In collaboration with the University of Padua, the Institute of Theatre\u00a0and Opera is hosting a lecture entitled \u201cEdward Gordon Craig and\u00a0the \u2018Drama for Fools\u2019\u201d, to be given by Professor Didier Plassard.
\nThe lecture will deal with Edward Gordon Craig\u2019s series of puppet\u00a0plays called \u201cDrama for Fools\u201d. Written by the English director and\u00a0playwright during the First World War, this unusually large project\u00a0consisted of a total of 365 playlets. Having been left incomplete, the\u00a0series was recently published in a bilingual book (Edward Gordon\u00a0Craig, Drama for Fools \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des fous, edited by Didier Plassard\u00a0with Marion Ch\u00e9netier-Alev and Marc Duvillier, IIM \/ L\u2019Entretemps,\u00a02012). Illustrated by some beautiful drawings, this masterpiece\u00a0of comedy reveals a previously little-known penchant for humour\u00a0or even farce in the father of contemporary stage direction. Didier\u00a0Plassard is a professor of theatre studies at the Paul Val\u00e9ry University-Montpellier 3. A modern\u00a0and contemporary theatre scholar, he specializes in puppetry and new technologies applied to the contemporary stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65531,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1465],"cini_tax_institutes":[20],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1464],"class_list":["post-65431","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-meetings","cini_tax_institutes-theatre-and-opera","cini_tax_event_locations-island-of-san-giorgio-maggiore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n