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EVENTS Conferences and Seminars December 2025 Institute of Theatre and Opera

Theatre, Democracy and Pandemics

Santuzza Calì,

The meeting aims to investigate the role of theatre as the cultural legacy of democracy, starting with examples of contemporary staging of dramat-ic texts that focus on the great pandemics and epidemics of history. A theoretical approach to the theme will be followed by the testimonies of scholars and artists, looking at the most important contemporary plays dedicated to these themes, including Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo, staged by Giorgio Strehler in the 1960s, and The Plague by Albert Camus, staged by Claudio Longhi for the Teatro Stabile in Turin and by Serena Sinigaglia for the Stabile in Bolzano in the 2000s.

Program

9:30
plus

Maria Ida Biggi

Introduction

Piermario Vescovo

La peste, il teatro

Oliviero Ponte di Pino

A teatro oltre la peste

Fabrizio Panozzo

Popolo che subisce / popolo che decide

COFFEE BREAK

Matteo Paoletti

Un inaspettato salvavita? Legislazione d’emergenza e finanziamento pubblico

Alessandra Carbonaro

Lavoro e previdenza nello spettacolo dal vivo: quali scenari nel contesto post pandemico

Mimma Gallina

Pandemia e sistema teatrale: un’occasione mancata?

LUNCH BREAK

14:30
plus

Paola Bigatto

Didattica teatrale e pandemia: “l’eredità della corona”

Serena Sinigaglia

“La peste” di Camus, una specie di speranza

Projections of some framents from the play produced by da TSV – Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Teatro Stabile di Bolzano e Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Teatro Carcano, 2021/2022 season

COFFEE BREAK

Staged reading 16:30
plus

Paola Bigatto e Massimiliano Speziani

Parole per la peste. Letture in tempo di pandemia

 

 

Santuzza Calì,

Institute of Theatre and Opera

DIRECTRESS
Maria Ida Biggi