Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy (eBook)
XVI, 265 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-349-95096-6 (ISBN)
This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects of specifically women's experience, be it their spirituality, their future lives as wives and mothers, their present lives as workers or students, or their relationships with friends, sisters and mothers. Most often performed in a Catholic environment, they were meant to both entertain and educate, reflecting the specific issues that both performers and spectators had to confront in the years between the end of the war and the beginning of the economic miracle.
Drawing on material never before researched, Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy: A Stage of Their Own recovers the life and works of forgotten women playwrights while also discussing the role models that educational theatre offered to the young Italian women coming of age in the post-war years.
Daniela Cavallaro is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches courses in Italian language, fiction, and drama. She has published in the fields of Italian fiction, film and theatre; women's revision of the classics; and South Pacific literature. Her 2011 book Italian Women's Theatre 1930-1960: An Anthology of Plays recovered the life and works of four Italian women playwrights.
This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects of specifically women's experience, be it their spirituality, their future lives as wives and mothers, their present lives as workers or students, or their relationships with friends, sisters and mothers. Most often performed in a Catholic environment, they were meant to both entertain and educate, reflecting the specific issues that both performers and spectators had to confront in the years between the end of the war and the beginning of the economic miracle.Drawing on material never before researched, Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy: A Stage of Their Own recovers the life and works of forgotten women playwrights while also discussing the role models that educational theatre offered to the young Italian women coming of age in the post-war years.
Daniela Cavallaro is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches courses in Italian language, fiction, and drama. She has published in the fields of Italian fiction, film and theatre; women’s revision of the classics; and South Pacific literature. Her 2011 book Italian Women’s Theatre 1930-1960: An Anthology of Plays recovered the life and works of four Italian women playwrights.
Introduction. Theatre is a serious matter.- Chapter 1. Educational theatre for women.- Chapter 2. Teatro delle giovani - editors, genres, development.- Chapter 3. Teatro delle giovani - the plays.- Chapter 4. Salesian plays not published in Teatro delle giovani.- Chapter 5. Scene femminili - the new magazine for all-women theatre.- Chapter 6. Scene femminili - the plays.- Chapter 7. Educational plays from other magazines or publishers.- Chapter 8. The legacy of all-women educational theatre.- Appendix. Biographical notes on educational theatre women playwrights (1940-1970).- Works cited.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XVI, 265 p. 21 illus., 3 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Schlagworte | Amateur theatre groups • Italian theatre • Religion and Society • religious theatre • Salesian theatre • Scene femminili • social issues • Teatro delle giovani • Theatre magazines • Women playwrights • women's theatre |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-95096-3 / 1349950963 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-95096-6 / 9781349950966 |
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