The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781907975806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str.

Donatella Fischer

Opis

The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both sides of one of theatre's most important power relationships: between the exhilarating freedom of performance and the austere restriction of authorship and the written text. This broad-ranging volume brings together critical essays on the role of the actor-author, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present. Starting with Castiglione, Ruzante and the commedia dell'arte, and surveying the works of Dario Fo, De Filippo and Bene, among others, the contributors cast light on a tradition which continues into Neapolitan and Sicilian theatre today, and in Italy's currently fashionable 'narrative theatre', where the actor-author is centre stage in a solo performance.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Actor-Author in Castiglione's 'Il Cortegiano': 'lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia' 2. Perché molte cose stanno ben nella penna che nella scena starebben male' Reading Between the Lines of the Surviving Ruzante Texts 3. Isabella Andreini's Stage Repertoire: The 'Lettere' and 'Fragmenti' 4. Commedie fortunate…’: 'Le due comedie in comedia' di Giovan Battista Andreini 5. The Actor and the Author: Renaissance Theatre in England and Italy 6. Goldoni, Gozzi, e il lavoro con l'attore 7. Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento: dalla drammaturgia dell'attore alla drammaturgia dell'autore e ritorno 8. Il dilemma del teatro: 'La parte di Amleto' di Eduardo De Filippo 9. Characters in an English Adaptation of 'Napoli milionaria!' 10. La scrittura 'sul pubblico': The Fo-Rame Method 11. Franca Rame's Dowry How the Rame Family Tradition Lives On in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame 12. Il 'funerale dell'orale'. Carmelo Bene: la scena e la scena della pagina 13. The Actor-Narrator 14. Marco Baliani's Theatrical Storytelling of Wonderment 15. Sguardi su una Napoli contemporanea attraverso il teatro di Annibale Ruccello 16. Il buio in fondo al sacco Parole in fuga e corpi senza scampo nel teatro di Spiro Scimone

O autorze

Donatella Fischer