Il drammaturgo norvegese Henrik Johan Ibsen morĂŹ a Oslo esattamente 113 anni fa    (23 maggio 1906) Ho da poco assistito al Piccolo Teatro Grassi di Milano al dramma del 1982 âIl costruttore Solnessâ capolavoro non molto rappresentato della maturitĂ di Ibsen. Narra la storia di un uomo potente, un gran costruttore di case,… Read More đ âIl costruttore Solnessâ đ
Scritto da Michail Bulgakov nel 1925, âCuore di caneâ fu censurato in Russia fino al 1987, mentre in Italia fu pubblicato a metĂ degli anni Sessanta, assieme allâaltro capolavoro dello stesso autore, âIl Maestro e Margheritaâ. Un luminare della medicina il Professor PreobraĆŸĂ©nskij sta cercando una terapia per il ringiovanimento delle persone, che gli dia… Read More A teatro: “Cuore di cane” đ
“La signorina Else”        âĄïž     La donna come oggetto sessuale Tratto da una novella di Arthur Schnitzler pubblicata nel 1924, âLa signorina Elseâ Ăš una spietata radiografia della societĂ – forse non solo di quellâepoca â caratterizzata da superficialitĂ mondana e cupo cinismo, dove una… Read More A teatro: “La signorina Else” đ
The Globe Theatre, built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, was a three-storey, open-air amphitheatre able to house up to 3,000 spectators. The theatre-goers included the âGroundlingsâ (the common people who watched the play standing in the pit and paid only 1 penny – in the summer were nicknamed âStinkardsâ for obvious reasons),… Read More The Original Globe Theatre Burns Down (29th June 1613)
Harold Chasen is a 20-year-old boy, solitary and friendless by choice, who drives a hearse and is obsessed with death: he ties to attract his motherâs attention staging his own fake suicides. The exasperated woman, a wealthy socialite who is controlling, snobbish and apparently incapable of affection. decides to send him to a psychiatrist and… Read More Harold & Maude: plot
Last Sunday I went to the Theatre (Piccolo Teatro Grassi), in Milan, to see âFine pena: oraâ, a play based on the exchange of letters between a lifer, Salvatore, and Elvio Fassone, the judge who condemned him at the end of a maxi trial against the Catania mafia held in Turin in the mid-eighties. The… Read More A play: “Fine pena: ora”
âO, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.â â William Shakespeare, Othello (Act 3, Scene 3) Iago is warning Othello not to be a jealous man because jealousy (the green-eyed monster) will interfere with his mind (his imagination is what feeds it)… Read More Jealousy
Yesterday I went to the theatre (Piccolo Teatro Grassi â Milan) to watch â Le serveâ (âThe Maidsâ) a play by Jean Genet, the renowned French dramatist. The maids are two sisters, Claire and Solange, who live an obsessive relationship of love and hatred with their beautiful mistress (Madame). Every night, when the lady… Read More Le serve
 NON TI PAGO I spent my Sunday afternoon at the theatre (Piccolo Teatro Strehler â Milano) to see âNon ti pagoâ (I wonât pay) , an Italian play written by author Eduardo De Filippo in 1940. The dramatist himself defined it as “a very comic comedy which in my opinion is the most tragic that… Read More Play: I Won’t Pay!
âLouise and RenĂ©eâ Yesterday I went to Piccolo Teatro Grassi  in Milan  to see the play  âLouise e RenĂ©eâ. It is a free adaptation  from âMemoirs of two young bridesâ , the only epistolary novel by the French writer HonorĂ© de Balzac, author of âThe Human Comedyâ The story is about two… Read More A play: âLouise and RenĂ©eâ
