(May 7) – “When Maria Cassi goes on stage, her energy, her contagious smile and his engaging conversation immediately enrapture the public. Maria Cassi doesn’t need to speak English. Her animated acting and her story are beyond the necessary translations and the audience really do fall in love with her.” This is just one of many exciting reviews written about the Tuscan actress and her shows. Not new to international success, Maria Cassi had great success in New York where she has been appreciated with the show “My Life with Men… and Other Animals”. The Broadway audience did appreciate the overwhelming “one-woman show” of Cassi: star performer on the scene, the revolutionary artist, was also author of the play, written together with Patrick Pacheco, award-winning journalist who worked with magazines such as the The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal”. The show turns over with humor the idea that Americans have about Italian womanhood. Easy to move from acting to singing, Cassi has been compared by the international press to Charlie Chaplin, Jerry Lewis and Jacques Tati. After the experience and great success Off-Broadway and two-month tour in Europe, she returned to Italy. So today, after two weeks at the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, she is mounting “Pardon”, a musical-theatrical on stage from May 8 to 12 at the Teatro del Sale in Florence. ” ‘Pardon’ is a music box where I tell about me, about all I am” said Cassi. With 27 years of experience, the Tuscan artist speaks of the theater as “a place of freedom, a place to express yourself”. (PO/Gil/Red)
