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Futuristi - Globe and Mail-Michael Harris
Futuristi - Georgia Straight-Colin Thomas
Futuristi - Ubyssey Newspaper
Futuristi - Marco Polo News (Italian)
Best Italian Variety Show - Marco Polo News (Italian)
Best Italian Variety Show - Off Centre Magazine (English)
Roving Characters, Whistler - Marco Polo News (Italian)
Plum + Other Colours - TV Week Top 10 (English)
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“The
Vancouver International Comedy
Festival was thrilled with the spontaneous, quick witted street
performances of BellaLuna. The audience, and indeed the merchants on
Granville Island, really enjoyed the humour and skills of these
talented artists.”
- Wayne
Specht,
Artistic Director, Vancouver International Comedy Festival
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“Thank you so much for a heart warming and wonderful, thoroughly enjoyable performance. The audience thought you were a blast! You made all kinds of connections with the Italian traditions and very representative of the way we are! I could not stop laughing. My wife, who is Canadian (no Italian background) could not stop laughing. I talked with many of the others, older and newer Italian Canadians and they said that they did not have such a good time for a very long time. Humour is wonderful thing, it's healing, it's educational and most of all it's entertaining. Mille grazie per tutto!"
- Tony Fantillo, President of the Campbell River Italian Cultural Society
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“The Best Italian Variety Show - Ever! offers a unique opportunity to experience Italian culture through the eyes of a young, energetic, first generation Canadian Theatre Company. Using mask, movement, text and music, TBIVSE comedically explores themes of immigration, stereotype, loneliness, and [...] weaves a very funny and fast-paced show that moved the audience to laughter and tears.
The company is highly skilled in theatre techniques including mask, mime, dance and movement. This show would play very well in communities throughout BC with an edited (for time) version being very suitable for schools. I have worked with BellaLuna twice now and would not hesitate to do so again.”
- Ian Forsyth,
Arts Services Mgr ñ Shadbolt Centre For the Arts
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“Molto
professionale e sicura la
presentatrice Susan Bertoia e ben riuscita l’animazione della serata
fatta dai gruppi Public Dreams, Mortal Coil e BellaLuna Production, che
ad un certo punto...tre spiritose vecchiette che ingaggiavano battute
con il pubblico.”
(“The
host Susan Bertoia was very professional and engaging. The evening,
which included Public Dreams, Mortal Coil and BellaLuna Productions,
was a success as three spunky old ladies captivated the audience.”)
- Gigi
Proitti,
L’Eco D’Italia (Italian Language Newspaper)
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“Susan is an energetic, highly skilled, exceptionally well
trained, disciplined actor. Her enthusiasm is infectious and students
respond enthusiastically to her... It was fascinating to watch as the
group transformed into stock characters under Susan¹s enthusiastic
guidance... a highlight workshop not to be missed…”
- Linda
Beaven, Drama Instructor at Summerland Secondary and Artistic Director
of The Good Will Shakespeare Festival
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“From your
workshop our High School students were inspired to create their own
commedia show... thanks!”
- Mary Sloan,
Drama Instructor and Actor at the Whitehorse School of Performing Arts,
Yukon
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“The class
still refers to your visit. Bringing theatre history alive in the
manner which you did is totally dynamic, just like you.”
- Arlin
McFarlane, Theatre Instructor at Yukon College
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