Piazza degli eroi di Thomas Bernhard: l’uomo, il tempo e la storia

Intervista a Roberto Andò

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.2228

Keywords:

Theatre, Thomas Bernhard, Direction, Roberto Andò, Performance

Abstract

 

The script is an interview with Roberto Andò, director and author among the most versatile of the Italian and European scene. In late 2020 Andò directed Heroes' Square (1988) by Thomas Berhard. The show should have been staged at the Mercadante theatre in Naples, of which he is the director, but the restrictions related to the medical emergency prevented its representation some time later. The show was then streamed by Rai 5 in a program that, in an attempt to keep the attention on a world among the most penalized by the pandemic, has made a series of television shows. The result was a of public and critical success, unexpected as hoped, which offered the opportunity to analyze this transcoding, opening a delicate issue on the compromise of the theater with the medium of television. The interview retraces the journey of Thomas Bernhard and his arrival in Heroes' Square that seems destined to create a «case» that goes beyond its representation.

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Author Biography

Annamaria Sapienza, University of Salerno

Annamaria Sapienza is professor of Performing Arts at the University of Salerno. She also teaches History of theatre at the Acting School of the National Theatre of Naples. She is a member of the expert committee of the "Eduardo De Filippo" Foundation and member of the scientific board of the International Research Centre on the actor "Icra Project". She is an associate of the "Prison Theatre" National Coordination, of the EASTAP (European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance) and of the Center Studies of Napolitan, South and European Theatre.  She is co-director of the theatre studies section "Rifrazioni" ("Sinestesieonline") and member of scientific and editorial boards of journals and series including "Mimesis Journal", “Sinestesie”, "Acting Atchives", "Corpo Novecento". She’s mostly in the modern and contemporary theater, Neapolitan theater, social and community theatre.

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Published

2021-06-20

How to Cite

Sapienza, A. (2021). Piazza degli eroi di Thomas Bernhard: l’uomo, il tempo e la storia: Intervista a Roberto Andò. Mimesis Journal, 10(1), 145–155. https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.2228

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2021)

Section

Points of view