Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises (Nov 2022)
Un Molière italien. 1950-2000
Abstract
The fortune of Molière's theater on the Italian stage dates back to the second half of the 20th century. In the space of a few decades, the playwright, almost unknown to the general public, inspired the greatest Italian directors who, through his comedies, tackled the complex question of the staging of the classics in the contemporary world. The discovery of Molière filled, as Cesare Garboli had guessed, a gap in the Italian theatrical tradition, that of bourgeois comedy and related values absent, at the same time, in Italian society. At the same time, the need to adapt and update Molière's text in relation to the Italian theatrical language calls into question the translation choices and imposes new challenges on the acting. At the end of the century, we can see that Molière definitely entered the Italian theatrical repertoire.
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