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Alessandro Baricco – un dramaturg contemporan
Alessandro Baricco – A Contemporary Playwrigh

Author(s): Irina Dabija
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Editura ARTES
Keywords: Alessandro Baricco; Italian litterature

Summary/Abstract: Alessandro Baricco is an Italian contemporary writer with a very interesting work due to its diversity, its wide range of styles and types of creation approached. One of its most appreciated and reputed works in Italy and worldwide is Novecento, a play that was staged more than 200 times in Italy, played by Eugenio Allegri and directed by Gabriele Vacis in 1994, played by Arnoldo Foà in a new 2003 script which inspired the film La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano directed by Giuseppe Tornatore in 1998. The main character’s uniqueness of destiny and life, as well as the approach of an easy and often poetic style, contributed to its success for the theatre audience and the reader of this one act monologue.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 175 - 178
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English
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