The Perky Theresas

This event is part of
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY 2025

Theatrical Performance
The Perky Theresas

Written & Performed by
Alessio Piazza

The author retraces his childhood through the stories of three aunts, conversing with them in the places and with the words that emerge from memories, and which merge with the personal memories of the spectators. A story of a family told with modesty by one of the family’s members where places, facts and people are a mixture of reality and fantasy, between personal anecdotes and others told or heard from other family stories. Inspired by the literary atmospheres of the book “Family Lexicon (Lessico Famigliare)” by Natalia Ginzburg and the cinematographic atmospheres of the iconic movie “The Family (La Famiglia)” by Ettore Scola.

In Italian with English Supertitles

Running Time: 60 min