No Parole - Family is a Life Sentence Hot

Hilarious journey through the real life of a criminal mother, as seen through her son-partner-in-crime. 'Ferocious fun...Fascinating...I left wanting to know more!'

Acclaimed solo performer Carlo D'Amore has brought his life sentence across the Atlantic Ocean: audiences and critics have responded with applause to his solo show No Parole, this engaging production, directed by Margarett Perry, follows the real life adventures of his con artist mother and her son through an enchanted, unbelievable childhood, to adulthood, regrets, reconciliation, and beyond.

In this wry, energetic semiautobiographical adventure play, No Parole takes the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the real life a flamboyant, live-for-the-moment con artist mother, who has no trouble posing as an attorney, professor, or paramour of a Spanish recording artist --- as seen through the eyes of the young son who acts as her look-out, bail, partner-in-crime, and follows her across borders, into jail, and finally to the end of the road.

Performer Carlo D'Amore plays all the characters, from his mother as a vibrant, young woman, to her 60 year-old stroke-battered self, as well as himself as a child, teenager, and adult, his brother, father, various law enforcement officials, doctors, and others taken in by his mother's imaginative schemes -which run the gamut from shoplifting to international smuggling. Traveling from their native Peru, bypassing Mexican border officials without legal Visas, and into the promised land of the U.S., from the Hollywood Hills to an illegal New York City walk-up, No Parole provides a vivid, hilarious look into the life of an extraordinary woman who saw the world as her playground, and the children she dragged along with her.

Critics such as Reyhan Harmanci of the San Francisco Chronicle have found No Parole to be 'fast paced ? seductive power ? he makes his whole family come alive. So fascinating that I left wanting to know more. ' Rob Avila of the San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote, 'Its theatrical chronicle, deftly conjured by the skillful and charismatic D'Amore, comes over in great cinematic images like a black-box blend of Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almod