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In front of a curtain full of sequins, two smiling and nice presenters, him in a tuxedo, her, a blondasse in a long and silvery evening dress, under dazzling lights, have two choirs that tune the national anthem. This is how "a show where no one loses" begins, as the two presenters euphoricly incite, "a show where you are us and we are you". The climate is that of the variety of Saturday night television, or if you want a mega-karaoke with the choruses that incite with the successes of Mina, Battisti, Eros Ramazzotti, Renato Zero and the public with them...

It is not the first time that Lorenzo Gleijeses meets Eugenio Barba, the founder and director of the legendary Odin Teatret, an international group and master who have marked the history of theatre in the last half century. But this time the meeting gave rise to an exciting show outside the choir that is also the first direction of Barba "outside" the Odin, that is, not with actors from his company. The show is called Una giornata qualunque by the dancer Gregorio Samsa and is currently shooting, after a stop in Milan at the Teatro dell'Arte-Triennale in Milan...

"Who am I?", "Who am I?", the actors of the Great Jones Repertory Company, an American and multi-ethnic ensemble, take turns asking themselves. And that "I" that gradually emerges from the answers of Perry Yung, Zishan Ugurlu, Maura Nguyen Donahue, John Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Eugene il Poogene, Heather Paauwe, Richard Ebihara, Valois Mickens, some Vietnamese, some South American, some Russian by origin, is rich, complex, crossed by many stories, many worlds, many horizons and landscapes. It is...

In the panorama of the great theatre festivals, this one of the Venice Biennale, running until August 5th, seems to be still one of those who want to look for, discuss, get passionate, with a director, Antonio Latella, so the research in new territories is a necessity and not just an opportunity to show. This year the theme that links the shows, then, is very interesting: "dramaturgies". and it is now accepted by all that under this name there is no longer only the text, but a plurality of languages and scripts is articulated scenic...

Tonight opens with the usual preview - at the Academy of Spain the Milanese duo of artists and researchers Invernomuto and the producer and DJ Hugo Sanchez - Short Theatre 2019 that until 14 fires its fireworks in various spaces of the capital. And this year the fires are many, because the Roman theater festival has continued to grow over the years and his gaze on the Italian contemporary scene has continued to broaden the political horizons (Short has a vocation to question languages, ideas, social forms...

The Roman festival "Short Theatre", immediately after the summer, is also a sign that the theater season is starting again, and brings to mind some reflections. Let's start from Short Theatre. Born in 2006 as an independent festival, directed and realized in Rome by the cultural association AREA06, with the co-direction of Fabrizio Arcuri and Francesca Corona, Short has become in little more than a decade a theatrical appointment with a precise connotation and therefore also a precise relief (even...

TREISTE - After the debate organized by the Circolo della Cultura e delle Arti di Trieste at the end of January entitled La critica teatrale e musicale al tempo dei social network e del web 2.0: dalla stampa a..., last week we returned to talk about theatrical criticism from the microphones of a private television station in Trieste. Umberto Bosazzi, journalist of Telequattro invited Erica Culiat, theatre critic for Messaggero Veneto and Musical! and author of a page fabcebook, Non cancelliamo la critica teatrale, to resume the rows of the debate...

The therapeutic aspects of theatre have been demonstrated throughout history. The concept of catharsis was introduced by Aristotle to express the peculiar effect that the Greek drama had on its audience. The term catharsis derives from the Greek katharsis, derives from kathairein, "to purify": the liberation of the individual from a contamination that damages or corrupts the nature of man. He states: "Tragedy, therefore, is a mimesis of a serious and accomplished action in itself, with a certain...