VolterraTeatro: thirty years of a festival that crosses the contemporary

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https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.1503

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In July 2016 the Tuscany festival VolterraTeatro celebrated its 30th edition, for the 16th time directed by Armando Punzo and its cultural association Carte Blanche. 16th and last: in 2017, in fact, the Director of the Compagnia della Fortezza renounced to participate to the new direction call for bids, denouncing an economic insecurity, that isn’t functional to an ongoing artistic project. The direction was commissioned to Andrea Kaemmerle and the Teatro Guascone. During thirty years Volterra Teatro was directed by four completely different personalities: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Nicolini, Roberto Bacci and Armando Punzo. Knowing a festival from its birth to its last developments it’s useful to understand not only its history but also the cultural background, the artistic trends and the politic ones as well of the historical period. In this article I’m going to give testimony of the VolterraTeatro’s evolution, following a specific thread: the local characterization of this phenomenon and its community dimension, that was, in my opinion, rather predominant.

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Benedetta Pratelli

Benedetta Pratelli è laureata in Lettere Moderne all'Università di Pisa con una tesi in storia contemporanea dal titolo Oltre il soldato l'uomo. Le motivazioni che spingono i soldati in guerra (relatore Alberto Mario Banti). Nel 2017 ha conseguito la laurea magistrale in Storia e Forme delle Arti Visive, dello Spettacolo e dei Nuovi Media con una tesi in Drammaturgia e Spettacolo dedicata al festival VolterraTeatro, VolterraTeatro 1987-2016: storia di un festival e della sua evoluzione (relatrice Anna Barsotti). Attualmente è dottoranda in Storia delle Arti e dello Spettacolo all'Università di Firenze e cultore della materia Storia del Teatro e dello Spettacolo. Fuori dall'ambito accademico collabora con Armunia e con la compagnia teatrale Berardi Casolari.

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2018-12-23

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Pratelli, B. (2018). VolterraTeatro: thirty years of a festival that crosses the contemporary. Mimesis Journal, 7(2), 75–85. https://doi.org/10.4000/mimesis.1503

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