The screenplay “Eleonora Duse. The Great Actress” by Nino Bolla

Eleonora Duse’s signs between fiction, document, history and imago

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i8.11504
Keywords: Eleonora Duse, Nino Bolla, performing arts documentation, screenplay

Abstract

The article’s principal topic is the screenplay by Nino Bolla Eleonora Duse. La grande tragica, thick manuscript acquired by the Library of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 2023. The screenplay, an unpublished and unknown document, is put into context as a historiographical sign of the actress, connected to the broader Nino Bolla’s work, analyzed in its sequences and in regard to performing arts video documentation.

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Author Biography

Paola Bertolone, Sapienza University of Rome

PhD Paola Bertolone is an Associate Professor in Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome. Major research topics of her research are Eleonora Duse and Italian Theatre of late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries; Yiddish theatre, both from a linguistic and cultural approach; Alessandro Fersen’s research into anthropology and theatre and his work as a pedagogue and director; Performing Arts as Intangible Cultural Heritage, through museums and archives; Theatre photography. Recent publications are: Tommaso Le Pera. Un archivio fotografico per il teatro, Roma, Artemide, 2021; “Strade secondarie. Il documentario Alessandro Fersen. L’essere in scena, Dagli archivi a YouTube”, Connessioni remote, 4/2022; “Il Mnemodramma di Alessandro Fersen: un laboratorio della trasformazione”, Biblioteca Teatrale, 139/2023; “Istanti di partitura gestuale e fonti visive nelle regie liriche di Stefano Vizioli”, Suonare il palcoscenico. Conversazioni sulla regia lirica con Stefano Vizioli, ed. O. Jesurum, Roma, Artemide, 2024; “Triumphs and Laments by William Kentridge: Remains and Relics for an Elusive Archive”, Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance, ed. J. Green, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024; “I Teatrini di Luigi Rasi. Riflessioni sulle pratiche espositive dello spettacolo a partire dalle mostre di Luigi Rasi”, Ariel, 11/2024.

Published
2024-12-28
How to Cite
BertoloneP. (2024). The screenplay “Eleonora Duse. The Great Actress” by Nino Bolla. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (8), 548-570. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i8.11504
Issue
No 8 (2024): Simultaneity and polyphony. Choir voices in contemporary drama and the arts
Section
Scenari
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