Alfredo Fidani Directs 'The Bald Soprano' At Belrose

Alfredo Fidani's a stage director of note in his native Argentina. For some years now, he's lived in the North Bay, keeping his hand in with a few small productions there and in Berkeley. His shows of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame' at College of Marin and of a creatively cut and staged 'Julius Caesar' (in the claustrophobic depths of LaVal's for Subterranean Shakespeare, that caused Fidani to exclaim wryly, "There isn't room enough here for the bodies!") are particularly memorable.

Last year, he presented an unusual version of Steinbeck's 'Of Mice & Men' at the Belrose Studio Theatre, across from the San Rafael Library at 1415 Fifth (near 'E') Street, that once again showed the thoroughgoing artistic and humane honesty of his approach.

Now Fidani's back at Belrose, with a personal favorite of his, Eugene Ionesco's Absurdist comedy, 'The Bald Soprano,' which involves two English couples at a dinner party, a maid and a fire chief who are literally old flames--and a great deal of hilarious, cockeyed verbiage ... everyday life is never the same after 'The Bald Soprano.'

Opens Friday, June 9, for weekends through July 14.

For info & tickets: (415) 454-6422.