Regia Eretica. Il Novecento teatrale e i suoi doppi book presentation

With Marco De Marinis, Lorenzo Donati,  Raul Iaiza, Silvia Mei, Maria Dolores Pesce, Agata Tomšič

Raúl Iaiza, Argentine, resident in Italy since 1986. A graduate of the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, he practiced the musical profession until 1994. He directed Teatro La Madrugada from its foundation until 2010. He was assistant director to Eugenio Barba at Odin Teatret (Denmark) for eleven years (2000/11). Also at Odin Teatret, he developed the pedagogy of Training under the guidance of Torgeir Wethal (2000/10). For ten years, he directed Regula contra Regulam, the Educational project of the Grotowski Institute (Poland), in a pedagogical tandem with various guest masters from all over the world (2007/17). As a director, he has directed productions and co-productions in Italy and throughout the world: Switzerland, Poland, Argentina, South Korea, Romania, Spain, Austria. As a pedagogue, he is active in both theatrical and performative didactics in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Currently, he holds the chair of Actor Training at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan; he directs LAUDESI, Performing Arts Research Program. He is the Artistic Director of Regula Teatro. Together with Thomas Richards, Domenico Castaldo, Oliviero Ponte di Pino, and Marco De Marinis, he is the curator of Percorsi Nomadi/Ravvivare la ricerca teatrale nel XXI secolo.

Maria Dolores Pesce, scholar and theater critic, graduated in Aesthetics from DAMS at the University of Bologna with a thesis on the theatrical works of Edoardo Sanguineti. After serving for several years as a voluntary assistant for Luigi Gozzi’s university course (Methodology of Performance Criticism) at the same institution, she was a Contract Professor at the University of Turin from 2006 to 2012, holding the chair of History of Theater within the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. As a theater scholar, she has published numerous essays in academic journals such as Parol: Quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia, L’immagine Riflessa, the Teatro Akropolis journal, Ariel (from the Institute of Pirandellian Studies), and Studi di estetica (University of Bologna). She has also been invited to deliver keynote speeches at numerous conferences and seminars both in Italy and abroad. In her capacity as a theater critic, she is the Deputy Director of the online magazine Dramma.it and publishes articles and reviews almost daily across the most prominent Italian digital and print publications. She is a member of the editorial board of Sipario and contributes to Hystrio and La Falena.