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Shakespeare in a Fountain: The First Italian Production of The Tempest Directed by Giorgio Strehler in 1948

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2004

GIAN GIACOMO COLLI
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Abstract

The Italian director Giorgio Strehler (1921–97) staged more plays by Shakespeare than by any other playwright, but only a few of his most recent and successful Shakespearean stagings have received international critical attention. By focusing on one of Strehler's early productions, The Tempest of 1948, this article has a double purpose: to examine the cultural context of a production that was quite anomalous for the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, then in its second season, and to underline how, from the beginning of his career, Strehler developed a crucial attention for a mutable theatre space.

Type
Performance Analysis
Information
Theatre Research International , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , July 2004 , pp. 174 - 185
Copyright
© International Federation for Theatre Research 2004

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