Invisible Cities dicamillo At once intimate and universal

At once intimate and universal

Artfully adapted almost entirely from Ted Geisel’s work

When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde

and unspoken pain

From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans

Invisible Cities dicamillo At once intimate and universalCities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco PoloMongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: