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s Arti dello Spettacoloa / Performing Arts Arti dello Spettacolo / Performing Arts &EJUPS Donatella Gavrilovich 6OJWFSTJUZPG3PNFA5PS7FSHBUB Associate Editors Erica Faccioli Donato Santeramo Academy of Fine Arts of Venezia Queen!s University, Kingston (CANADA) Stefania Frezzoti Ol’ga Kupcova National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), Rome State Institute of Art Studies (SIAS), Mosca (RUSSIA) Fabrizio Grifasi Fondazione Romaeuropa, Rome Consulting Editor Vladislav Ivanov Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu State Institute of Art Studies (SIAS), Mosca (RUSSIA) EUR!ORBEM, CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne (FRNCE) Lucie Kempf Delphine Pinasa Université de Lorraine (FRNCE ) Centre National du Costume de Scène et de la Scénographie (CNCS) Claudia Pieralli (FRNCE) University of Florence Dmitrij Rodionov Gabriel Poole A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Teatre Museum (RUSSIA) University of Cassino and Southern Lazio Elena Randi Advisory Board University of Padua Gabriella Elina Imposti Daria Rybakova University of Bologna St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (RUSSIA) Andrei Malaev-Babel Elena Servito Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training (USA) INDA (National Institute of Ancient Drama) Foundation of Syracuse Lorenzo Mango Margaret Shewring University of Naples ‘L!Orientale! University of Warwick (ENGLAND) Mariateresa Pizza Artem Smolin Archive ‘Dario Fo-Franca Rame! St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanica Roger Salas and Optics (RUSSIA) ‘El Pais!, Madrid (SPAIN) Leila Zammar Riku Roihankorpi Loyola University of Chicago JFRC University of Tampere (FINLAND) Fabio Massimo Zanzoto University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata! Editorial Board Leoneta Bentivoglio Editorial Assistants ‘La Repubblica!, Rome Elisa Anzelloti, University of Viterbo “La Tuscia” Michaela Böhmig Annamaria Corea, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza! Member of the International Dance Council CID - UNESCO Anna Isaeva, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle (FRNCE ) Manuela Canali Irina Marchesini, University of Bologna National Academy of Dance, Rome Alice Pieroni, University of Florence Silvia Carandini Marianna Zannoni, University of Venice University of Rome ‘La Sapienza! Alexander Chepurov Staf Russian State Institute of Performing Arts Marco Argentina, University of Padua, Giulia Cara, University of Marieta Chikhladze Rome ‘Tor Vergata#, Gioia Cecchi, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza#, Tbilisi State University (GEORGIA) Marco Damigella, University of Roma Tre, Davide Di Bella, Univer- Enrica Dal Zio sity of Florence, Alessandro Maria Egito, University of Rome ‘Tor ‘Michael Chekhov Association MICHA!, New York (USA) Vergata#, Valeria Gaveglia, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata#, Silvia Lo- Dominique Dolmieu reti, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata#, Manuel Onorati, University of Maison d!Europe et d!Orient - Eurodram (FRNCE ) Rome ‘Tor Vergata#, Valeria Paraninf, University of Rome ‘Tor Verga- ta#, Ilaria Recchi, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata#, Andrea Vanacore, University of Roma Tre TFKPVSOBMFWBMVBUFTTVCNJTTJPOTUISPVHIBEPVCMFCMJOESFGFSFFTZTUFN sa Art dello Spetacolo / Performing Arts Perspectives on Contemporary Teatre in Canada I edited by Donato Santeramo and Craig Walker 1BUSPDJOJP Editorial 6OJWFSTJUËEFHMJ4UVEJ Donatella Gavrilovich 5 EJ3PNBi5PS7FSHBUBw Preface Donato Santeramo and Craig Walker 4 Guthrie, the Stratford Festival and Canadian Teatre Liza Gifen 10 Of Research and Dramaturgs: Nightswimming Teatre’s ‘Pure Research’ Project Davide Ciofrese 19 1SPHFUUPHSBGJDP Nuovi dispositivi scenici per vecchie drammaturgie: gli Amleto di Robert Lepage (JPJB$FDDIJ Vincenzo Sansone 28 Jordi Mand. A short biography 4FHSFUFSJBFVGGJDJPTUBNQB Allison Townsend 37 TUBfBTQB!HNBJMDPN Interview with Jordi Mand 5JQPHSBfB Donato Santeramo 38 6OJWFSTJUBMJB Brontë: Te World Without 7JBEJ1BTTP-PNCBSEP Jordi Mand 43 3PNB A short autobiography "35*%&--041&55"$0-0 Daniele Bartolini 88 1&3'03.*/("354 Interview with Daniele Bartolini "OOP7]/VNFSP] Cindy Marcolina 92 "UUSJCVUJPO*OUFSOBUJPOBM Te Curious Voyage %JSFUUPSF3FTQPOTBCJMF Daniele Bartolini 99 %POBUFMMB(BWSJMPWJDI Daniel David Moses. A short biography Donato Santeramo and Craig Walker 113 &EJUPSF Interview with Daniel David Moses 6/*7&34*5"-*" Craig Walker 114 7JBEJ1BTTPMPNCBSEP 3PNB Still September (A short play) 5FM Daniel David Moses 116 1*$' Interview with Gaston Tremblay FNBJMFEJUPSJB!VOJWFSTJUBMJBTSMJU Donato Santeramo 119 XXXVOJQBTTJU Manifesto Moi j’viens du Nord’stie 126 *44/ Aimé le mal-aimé. Dialogue au seuil de l’éternité 3FHJTUSB[JPOFUSJCVOBMF Gaston Tremblay 128 HFOOBJPDPOO Interview with Maureen LaBonté, dramatuge: Contes Urbains $PWFS%BOJFM%BWJE.PTFT Songs of Donato Santeramo 133 Love and Medicine; QIPUPCZ5JN'PSU Projet manifeste – volet Contes urbains – de la Place des Arts du Grand Sudbury 137 #BDLDPWFS$POUFT6SCBJOT FOCUS_______________________________________________________________ In memoriam Roberto Tessari Donato Santeramo and Craig Walker 139 Per Roberto: storie di fratelli Paolo Puppa 141 , 2015; Photographer: David Hou copyright the Stratford Festival, Courtesy of the Stratford Festival Archives Festival of the Stratford Courtesy Festival, copyright the Stratford Hou David , 2015; Photographer: e Last Wife e Last T Maeve Beaty as Katherine Beaty in Maeve Editorial Donatella Gavrilovich Il quinto numero di “Arti dello Spetacolo / Perfor- Te ffh issue of Arti dello Spetacolo / Performing Arts, ming Arts”, Perspectives on Contemporary Teatre in entitled “Perspectives on Contemporary Teatre in Canada I, presenta un contenuto originale rispeto Canada I”, presents an original approach compared to ai numeri precedenti della rivista. I due curatori, Do- the previous issues of the journal. Te two guest editors, nato Santeramo e Craig Walker, ci accompagnano Donato Santeramo and Craig Walker, accompany us, con entusiasmo alla scoperta delle diverse realtà che enthusiastically, to discover the diferent realities that compongono quel meraviglioso caleidoscopio di make up that wonderful kaleidoscope of experiences, esperienze, ancora così poco note, del teatro in Ca- still so litle known, of theatre practice in Canada. In this nada. Gli elaborati propriamente accademici sono frst volume, the strictly academic papers have been re- stati ridoti al minimo nel tentativo di far aforare duced to a minimum in an atempt to bring out, through mediante schede biografche, interviste, proclami, the publication of interviews, proclamations, projects, progeti, manifesti e drammi, alcuni dei quali ine- manifestos and plays, a record of some contemporary diti, la storia dei “protagonisti” della East Cost: dai “protagonists” of English, Francophone and Indigenous drammaturghi di lingua inglese, francese e indigena theatre practitioners and companies. Tis ensemble alle compagnie teatrali, impegnate in diverse forme represents diferent forms of research and experimen- di ricerca e sperimentazione dagli anni Setanta alla tation from the early 1970s to today, including those contemporaneità, fno a quelle formate da profes- sionisti per gli spetacoli messi in scena presso il pre- staged at the prestigious Stratford Festival. stigioso Stratford Festival. L#esplorazione sul teatro in Te exploration of the theatre in Canada, generously Canada, generosamente condota dai due curatori, conducted by the two editors, will not end with this non si conclude con la presente pubblicazione. Stia- number. We are already planning the next issue that mo già progetando un prossimo numero che pre- will present an overview of more dramaturgical, perfor- senti una panoramica sulle forme drammaturgiche, mance and theatrical stagings, especially from Quebec perfomative e di messinscena teatrale del Quebec e la West Cost. and the West Coast. Per quanto riguarda il FOCUS che, di solito, pre- As for the journal’s FOCUS section, where contents senta contenuti non necessariamente collegati con il usually are not necessarily connected with the maters tema del numero, esso è dedicato a Roberto Tessari, discussed in the issue, it is dedicated to Roberto Tessari, studioso insegne di storia del teatro, recentemente a recently deceased renowned scholar of theatre history scomparso. and friend of many. *44/ 6 an theatre; still others document those Canadian practitioners who are expanding the very nature of what theatre can do, those who are “pushing the his issue and the next issue of “Arti dello envelope,” so to speak. Spetacolo / Performing Arts” is dedicated Of the well-established entities, perhaps none is to theatre in Canada. We are honoured to more central nor more authoritative within Cana- Tserve as the guest editors of these two special is- dian theatre as a whole than the Stratford Festival sues. In choosing the materials for these issues, we of Canada. First, the Festival’s paramount mandate had two readerships in mind. Our frst consider- is to present the works of William Shakespeare, the ation was the non-Canadian reader for whom we writer who is most central to the canon of English have endeavoured to provide a glimpse of the cur- literature, even literature as a whole. Second, since rent state of Canadian theatre. We decided that the it opened in 1953, the Festival has been probably best way to achieve this was not just to present a the most infuential single venue in the advance of set of relatively uniform academic articles, but also professionalism in Canadian theatre as a whole. As to provide space for the practitioners themselves Liza Gifen, Director of Archives at the Stratford to be heard, in interviews and in examples