Benvenuti!!!!
Legal Aliens is the first Italian theatre company based in London.
After working for years in various theatres both in Italy and the UK, we decided to try and create our own original work, using our ”diversity” to our advantage and promoting plays, writers and artistes who have been contributing to the Italian and European culture.
We plan to talk about Italy - our history and heritage - but also to focus on issues related to identity, immigration, gender and how such issues have changed in the last few decades, despite carrying at their core the same dilemmas (where do I belong? How to keep one’s identity when everything around is alien? What’s a better solution: simply trying to blend in or hang on to our own roots? Is it possible to do both? What gets really lost in translation?)
We’re “aliens”, because we’re not British citizens, but thanks to Europe we’re “legal”, and have the privilege to live abroad without asking for a per, which, as artists, gives us even greater freedom.
We aim not just at raising the interest of the ever growing Italian community in London but also of the British audience and in general of whomever cares about multiculturality.
We’re working together with British and Euroepan artistes in the attempt to form close collaborations and interchanges between cultures.
Our work has received the endorsement of Dario Fo, who warmly encouraged our initiative:
“Having met some of the actresses belonging to the LegalAliens theatre company at Università Statale in Milan, I was awestruck by their enthusiasm and the projects they are trying to pursue in London. [...]
Their starting point, the themes and the way they plan to embrace the stage are definitely to be encouraged, enabling this new group to produce shows contributing to bringing Italian tradition, culture and history to the forefront of the British theatre.
So be brave! You are in a country that has always been open to new ideas and culturally fervent projects. SUERTE! And a big hug from Franca (Rame) and myself. Dario Fo”
