THE ITALIAN MARIONETTES IN ATHENS... TO FILL THE VOID OF JOY PERIOD OF FAST
THE ITALIAN MARIONETTES IN ATHENS... TO FILL THE VOID OF JOY PERIOD OF FAST
Author(s): Maria MavrogeniSubject(s): History, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Visual Arts, Comparative history, Modern Age, 19th Century, History of Art
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Marionette; Puppet Theatre; Prandi; Entertainment.
Summary/Abstract: The Greek puppet theater had just taken its first professional steps in the Greek capital in the 1880s when a famous Italian marionette troupe visited Athens and undertook to introduce the urban audience to the unknown art of the marionette · to the traditional repertoire and, more importantly, to the glitzy luxury of the latest choreography and the phantasmagoria of the technological developments on the European stage. This article aims to give a clear picture of the first marionette troupe’s visit to the Athenian terrain and focuses on how the reception of the new entertainment interacted with and impacted the already existing domestic experience.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 294-315
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
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