Eugenio Barba
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Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located in Holstebro, Denmark.
Biography
Barba was born in
In 1963 he traveled to India where he had his first encounter with Kathakali. He wrote an essay on the form which was published in Italy, France, the U. S. and Denmark. His first book, In Search of a Lost Theatre, was published in Italy and Hungary in 1965.
When Barba returned to Oslo in 1964, he wanted to become a professional theatre director, but as a foreigner he faced opposition. He and Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe gathered a group of people who had not passed their admission test to Oslo's State Theatre School and created the Odin Teatret on 1 October 1964.[2] The group trained and rehearsed in an air raid shelter. Their first production, Ornitofilene, by Bjørneboe, was performed in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. They were subsequently offered an old farm and a small sum of money by the Danish municipality of Holstebro, which became their base.
Over forty-two years, Barba has directed sixty-five productions for the Odin Teatret and the Theatrum Mundi Ensemble. Some of the more recent productions are Salt (2002), Great Cities Under the Moon (2003), Andersen's Dream (2005), Ur-Hamlet (2006) and Don Giovanni all'Inferno (2006) in collaboration with Ensemble Midtvest.[3]
In 1979 Barba founded the
References
- ^ "Artist portrait: Eugenio Barba". Culturebase.net, the. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ Barba, Eugenio. "Theater Anthropology". Odin Teatret: Nordisk Laboratorium. Archived from the original on 30 October 2008. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
- ^ "Eugenio Barba". Odin Teatret: Nordisk Laboratorium. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- Eugenio Barba, Jane Turner, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-27327-5