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Does the Italian Theatre Exist?

The Tulane Drama Review, 1964
It is not an easy job to write about something which may not exist. Theatre? Does it still exist? And Italian theatre? Has it ever existed? Many people doubt it. Italian opera existed once, but what about Italian comedy and Italian drama? As far as I know, people have always spoken of them as being in crisis.At times I try to find comfort in the ...
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British acculturation of Italian theatre

2000
This article analyses some of the difficulties inherent in British translations and productions of Italian plays. I argue that these obstacles are not so much related to the exotic character of Italian theatre itself, but that they are on the contrary generated by the British attitude to Mediterranean cultures, in particular Italian culture.
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Performing Ethnicity: Italian Canadian Theatre

Canadian Theatre Review, 2000
In the course of a CTR planning meeting some time ago, one of the members of the editorial team turned to me and asked, “What about a future issue on Italian Canadian theatre?” That meeting, and the phone call I made to the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre later that afternoon, marked the beginning of a series of coincidences which have led to
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The Italian theatre of Verdi's day

2004
Within Verdi's long life and career, Italy witnessed two Wars of Independence (1848–49, 1859–60) and a social and political revolution: in 1861, the previous collection of small absolutist states became a single constitutional monarchy which subsequently enjoyed decades of rapid economic and civic development (particularly in the north) resulting from ...
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Italian Futurist Theatre 1909-1944

1998
Abstract Italian Futurist Theatre provides an overview of the theatrical activities of the Italian Futurist movement, headed by F. T. Marinetti. It analyses the theory and practice of Futurist performance, covers the theatre work of all leading artists and writers of the movement, and discusses the principal aims and achievements of ...
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Introduction: Italian Theatre Reverberated

2022
In the eighteenth century, Italian musicians, singers, actors, and dancers criss-crossed the whole of Europe, advancing the circulation of dramatic repertoires, artistic excellence and socio-political ideas. Mapping Italian Theatre provides a new critical overview of the circulation of the Italian theatre and opera across Europe in the seventeenth and ...
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A History of Italian theatre

2006
“A History of Italian Theatre”, of which the present writer is co-editor, is a history of Italian theatrical scene from Middle Ages to nowadays, that focuses on the relationship between drama, acting traditions, exchanges and reciprocal influences with the international stage. This is the first wide-ranging history of Italian theatre in English.
PUPPA, Paolo, FARRELL J.
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MITAP: Mapping Italian Theatre Archive Project

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Frattali, Arianna, Lepore, Ilaria
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Funding Agencies for Italian Canadian Theatre Projects

Canadian Theatre Review, 2000
For a small, newly formed theatre company in Toronto, the first several years can prove to be its making or unmaking. The most innovative ideas and promising actors alone cannot always sustain a group in the absence of the funding necessary to move from conception to production.
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The Tempest and Italian Improvised Theatre

2014
There exists a critical prejudice, which seems to be quite long-standing, maintaining that The Tempest is one Shakespeare play — perhaps the only one — whose plot comes entirely from the dramatist’s imagination, without being based on any narrative or dramatic source.
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