Saturday 4 October: Theatre basket reminds Manuelita Baylon

“He has left a great woman – Manuelita Baylon said, recalling last 2 March, The Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella - Manuelita Baylon, has given a lot to the Florentine theater, Tuscany and not only. Actress highly appreciated by audiences and critics, and a great connoisseur of Florentine traditions, it is thanks to her that the city was founded the first school of theater in the vernacular ".

Now after 7 Florence months and Theatre basket, Saturday 4 October, at 21, with free admission, remember Manuelita Baylon with a series of video, mounted and chosen by her husband, l’attore Remo Masini, from the archive family videos, In addition to participation and testimonials from many fellow actors and especially of many of his former pupils of the school of theater in the vernacular.

Manuelita Baylon, in his long career has been so loved by the public.

His story, with a long resume, binds to the Florentine theater, and its most important theaters, and to national production of the first floor.

In the company of Dory Cei, where he was a character actress young and young, met Remo Masini, with whom he shared, as wife, the rest of life.

In the nineties he founded the Theatre of basket, with the director Oreste Pelagatti, the first school of theater in the vernacular in Florence, whose courses has continued until last December, along with his Remo.

Honorary fellow of the Florentine traditions, Manuelita was divided, in recent years, between theater engaged, comedies of Italian and foreign authors and the rediscovery of the texts of the noble Florentine vernacular.

Shy personality and loving scene Manuelita Baylon, even courted by the cinema, has always refused important roles on the big and small screen, although occasionally it is granted some "escapade".

Frank Mariani

By the number 33 – The Year of 1/10/2014

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