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Drama
Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously....
Marco Micone's first play, Voiceless People, portrays the exploitation of first-generation Italian immigrants Addolorata focuses...
Author of more than 60 plays and considered on a par with Pirandello, Eduardo De...
Four vastly different characters illustrate various ways of life and elements of existence in the...
Pasolini published the Manifesto for a New Theatre in Nuovi Argomenti in 1968, while preparing to direct Orgia, another of his six verse tragedies. While betraying his personal dissatisfaction with his own theatre work, the Manifesto mercilessly dissects Italian theatre into two types and exposes the presumption and uselessness of both. Later, in 1968, when his production of Orgia is met with hoots of derision, he will take the blame upon himself, saying: "My fault. I hoped to create a shift by leaping over the rules decreed by mass culture. But to do that, you have to commit yourself...
