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- Includes first-hand interviews with the legendary theatre director Romeo Castelluci
- Provides focused and insightful analysis of Castellucci's and the Societas Raffaello Sanzio key works from the 1980s onwards
- Offers a refreshing alternative perspective to those presented in current scholarship on Castelluci
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book focuses on Romeo Castellucci’s theatrical project, exploring the ethical and aesthetic framework determined by his reflection on the nature of the image. But why does a director whose fundamental artistic tool is the image deny this key conceptual notion? Rooted in his conscious distancing from iconoclasm in the 1980s, Castellucci frequently replaces this notion with the words ‘symbol’, ‘form’ and ‘idea’.
As the first publication on the international market which presents Castellucci’s work from both historical and theoretical perspectives, this book systematically confronts the director’s discourse with other concepts related to his artistic project. Capturing the evolution of his theatre from icon to iconoclasm, word to image and symbol to allegory, the book explores experimental notions of staging alongside an ‘emotional wave’, which serves as an animating principle of Castellucci’s revolutionary theatre.
Keywords
- contemporary theatre
- Italian theatre
- experimental theatre
- theatre company
- Italian avant-garde
- Claudia Castellucci
- Chiara Guidi
- Paolo Guidi
- Teatro Iconoclasta
- Teatro della Super-Icona
- Epopea della plovers
- theatrical manifesto
- interdisciplinary
- iconoclasm
- arts
- essay
- history
- India
- interview
- nation
- performing arts
- register
- sound
- theatre
- theatre and performance studies
- theatre history
- tragedy
Authors and Affiliations
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Teatr Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland
Dorota Semenowicz
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Book Subtitle: From Icon to Iconoclasm, From Word to Image, From Symbol to Allegory
Authors: Dorota Semenowicz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56390-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56965-3Published: 11 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95405-6Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56390-3Published: 09 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 235
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts