I work in opera, theatre, combined arts, multimedia and cinema.
I collaborate with practitioners coming from different backgrounds and areas of expertise.
In 2010 I founded Panta Rei Theatre a collective of international artists. Our work includes stage productions, adaptations of classic texts, new writing, combined arts performances, site-specific projects, devised theatre and Commedia dell'Arte shows.
A history play set in the commedia dell’arte tradition, yet extremely contemporary in its references to a divided, xenophobic Europe and the dangers of dogmatism.
(Don't You Dare!)
The Guardian
★★★★
Filled with vivid flights of fancy, 'Rocinante! Rocinante!' is an intriguing piece. Sweeping parasol oceans and miniature tin-pan solar systems make this a sophisticated visual work.
(Rocinante! Rocinante!)
Time Out
★★★★
Imaginative and engaging, with a compelling and twisting narrative that will make an audience both laugh and cry.
(Don Quixote! Don Quixote!)
A Younger Theatre
★★★★
The company’s venture into using classical literature to tackle perceptions and tolerance of mental health, is an innovative and refreshing use of theatre.
(Rocinante! Rocinante!)
The Public Reviews
★★★★
A history lesson that transcends space and time. Effortlessly funny, infusing razor-sharp humour in her social critique and painting a jarring picture of today's political climate.
(Don't You Dare!)
Broadway World UK
★★★★
Slowly, inevitably, a vision of Hell takes hold of our senses – eyes and ears assaulted and the chill biting… the overall impression is one of being inside a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.
(Rocinante! Rocinnate!)
Broadway World UK
★★★★
Italian writer-director Chiara D’Anna uses the commedia dell’arte tradition to explore how the historical anti-woman propaganda is part of a continuum.Different century, the same shit.
(Don't You Dare!)
The Stage
★★★★
Taking its subject matter from the originality of Cervantes’ 'Don Quixote', the setting for the production masterfully constructs madness as a kind of ecstatic and passionate state.
(Rocinante! Rocinante!)
The Fringe Review
★★★★★
D'Anna is able to highlight a world gone mad in this intellectual storytelling, leaving the audience uplifted, angry, upset and humoured all in one!