Students devote in-depth study to an Italian play, which they perform for an audience from Scandiano at the conclusion of the program. Attention to grammar, stylistics, and oral skills, combined with analysis of the text, character exploration, and acting techniques. This course offers an innovative cultural project on which students collaborate with local actors and acting students from the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese. This theatrical version gave immediacy to a rich and variegated Renaissance poem that inspired Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Milton, Cervantes, and others, and that remains entertaining and meaningful today. At the end of the program, students enrolled in this course will be invited by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, with most expenses paid, to perform the play in the province of Bari.
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