THE ITALIAN DIVORCE
From Marriage Breakdown to Family Meltdown - A Heartwarming New Comedy About Love, Guilt, and Discovering That Some Prisons Come with Home-Cooked Meals and Unconditional Judgment
MELBOURNE, VIC - Aug 2025.
You can leave your wife ... but you can never leave the family.
From award-winning writer and director Frank Lotito (Big Mamma's Boy, Wog Boys Forever) comes a brand-new comedy stage show that's equal parts heartwarming, hilarious, and culturally chaotic: THE ITALIAN DIVORCE - a laugh-out-loud, tear-alittle comedy that dives headfirst into the madness of culture, love, and the kind of family you can't return to sender.
When 36-year-old Pino gets kicked out by his wife, he does what any selfrespecting Italian man would do, he moves back in with his parents, who happen to live next door.
What was meant to be a short break from his wife quickly turns into a full-blown family fiasco. His overbearing mother is already planning his next wedding, his father dishes out advice from 1971, and his fiercely independent sister urges him to flee the country. Meanwhile, his wife wants him to grow a spine and cut the apron strings, and Dimitri, the Greek neighbour, keeps turning up with ouzo and unsolicited wisdom.
It's a household bubbling over with laughs, lashings of lasagna, and just enough dysfunction to make you feel better about your own family. And yes - Mamma has already posted all the details on Facebook.
CAST
Frank Lotito (Big Mamma's Boy, Wog Boys Forever) as Bruno - the retired carpenter who still works for cash
Steve Mouzakis (Prison Break, Clickbait) as Dimitri - the overly friendly Greek neighbour/philosopher who just won't leave
Rosanna Morales (The Wedding) as Lucia - the iron-fisted matriarch with a wooden spoon and good intentions
Louisa Mignone (Wentworth) as Teresa - the fiercely independent, unmarried sister Davide Mollica as Pino - the unlucky-in-love son trying to please everyone, with nowhere to hide
Jeanette Coppolino as Lisa - the exasperated (soon-to-be ex) wife who wants more from her husband and less from her mother-in-law
The Italian Divorce is more than just a comedy, it's a tribute to the tug-of-war between tradition and independence, and the beautiful mess that is family.
