New themes and original ideas in Italian drama (60's-70's) Cover Image

Tematici noi şi idei originale în drama Italiană (anii ’60 -’70)
New themes and original ideas in Italian drama (60's-70's)

Author(s): Svetlana Târtău
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Art
Published by: Universitatea de Teatru si Film »I.L. Caragiale« (UNATC)
Keywords: dramaturgy; themes and original ideas; styles; characters; experimental theater; moral and physiological aspects;

Summary/Abstract: The article contains an analysis of dramaturgy during the period of 60-80's of XX century and highlights on essential ideas and subjects approached by Italian authors: from Pirandello’s successors and epigones of bourgeois theater, to a new taking off group of play-writers, hard to put them under the same label. Patroni Griffi finds themes and transforms them into explosive parabolas, Aldo Nicolay – searching for balance between themes and variety of styles, Massimo Dursi pays special attention towards characters and historic-mystical subjects, Giovanni Testori places himse Pirandello frame of themes, but trying to get out of it, Natalia Ginsbourgharshness, showing well delimited dramatic technique, and Roberto Lerice bourgeois couple, crisis of values, of character acqui The authors of article comes to the conclusion that in this period a new drama quick evolution is noticed, that the Italian play writers are engaged to bring on stag political and moral) and themes and ideas are presenting a crisis of values of consumerist society.

  • Issue Year: 11/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 18-25
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian