving direction from Woody Allen on the set of his latest movie:




















This is an example of the 'Plane Food Cafe Halo Effect', which will be the topic of a future post.

The mechanics of the set were reconfigured to suit the space:


and there was a discussion about the show and the issues raised:



The Italian plane food was by far the tastiest yet.

But that title remains up for grabs, as Plane Food Cafe is still available for international touring.



Nappo and DeDomenici relax after a hard fortnight's work.