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Margaret Rose was kind enough to serve as a guest columnist in the latest issue of ScriptForward!, where gives us insight into new play development in Italy.
Margaret is a Scottish national who works as a professor in Milan, and actively pursues her career as a playwright in the UK and on the continent.
You can download the article here: Margaret Rose’s Article on New Play Development in Italy – SF! #26
Excerpt:
When Anne Hamilton wrote to me, asking for a short piece dealing with “the new play development process in Italy”, I immediately translated the word ‘process’ into a very definite plural. While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.
Associations for the support and development of playwriting are fairly recent and and thin on the ground. Teatro delle Donne. Centro Nazionale di Drammaturgia (Women’s Theatre. National Centre of Playwriting), founded in Florence in 1991, includes an archive for plays written by women (today numbering nearly 1,000). It also runs a cutting- edge theatre season at the Teatro Comunale Manzoni in Calenzano and in 2004 writer Dacia Maraini set up a National School of Playwriting at the theatre…
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