Green Porno
Isabella Rossellini is a well-known multi-talented Italian actress. The daughter of late Hollywood screen legend Ingrid Bergman is also a model, author, philanthropist and filmmaker, known as much for her talent as for her classic beauty.
As if that wasn’t enough, Rossellini is now studying animal behaviour at Hunter College in New York.
Her interest in animal behaviour led to the creation of a critically acclaimed and provocative short film series on the mating rituals of animals. During the shorts, Rossellini dressed in a variety of colourful insect and sea-creature costumes to describe and enact the mating rituals of those creatures.
Green Porno, written in conjunction with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, is the new and quirky one-woman comedy show culmination of all of this.
Rossellini is coming to Australia to take the audience on an unusual and fascinating journey into the sex life and mating habits of a number of land and marine animals – the snail, the worm, the fly, the shrimp, the deadly spider, the praying mantis, the anchovy and the bi-phallic snake.
Green Porno mixes live performance with several of the original short films and each story, read and performed by Rossellini, is scientifically accurate. It will no doubt be fascinating. (LL)
Mar 22 & 23, City Recital Hall, Angel Pl, Sydney, $79-99, (02) 8256 2222, cityrecitalhall.com
