WHEN:
April 26-June 6, 2025
WHERE:
Moving Arts
3191 Casitas Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...true story of intrigue and artists, set during the 1936 Fascist Italian investigation of pornography charges in Taormina, Sicily. This artistic prosecution uncovers a much darker secret of an 1890s love triangle involving poet Sebastian Melmoth, photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden and an 18-year-old Sicilian boy. What might be discovered, and sacrificed, to protect secrets of the heart?..."
CAST:
Robert Mammana as Wilhelm von Gloeden/Cesare Acrosso (Broadway - Les Miserables, National Tours - Show Boat, Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, Off-Bway: The Twentieth-Century Way, Regional: Geffen Playhouse - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Pasadena Playhouse - The Father, Casa Valentina, Sleepless in Seattle, South Coast Repertory, 2x Los Angeles Drama Critics Award winner, LA Weekly Theatre Award winner, Nominations: 3 LA Ovations, 3 LA Drama Critics Circle, 2 Chicago Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes); Rob Nagle as Sebastian Melmoth/Francesco Maffiotti (Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss at Boston Court Pasadena - Los Angeles Drama Critics Award / Lead Performance, Oscar Hubbard in The Little Foxes, Antaeus Theatre Company - Los Angeles Drama Critics Award / Featured Performance. Leading roles in productions at Road Theatre Company, Troubadour Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Rogue Machine, Skylight Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Centerstage, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory); Massi Pregoni as Pancrazio Buciuni (Trilingual - English, Italian, and Spanish, recently starred in the crime thriller Guns and Moses, opposite Dermot Mulroney, Neil McDonough, Christopher Lloyd, Mark Feuerstein, and Jake Busey. At the Odyssey Theatre, Massi appeared as Michael Newsome in Greg Burdick’s Accommodation – “Breakout Performance in a Play” award from Stage Scene LA. Massi voiced, in both English and Italian, a role for Guillermo del Toro’s Academy Award-winning animated film Pinocchio).
CREATIVE TEAM:
Written by Tom Jacobson
Directed by George Bamber
Produced by Exeunt Productions & BINC
Presented at Moving Arts
Mark Mendelson (Scenic Design), Garry Lennon (Costume Design), Jenine MacDonald (Props), Michael Donovan (Casting).
