22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
This playwright had never heard of being embarrassed to be Italian. But his father's experience of feeling like an outsider prompted this award-winning solo show
When Farren Timoteo's Italian-Canadian father Luigi was growing up in Jasper, Alberta, in the late 1960s and '70s, he felt like an outsider.
'He wore a suit to school and he would take these elaborate Italian lunches — pastas or cured meats, like salami — and the other students would make fun of him,' said Timoteo on a Zoom call from his home in Edmonton.
