Metamorfosi della rappresentazione. Shakespeare, Verdi e le marionette: storie di rimandi e tradimenti

An essay that spans centuries of theatre in search of its most vital and ever-changing substance. An “alchemical” game that weaves together high culture and popular tradition, dramaturgy and orality, melodrama and puppetry.
At its core is theatre’s ability to reinvent stories even before they become “classics,” in a tight dialogue of echoes, rewritings, and fruitful betrayals: the guiding thread is the distorting lens of marionettes. And so, Shakespeare without Shakespeare. Verdi without Verdi. Yet far more Shakespeare than much of what passes for Shakespeare. Far more Verdi than much of what passes for Verdi.
For puppet theatre is a “theatrical” theatre that shuns the mimetic and embraces excess, the grotesque, and wonder; it does not fear emphasis or distortion. It is a theatre capable of imprinting itself on memory not through the illusion of reality, but through the force of evocation—revealing itself as an extraordinary testament to theatre’s inexhaustible ability to reinvent itself through enchantment.