Scene, Testi, Archivi. Editoriale di Engramma 205

Engramma 205 brings together a miscellany of contributions that traverse the theatre in its various alterations, continuing a line of research and interest that finds ample representation in the Scientific committee and Editorial board of the journal. In the title, ‘Scenes’ ‘Texts’ ‘Archives’ were the key words most capable of catalysing the themes proposed in the papers here collected, revealing a variety of styles, worldviews and historical periods. In Didascalie e apparizioni Shaw, Pirandello, Mann Piermario Vescovo explores the exponential growth of the use of captions in European drama between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, starting from IbsenPiermario Vescovo , in the relationship between George Bernard Shaw and Luigi Pirandello. The essay of Michele Di Bello La tragedia del Cinquecento come “specchio de’ Principi” la virtù, il principe e il tiranno nella Canace di Giovanni Falugi deals with a tragedy written in the first half of the 16th century, the little-known Canace by Giovanni Falugi (1529 ca.), dedicated to Ippolito de’ Medici on the occasion of his election as cardinal.The article L’immaginario del gesto isterico nella Francia di fine Ottocento: tra mimo e malattia by Silvia De Min concerns the exhibiting of the body affected by hysteria, starting from Paul Margueritte’s pantomime Pierrot assassin de sa femme (1882). With Persona, “Per la prima volta e ultima volta”. Il Capodanno del 1994 al Cocoricò con la Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio Filippo Perfetti enters the eccentric atmospheres of Cocoricò, the historic discotheque on the Romagna Riviera, to discover Persona a performance by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio presented on the occasion of New Year’s Eve 1994. In Solve et coagula. Processi di destituzione del corpo nell’archivio del Teatro delle Albe Marco Sciotto investigates the Archive of the Teatro delle Albe company in Ravenna to interpret it as a device, useful to trace interpretative threads of the company’s poetics and thus restore its inexhaustible vitality. This issue of Engramma is also an opportunity to present two recently published volumes: Ermanna Montanari’s (Teatro delle Albe) novel L’abbaglio del tempo (La nave di Teseo 2021), and the volume Leggere il teatro. Dieci testi esemplari (Carocci 2022) edited by Luigi Allegri. In the section Classici in fieri Engramma presents: Regesto degli spettacoli INDA al Teatro greco di Siracusa (1914-2023) edited by Alessandra Pedersoli, the updating of the INDA performance register to this year's theatre season; Da Prometeo all’antropocene: an interview with philosopher Salvatore Natoli, edited by Stefano Piazzese; Sette a Tebe: una dichiarazione necessaria, di amore e di guerra: some testimonies of the protagonist actors of Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes directed by Gabriele Vacis at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza on the occasion of the opening of the LXXVI Cycle of Classics.