Commedia dell’Arte comes alive when played passionately by characters, as a sort of spiritual need. It is a spectacular dance of contrasts. In my 40 years of work as an actor, I have always discovered its delightful poetry, ...

In Giorgio Strehler’s brechtian itinerary, Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses is one of the most controversial production and even less known. Brecht wrote the play in 1929 to expose the evil and contradictory gears of ...

Book review for On Ibsen and Strindberg: The Reversed Telescope by Franco Perrelli. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-5275-1853-7)

This is Tobia Iodice’s latest work and it is about the relationship between Gabriele d’Annunzio and the Neapolitan culture of the end of XIX century. This period (1891-1893) was very important for D’Annunzio both for his ...

Through the analysis of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s letters – both published and unpublished – Silvia Zoppi Garampi has shown the importance of studying correspondences, often crucial in revealing various dynamics behind prose ...

In this work, Guarino reports the adventure of a personal night, looking around for a Presence, a light who eventually will come to save him and bring him away from the darkness. The author try to escape from this sense ...