Piccolo Teatro (Milan)

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The Piccolo Teatro di Milano (translation: "Little Theatre of the City of Milan") is a theatre in

Sforza Castle and the Piazza del Duomo; Teatro Studio, which was originally intended to be the theater's rehearsal hall; and Teatro Strehler, which opened in 1998 with a seating capacity of 974.[4] Its annual programme consists of approximately thirty performances. In addition, the venue hosts cultural events, from festivals and films, to concerts, conferences, and conventions,[5] as well as supporting the Paolo Grassi Drama School.[6]

History

Piccolo Teatro was founded by theatre impresario

Eugene O' Neill, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, Molière, Georg Büchner and Peter Weiss.[2]

In the 1960s, the Piccolo Teatro was relocated to

Il servitore di due padroni.[2]

The theatre's archives are currently maintained by the Archivio Multimediale del Piccolo Teatro di Milano (AMPT).[9] On the occasion of the theatre's 60th anniversary in 2007, the President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano granted the "Ente Autonomo Piccolo Teatro di Milano-Teatro d'Europa" patronage for the entire duration of his seven-year presidential term. As of 2012, it is under the direction of Sergio Escobar, along with artistic director Luca Ronconi.

Seasons

In its first decade, performances included:[10]

  • 1947: The Lower Depths (Gorky), The Nights of Rage (Salacrou), The prodigious Magician (Calderon), Arlecchino, the Servant of Two Masters (Goldoni), The Mountain Giants (Pirandello), The Storm (Ostrovsky)
  • 1948: Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), Richard II (Shakespeare), The Seagull (Chekov), The Skin of Our Teeth (Wilder)
  • 1949: The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), People in Their Time (Bontempelli), Little Eyolf (Ibsen)
  • 1950: The Women of Paris (Becque), Richard II (Shakespeare), The Just (Camus), Alcestis (Savinio), Summer and Smoke (Williams)
  • 1951: A Doll's House (Ibsen), Fool's Gold (Giovaninetti), Never Swear by Anything (De Musset), Disaster at the North Depot (Betti), The Army Lover (Molière), The Flying Doctor (Goldoni), Hoppla, Such is Life (Toller)
  • 1952: Macbeth (Shakespeare), Emma (Zardi), Walking on Water (Vergani), Elizabeth of England (Bruckner), The Government Inspector (Gogol)
  • 1953: The Mechanism (Sartre), The Worst Sacrilege (Pirandello), Lulu (Bertolazzi), A Clinical Case (Buzzati), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), Six Days (D'Errico)
  • 1954: The Crow (Gozzi), Triple Bill (Pirandello), The Mad Woman of Chaillot (Giraudoux), The Masquerade (Moravia), The Ideal Wife (Praga), The Villeggiatura Trilogy (Goldoni)
  • 1955: The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov),The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca),The Measures Taken (Brecht),Three Quarters of the Moon (Squarzina), Our Milan (Bertolazzi)
  • 1956: The Threepenny Opera (Brecht), From Yours to Mine (Verga), The Jacobins (Zardi), Coriolanus (Shakespeare)

Literature

Giorgio Guazzotti, Teoria e realtà del Piccolo Teatro di Milano ("Myth and Reality of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan"), Einaudi, Turin, 1965. (A revised and expanded edition was published in 1986).

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7566-8334-4
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5
    . Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  3. ISBN 978-90-420-0762-8
    . Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  4. ISBN 978-1-904978-09-1
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  5. ISBN 978-88-85246-62-1
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-1-57958-390-3
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  7. ISBN 978-0-87413-854-2
    . Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-1-74059-759-3
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  9. ISBN 978-0-521-19464-8
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  10. ISBN 978-0-521-30768-0
    . Retrieved 11 March 2012.

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