1) History of actor and actress from XIX century up to
now.
2) Contemporary drama in Europe.
3) The shaping of the female audience and theatrical
reception.
4) Biographies of actors
5) The "new" History of theatre.
6) Cross dressing.
7) Stage Photography.
8) "Opera dei pupi".
1) Theoretical and methodological issues in studies on the
actor/actress and acting. Introduction and use of gender as a
category. Sources and archives. Exemples: XIX and early XX century
actresses, present day actors. How acting and the work of the
actor is changing in our time, so characterised by neuroscience,
technology and globalisation.
2) Focus on contemporary dramaturgy in Europe. Beyond the
"postdramatic": analysis of the significant texts, starting from
Italy, of the Scandinavian countries and France.
3) The shaping of the bourgeois public sphere and of the male
and female theatrical audiences: case studies from XIX century
emancipationism to post-68 new feminism. The theater artist's
relationship to the male and female spectator: present day audience
experiences.
4) The artistic biography of contemporay actors in
Italy.
5) The "new" History of theatre. Figure and work of Claudio
Meldolesi. Leading journals.
6) About actresses starring male characters: are Sarah
Bernhardt's ideas on them still useful or the changes in society
and in sexuality require new thoughts and new methods of analysis?
Is it possible to talk on actresses en travesti? By studying
the voice it gets possibile to discuss again that
question.
7) Launch of a research project on stage photography in Italy
since the Sixties. Selection of photographers deserving further
inquiry. Use of photographic sources in the History of theatre.
8) "Opera dei pupi".
