• «Stirring up the ashes»: Sony Iabou Tansi’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet 

      Bale, Rebekah (Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
      This article presents an English translation of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, explaining the background to the play and its writer, the Congolese novelist and playwright, Sony Labou Tansi. Best known in the West for ...
    • Sulle orme di Gret Palucca. Un equilibrio di contrasti al tempo della Repubblica di Weimar 

      Iovine, Iari (Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
      Acclaimed by the public and critics of her time, Gret Palucca embodies one of the most eminent interpreters of GermanAusdrucktanz. A pupil of Mary Wigman, the dancer inaugurates the Palucca Hochschüle für Tanzin Dresden ...
    • Theatrum mundus, spectator Deus: Agostino e il rapporto tra filosofia e teatro 

      Bisogno, Armando (Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
      Augustin works out, in his long production, a complex but unitary vision of creation; according to him, the history is the scene of the course of human actions (theatrum mundus) and God is at the same time creator and sole ...
    • Violence in ‘Titus Andronicus’: a Benjaminian approach 

      Ballas, Anthony (Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
      This paper offers an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus from the vantage of Walter Benjamin’s concept of«divine violence»,which he theorized in his early work A Critique of Violence(1921). Titus is ...