Fantasio Piccoli
Fantasio Piccoli | |
|---|---|
 Italian theatre director | |
| Born | 24 March 1917 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 27 October 1981 (aged 64) Milan, Italy |
| Occupation | theatre director |
Fantasio Piccoli (24 March 1917 – 27 October 1981) was an Italian 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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Guido Davico Bonino (28 October 1981). "Morto il regista Fantasio Piccoli inventò teatro con un carrozzone". La Stampa (254). p. 15.
- ^ Jump up to: a b 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.
- 1917 births
- 1981 deaths
- Theatre people from Milan
- Italian theatre directors