Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The Microsociety of Actors. A Story Spanning More than Three Centuries. – A Meeting Between Historians and Actors. – A Tomboyish Mother. Maria Teresa Presenzini’s Diary. – “The Authentic Stuff” and Italian Great Actor. – The Poetry of Actions. – The Artist Actor. – On the Cultural Varieties of Direction. Claudio Meldolesi, who died in September 2009, was one of the founders of the journal Teatro e Storia. He was one of the most important Italian theatre historians, and was admitted to the Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world and the most prestigious Italian cultural institution. The Dossier comprises seven important writings that are difficult to find today. They show Meldolesi’s commitment to the renewal of theatre studies and his defence of the values of research and innovation in theatres whose action takes place outside the theatre establishment. The first of these writings deals with the theme of the microsociety of actors; the last (unpublished) deals with the problem of the revolution of practice and theory of mise-en-scène which transformed the idea of theatre itself in Europe during the last years of the Nineteenth century and in the Twentieth century.
Source: Teatro e Storia
Author: Meldolesi, Claudio
Language: Italian
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219922396