Think Fellini. Think Claudia Cardinale, David Niven, Sophia Loren. Foreign glamour, American stars. Peter Sellers movies set in Italy. Imagine that Casino Royale isn’t a James Bond plot, but a take on the world. … Ladies and gentlemen, we’re brainstorming here. Black is the new black; red is the lipstick; high is the heel. Imagine what glamorous people get up to in the baroque, possibly lethal, corridors of the house of D’Nacci.
These are the kinds of thoughts a member of the Die-Nasty troupe might toy with on the eve of the 21st annual season of Edmonton’s live weekly improvised soap opera, set among the designers, the models, the haute couture schemers and dreamers of the Italian fashion industry in the ’60s. Even if we’ve never really known what kind of adrenalized spirit possesses our deluxe Die-Nasty improvisers, for two decades we’ve seen how — and how amazingly fast — their minds work. • From Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal
