Teatro e scienza
Teatro e scienza
Andrea Bisicchia
From Aeschylus’ “Prometheus in Chains” to Ariosto’s “Necromancer”, from Giordano Bruno’s “The Candlestick” to Brecht’s “Life of Galileo” (and beyond), the science of each era profoundly influenced the language of theatre, providing it with the raw material for true masterpieces. Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of theatre history, Andrea Bisicchia thus builds a fascinating cross-cutting path that allows us to discover a dimension that has been completely neglected until now and to understand even better what the deepest sources of inspiration for timeless masterpieces were. For this reason, “Theatre and Science” constitutes a crucial turning point in theatre historiography and will undoubtedly pave the way for a new world of research and investigation.
Available
2006
978-88-6008-030-1
Study
UTET Università
Critic of the performing arts and a specialist in theatre organisation, he his a professor at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Parma. Curator of the five volumes of “Tutto il teatro”, by August Strindberg, he is the author of “Il teatro e il sacro” (1998), “Testori e il teatro del corpo” (2001), and “Invito alla lettura di Dario Fo” (2003).