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© 2019
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
4W - 90 minutes
Lyon, France, 1943. Armande, Claire, Solange and Marthe, four very committed members of the Resistance fight unconditionally for freedom, prepared to anything to save France from the choking occupier. From mission to mission, they will end up setting and executing the mission every French person might have dreamed about.
© 2018
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
1W/2M – 75 minutes
Sicily 1985. Angelina, a former hooker, has been having peaceful days for eigt years, when his son comes back home with a bullet in his side. He has lost a delivery, the money of the most dangerous man of the town.
© 2017
An original play (English) by Natacha Astuto
3W/4M – 90 minutes
The Miller’s, the parents Patty et Charles, the elder son William and his wife Melissa, the fourth son Peter and his wife Cheryl, live in a big ranch in Willcox, Arizona. The second son Michael died in Iraq. Steven, the third son, moved to Los Angeles after the war, of which he came back unharmed. He comes back to the ranch often, particularly to see Melissa, his brother's wife. This year, the whole family will live a summer that will change them forever.
© 2017
An original play (English) by Natacha Astuto
2W – 75 minutes
«Colleen and Emma are worlds apart, and they end up on a boat for an unspeakable reason. Tough and fragile, selfish and generous, strong and funny, they will get through the night together dancing on the rope of their pasts.»
© 2016
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
Finalist of the Winter 2016 Writemovies Contest in Los Angeles
AUDIENCE AWARD at the Festival des Escholiers 2019
1W/1M – 60 minutes
© 2014
An original play by Natacha Astuto
1W – 10 minutes
«The day her sister dies, a woman talks about the void, the hopes, the guilt and the regrets.»
© 2013
An original play (English) by Natacha Astuto
Finalist of the Writemovies Contest #31 in Los Angeles
GRAND PRIX at the Festival de Cahors
YOUNG JURY PRIZE at the Festival de Cahors
2M/2W – 75 minutes
“Both jailed for life, Jack and Robert have been sharing the same cell for nearly twenty years. The cellmates' existence has become a well-oiled but meaningless routine. Obstinately conscious that his life will end in that close cell, Robert cannot bear the situation anymore. Jack meanwhile seems to have accepted this life, but he has not lost hope that he will be released for good behavior. Marianne, their guard from the beginning of their incarceration, is the only woman in their exclusively masculine world. The three of them have built a kind of family relationship that none of them would have otherwise had. Days slowly flow, without great sense, but without trouble either. Until one day, a day with a fierce storm, a day when they receive a visit from a woman.”
© 2011
by Carlo Goldoni
translated from Italian language and adapted (French) by Natacha Astuto
7M/5W – 120 minutes
"Venice, St Mark's square, 1750. Doctor Balanzoni has two daughters to marry off, Beatrice and Rosaura. The first is courted by Ottavio, the second one by Florindo. Then Lelio appears - a young and dashing Neapolitano, a self-assured, smooth talker, who is also a compulsive liar. Seductive towards both young women, he is going to throw disorder into everyone's minds and hearts."
© 2009
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
Finalist stage play of the Writemovies Contest #38 Los Angeles
Official selection of the Marche-en-Famenne Festival in 2009
2M/2W – 75 minutes
"Olivia's father just passed away. Tidying up the apartment of the man who brought her up alone, she finds a box where her mother had gathered letters, pictures, many of those little things summing up a life. Dead when Olivia was three, Marie left small pieces of herself in the box. Opening it, Olivia will release the secrets of a never imagined life. She will however understand the message on her own. Supported by her best friend Florent, she will face the successive enlightening, sometimes doubting her own motivations."
© 2008
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
3M/4W/1K – 90 minutes
"When Deborah, Jean-Luc and their young son Bastien move in their new appartment, this nice and ordinary family does know the move will turn their whole lives upside down. The secret this family hides, almost forgotten with the years, bursts into the open when curiosity rhymes with clumsiness, under the aegis of neighbors which might not be there by chance. But chance does not exist, does it?"
© 2006
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
2M/2W – 20 minutes
A crazy comedy about our crazy lives. Caricaturated, excessively excessive, twisted, this short play nevertheless shows a certain reality of today's society. A lot of us will find ourselves in the play and shall laugh at... ourselves!
© 2005
An original play (French) by Natacha Astuto
16M/18W – 90 minutes
A comedy telling the true story, a hundred years of history, of the Béroche Hospital in Switzerland. It's true with respect to dates and circumstances, but peppered by real fake events, from comical situations to great emotions. This comedy in nine acts can be played anywhere in the world.