How do Italian playwrights represent migrants on the stage? How can theatre promote a better understanding of cultural differences and similarities? Is there room for foreigners on the stage in Italy?
In this presentation, Dr Maria Cristina Mauceri will answer these questions, by talking about migrants in contemporary Italian theatre. She will discuss some interesting works that show how theatre can play an important role in exploring diversity and in promoting a better understanding between Italians and foreigners.
She will also discuss works by the Teatro delle Albe, which were developed and performed by Italian and Senegalese in collaboration. Then Dr Mauceri will consider a play by Gianni Clementi, that focuses on the difficult relationship between Italians and migrants and will conclude by presenting a comic play by Felicité Mbezelé, a migrant playwright and performer from Cameroon who lives and works in Rome.
Maria Cristina Mauceri, Cassamarca Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Sydney until June 2015, is now Honorary Associate in the same Department. Her research interests include transnational literature in Italy and the representation of alterity in contemporary Italian literature. She published several essays and collaborated to Nuovo Planetario Italiano. Geografia e antologia della letteratura della migrazione in Italia e in Europa (ed. by A. Gnisci, 2006). In 2007 she published Nuovo Immaginario Italiano. Italiani e stranieri a confronto nella letteratura italiana contemporanea, Roma, Sinnos, (with M. Grazia Negro – Istanbul University) and in 2015 Nuovo Scenario Italiano. Stranieri e italiani nel teatro italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Ensemble (with Marta Niccolai – University College London).
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