Inhuman Humanity: On the Theater of Angela Di Maso

Authors

Andrea F. De Carlo - graduated in foreign languages and literature at the University of Salento (Italy) in 2004, with a dissertation on Bolesław Leśmian and the Russian Symbolism, and he was awarded a PhD degree at the same university in 2010, with a dissertation on Dante’s critical reception in 19th-century Poland. During the academic years 2006–2010 he taught Polish language and literature at the University of Salento, and in the academic years 2020–2021 taught Polish language at the Aldo Moro University of Bari. Since 2011 he has taught Polish language and literature at the Department of Literary, Linguistic, and Comparative Studies of “L’Orientale” University of Naples, where since 2021 he has been a researcher in Slavic studies.

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Angela Di Maso - born in Naples, is a graduate in philosophy, lecturer, publicist journalist, and musician, specializing in semiotics, singing and Gregorian music direction. She has flanked her concert activity with that of playwright and theater director, studying direction and acting at the University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with Gaetano Oliva, a student and actor of Jerzy Grotowski. She collaborates as dramaturge and director of opera theater for the European Music Foundation Pietà de’ Turchini. She is Subject Matter Expert in the chair of “History of Theater and Disciplines of the Performing Arts”—Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Naples Federico II. She is a lecturer in the “History of Music and Melodrama” at the European University LUETEC. She directs the editorial series Controscena, dedicated to contemporary Italian dramaturgy, published by the Divergenze. She collaborated with movie director Pupi Avati on the screenplay of Una festa da ballo (A Dance Party). Her dramas have been translated into English, Dutch, and Romanian. Her plays are performed both in Italy and abroad.

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