"Piccolo Teatro" [1] ( Piccolo Teatro di Milano ) - drama theater in Milan . One of the institutions bearing the honorary title of Theater of Europe .
| Piccolo Theater | |
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| Founded | 1947 |
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| Location | Milan |
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| Artistic director | Luca Ronconi |
| Website | piccoloteatro.org |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Significant productions
- 3 notes
- 4 References
History
Created by Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi in 1947. It opened with the play “ At the Bottom ” by M. Gorky on May 14, 1947. In the same year, the second production was released, which for many years became the hallmark of the theater - “The Servant of Two Masters ” by K. Goldoni. The artistic and ideological director of the theater was J. Strehler. In 1968-1972, he worked with another troupe, but returned to the theater.
Significant Performances
- “Country Trilogy”, “Chioggian Quarrels”, “Campiello” by K. Goldoni
- The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard by A. Chekhov
- Richard II, Macbeth , Julius Caesar, The Tempest, King Lear by W. Shakespeare
- “Giants of the Mountain”, “Today We Improvise” and “Six Characters in Search of the Author” by L. Pirandello
- The Death of Danton by G. Buchner
- Happy Days by S. Becket
- “ Three-Penny Opera ”, “Schweik in the Second World War” , “ Life of Galileo ” and “ Good Man from Sichuan ” by B. Brecht
- “Slave Island” Marivo
- “Visit of the old lady” F. Durrenmatt
Notes
- ↑ "Piccolo-Theater" / A. V. Shestakova // Peru - Semitrailer. - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2014. - P. 195. - ( Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 26). - ISBN 978-5-85270-363-7 .