A new essay on the Nobel Prize-winning Italian dramatist, Luigi Pirandello’s plays in the final ten years of his life, especially the dramas written for actress Marta Abba, will be released on March, 10.
Written by the professor and director, Martha Ribeiro, the starting point was the verification that, thanks to the actress, the two halves of Pirandellian feminine imagination - the holy mother and the prostitute – came to cohabitate in the same female image, that of the virtuous vamp: an erotically enchanted creature, although sexually unattainable.
Reviewing the current criticism, we verified that the writer's late production is the result of a violent interaction and mutual influence between biographic stimulus and artistic concerns.
When writing for the actress, the playwright certainly had the interpretation of his inspiring muse in mind, the exceptionally talented Marta Abba as the co-author of the new feminine profile developed by the author. On the other hand, by individualizing in Marta Abba all the female creatures, the playwright sees himself under a sign of predestination: Marta's attractive power over the Master, "his art's daughter", recovers an old phantom, the taboo-theme of Pirandello writing: the incestuous, fatherly fascination.
Thus, Pirandello creates an ambiguous feminine profile, related to the major movies icons of the '30s - Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich - pluralistic enough to assimilate theever-changing, contradictory style of the interpreter Marta Abba, translating and incorporating, at the same time, his own inner torment.
New Book Release:
LUIGI PIRANDELLO: A THEATER FOR MARTA ABBA
by MARTHA RIBEIRO
MARCH 10 , 7:30 PM
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