Wyjść poza formy. Teatr Carmela Benego
Going beyond Forms: The Theater of Carmelo Bene

Summary/Abstract: Dorota Semenowicz writes on the theater and films of Carmelo Bene (1937-2002). The critic analyzes his plays and their reception against a backdrop of the institutional, ideological, and aesthetic transformations in postwar Italian theater. She describes the various chapters of his work: the anarchic and rebellious theater as a space representing the beginnings of his work, the departure from theater in favor of cinema, the Shakespeare stagings, and the concert plays. The author focuses on his key concept of the “actor machine” – the body of the actor was reduced to a tool for producing sounds. She also describes his notion of phoné, which she defines as the “border between the visible and the audible.”

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