LINGUA FRANCA NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

Show	Did He Like It?		Synopsis
			Lingua Franca follows innocent abroad, Steven Flowers, as he travels from National Service in South-East Asia to 1950's Florence. He soon finds himself working for a chaotically-run language school, together with a cosmopolitan muddle of six foreign misfits killing their post- war nihilism in the cafés of Florence, the cradle of Renaissance high culture. Based around a leading character in Olivier Award-winning playwright Peter Nichols' acclaimed work Privates on Parade, this fast-paced, sexually charged production was the toast of London over the summer.

And Noisily Flows the Arno
By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: November 16, 2010

"How do you say Angry Young Man in Italian? A classic specimen of that breed — and I do mean the type that warrants capital letters — shows up on the banks of the Arno, teaching English to mid-20th-century Florentines, in Peter Nichols’s “Lingua Franca,” which is receiving its American premiere at 59E59 Theaters. "

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