La nuova critica e la recitazione

With «Nuova Critica» we intend to refer to a group of Italian critics – starting from Giuseppe Bartolucci, Ettore Capriolo, Edoardo Fadini and Franco Quadri , the organizers of the Convention for a New Theatre in Ivrea 1967 – who, in the 1960s, support and promote the New Theatre. The «Nuova Critica» starting point is the desire to create a system of interpretation capable of critically representing in the best possible way the linguistic revolution of artists like Carmelo Bene, Carlo Quartucci, Leo de Berardinis in Italy and the Living Theatre in the international one. Their target was to critically read the play in a new way, including all the languages of the stage to create a new standard of dramaturgy. In this context, acting is considered as one of the many signs of the play and is retraced back to the dimension of body and voice. Therefore it is not subject to an isolated critic focus but in an entirely new and global fashion, as the attention shiftsfrom the interpretation of the character to stage action.