Bodies on stage between presence and absence

Annamaria Cascetta

doi:10.18778/1505-9057.55.23

Authors

Annamaria Cascetta Professor, Università Cattolica „Sacro Cuore” in Milan, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e dello Spettacolo and Centro di cultura e di iniziativa teatrale “Mario Apollonio” https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8750-3337

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.55.23

Keywords:

theatre, body, death, memory

Abstract

European theatre engages with the problems of our time with ever greater commitment and responsibility, crucial both on the existential and the social level. At the same time it is researching and experimenting with a language suited for the communicative and aesthetic horizon of our age. This essay, intended to inaugurate in this journal a series of critical studies of the theatre, analyses two works, highly successful internationally, emblematic both by their theme (the body, death, memory) on which they invite the spectators to reflect and the experimental technique through which they involve audiences. The performances analysed are “La Merda” by the Italian Cristian Ceresoli, interpreted by Silvia Gallarani and “Nachlass” by the Swiss-German Stephen Kaegi for the Berlin group Rimini Protokoll.

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Author Biography

Annamaria Cascetta, Professor, Università Cattolica „Sacro Cuore” in Milan, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e dello Spettacolo and Centro di cultura e di iniziativa teatrale “Mario Apollonio”

Annamaria Cascetta, full professor of History of Theatre and Performing Arts. She was teacher in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and at Università degli studi in Milan (Italy). She is member of the executive committee of the international Accademia Ambrosiana (area Borromean Studies) and member of the executive committee of CIT (Centro di cultura e iniziativa teatrale) “Mario Apollonio” which she founded in 2008 and direted until 2013. She is co-director of the series Canone teatrale europeo/Canon of European Drama. She is author or editor of numerous books on the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Italian theatre and twentieth-century European theatre (see Modern European Tragedy, London, New York, Dehli, Anthem Press 2014).

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