Fantasio Piccoli
Fantasio Piccoli (24 March 1917 – 27 October 1981) was an Italian theatre director.
Fantasio Piccoli | |
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Italian theatre director | |
Born | Milan, Italy | 24 March 1917
Died | 27 October 1981 64) Milan, Italy | (aged
Occupation | theatre director |
Life and career
Born in Milan, the son of the author Valentino, in 1947 Piccoli founded and directed the stage company "Compagnia del Carrozzone" (also known just as "Il Carrozzone"), a company consisting of ten young actors (including Romolo Valli and Adriana Asti) who held stagings in about two hundred cities in three years.[1][2] In 1950 he and most of his company moved to Bolzano, where Piccoli founded the Teatro Stabile, which he directed until 1966;[1][2] in Bolzano, he "put into practice his idea of an anti-realistic theater, founded on the primacy of the poetic language, and on the expressive autonomy of a transfiguring imagination."[1] At the Teatro Stabile he directed seventy four stagings, mainly based on Italian authors.[1]
References
- Guido Davico Bonino (28 October 1981). "Morto il regista Fantasio Piccoli inventò teatro con un carrozzone". La Stampa (254). p. 15.
- AA. VV. (1964). Tuttitalia: enciclopedia dell'Italia antica e moderna. Sansoni. p. 33.
Further reading
- Massimo Bertoldi. Il Teatro Stabile di Bolzano: cinquant'anni di cultura e di spettacoli. Silvana, 2000. ISBN 8882152022.