Emma Celebrazione! moves to Italy

Graham Pitt's play with choir Emma Celebrazione! - based on the story of Italian immigrant Emma Ciccitosto has been a huge hit around Australia and was revived a few months ago in regional Victoria to packed houses.

The combination of music, pasta cooked on stage and the drama of the relationship between a mother and her daughter make it irresistible.

Next month it will have its premiere in Italy. Perhaps one of the first Australian plays staged professionally in that country.

Now translated into Italian Emma Celebrazione! will be performed by Teatro chrystalis in Bolzano for four performances in September.

If all goes well a national tour will follow in 2007.

Bravo!