La poetica teatrale di Davide Iodice

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Dissertationes

ISSN: 1723-8226

Pages: 290

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-28279

Abstract: This essay deals with the artistic activity of the Neapolitan director Davide Iodice in the contemporary Italian theatre.

The essay focuses on three main elements of Iodice’s theatre: the stage writing as the base of his theatrical style; the dramaturgy in which verbal and stage text coexist;  his artistic work in poor social contexts.

The reconstruction of Iodice’s works is realized from secondary sources, namely articles, press releases and video clips, and above all from such primary sources as interviews with Iodice himself and access to his rich personal archives containing notes, drawings and director’s notebooks from the early 90s onwards. Thanks to this unique unpublished material, it was possible to follow his creative process from its inception up to the process of ‘stage writing’.

His wide-ranging production is analyzed according to topic, albeit trying to follow a diachronic sequence.

The peculiar works Iodice realized with the homeless, whose lives and memories become ‘stage writing’, are analyzed thanks to his director’s notebooks providing an intimate entry into his talent for deep interpersonal communication and empathy.

The analysis of his more recent work La luna starts from the theatre laboratory conducted by Iodice himself. Given the access to his theatre director suggestions and advice during the training and improvisations of the actors, it was possible to follow the creative process in its making and to deconstruct the work from its genesis.