Abstract
The contribution engages in an explicit dialogue with Fausto Colombo's important 1998 study La cultura sottile (The Subtle Culture), playing with (and varying) the ‘bestiary’ proposed in the volume in order to clarify the strategies of cultural production in Italy by applying them to the sphere of the theatre, considered in particular at the moment of its affirmation as a ‘cultural industry’ with the foundation of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. The work focuses in particular on Paolo Grassi's strategy, with its dual utopian and pragmatic soul, which made the ideology of theatre as a public service practicable in terms of industrial organisation.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | The theater industry in Italy: crickets, crows, mice and... owls in the founding of the Piccolo, Milan Theater |
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| Lingua originale | Italian |
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | «… E quanto più sapore possibile». Comunicazione, media, industria culturale. Studi in onore di Fausto Colombo |
| Editore | Vita e Pensiero, Milano |
| Pagine | 35-43 |
| Numero di pagine | 9 |
| ISBN (stampa) | 978-88-343-5968-6 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2025 |
Keywords
- Italian Theatre
- Paolo Grassi
- XXth century theatre
- organizzazione teatrale
- teatro XX secolo
- teatro in Italia
- theatre and performance studies
- theatre organization