Issues of appropriation, adaptation, storytelling on the contemporary British scene
11/03/2021, ore 16
Innovative practices of adaptation, appropriation or storytelling are increasingly frequent on European scenes and are the visible signs of a need to renegotiate the
relationship between author, performer and viewer. The contemporary British scene, traditionally characterized by the dominance of the playwright, offers a particularly useful field of study for reflecting on the transformation taking place in conceiving the notion of text and textuality of the performance. The speech is articulated around the experience of Forced Entertainment, forms of autoteatro and the dramaturgy of Tim Crouch and Martin Crimp, with the intention of asking what becomes of the text and what it means today to write for the stage.
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Marta Marchetti is a researcher in Performing Arts at the Department of Modern Letters and Cultures of Sapienza. His research focuses on the history of European theater from modern times to contemporaneity, on the analysis of the live performance and on the processes of novelization of the theater. He has written on C. Bene, L. Visconti, A. Magnani, L. Ronconi, J. Copeau, G. Scabia, C. Quartucci, A. Camus, P. Pitagora. Among his most recent publications Guido Salvini and the dream of a stable theater in post-war Rome (Scalpendi, 2021), Direction and novel. A historiographical hypothesis to the test of the facts, ("MJ" 2020); All the scenes from Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll. The cultural front of the cold war in the European theater (“SigMa” 2020); Pamela, Carlo Goldoni and the writing of the novel on stage (“Italian Studies and Texts”, 2020). Since 2018 she has been in charge of courses at the Institut des Études Théâtrales at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Andrea Peghinelli is associate professor of English literature at the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of the La Sapienza University of Rome. His research field is British theater and he has published monographs and articles on Early Modern theater, Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Burlesque, 2012), 19th century theater and contemporary British dramaturgy (Aspects of contemporary British dramaturgy, 2012). which he translated numerous texts to be then staged. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of London Royal Holloway in 2014. His studies currently focus on Shakespearean appropriations and on critical and theoretical issues of contemporary British dramaturgy.