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The Teaching Talking Theatre was founded in 2009 by actor-director Fabrizio Bonora and Claudia Helen Calvi, teacher and mother-tongue speaker with a history of dabbling in the theatrical.The idea comes from the desire to use theatre as a means of assisting the teaching of English in Italian schools. The use of comedy and the interactive nature of the theatrical style employed allow the spectators to feel more at ease using the language they have acquired in the classroom and which in other circumstances they might feel shy or wary of using.The distinctive adaptation of the stories means that the audience is entertained but is also stimulated to engage with the English language outside the formal context of the classroom. The continual interaction between the spectators and the actors makes for a dynamic, enjoyable and energy packed show.
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CLAUDIA HELEN CALVIBorn in Nairobi in 1968, an English mother-tongue speaker, she studied Drama and Theatre Studies in Stratford-on-Avon and at the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London. She has taken part in productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Bloomsbury Theatre of London. At present, apart from collaborating with Fabrizio Bonora, she teaches English.
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